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Ryan Coogler on ‘Sinners,’ Chadwick Boseman and Why He Declined to Join the Academy

The director on what he’s thinking of post-“Sinners,” how the loss of Chadwick Boseman affected him and why he turned down the invitation to join the academy.

© Ariel Fisher for The New York Times

Coogler said he couldn’t engage with his work “as the kid whose dreams were to come to Hollywood and make movies. I have to engage with it as a professional shepherd of the story.”
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