NY: One of the things I wanted to do in both the books was just show a relationship between the kids and the parents, because I think a lot of the times in YA books the parents are missing. How did you play that in between place for him? In your other book, The Sun Is Also A Star, the main character's father was lovely because he spoke about the immigrant story. TV: Both of your novels have a central love story as the foundation, but the periphery relationships are as captivating as your focus. We’re really lucky that we were able to find her. Stella’s first movie was called Jean of the Joneses and it’s great! It’s about a middle-class Jamaican family in Canada, it’s really funny and the style was something that we all admired. I think that was definitely a factor in the decision. “Let’s find a female director, let’s find someone that’s black.” Increasing diversity across all aspects of media is very important to me, and important to the producers too. NY: Mostly the producers decided that, but it was something that was on all our minds. TV: How important do you think it is having a black woman direct Everything, Everything? Was that a decision you had any involvement in?
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