Cephas Jones, who had a small part in the original film, now takes center stage, on Sunday capping off a whirlwind week of Blindspotting events while her fiancé Anthony Ramos also had the biggest few days of his career with the release of In The Heights.
While the movie took a masculine view, “This is more about how the prison system affects the families outside — not just the prisoner inside but the family outside, and specifically through the women’s eyes,” Cephas Jones said, and in revisiting these problems within the justice and police system specifically for people of color, “hopefully people can have some compassion and understanding of what we’re talking about.
The premiere event, which included costars Helen Hunt, Jaylen Barron, Candace Nicholas-Lippman and Benjamin Earl Turner, as well as some fatherly support from Ron Cephas Jones, took over Hollywood Forever Cemetery with food trucks and socially distanced guest pods.