The series tries to show how a sport-mad teenager became a civil rights figurehead.
When American football star Colin Kaepernick took the knee during a national anthem, he became an overnight symbol of the protest and division over race in the US. He has now worked with Netflix to show what set a sport-mad teenager on the path to becoming a civil rights standard bearer.
That's how the story is told in the first episode of Colin In Black and White, a bio-series telling the origin story of Kaepernick, before he became a star quarterback and then a modern-day protest figurehead after taking the knee in 2016. "The foundational elements of becoming who you are, the making of a singular American icon, the making of a justice warrior - what are the things that make that up?The six-part series, which landed on Netflix on Friday, contains a string of relatively small things that are presented as being significant in hindsight.
DuVernay interviewed Kaepernick about his youth to settle on the storylines. Despite the real Kaepernick's close involvement in the series, its 18-year-old star Jaden Michael says he "didn't spend a lot of time" with the man he's portraying.Image caption,"I think the important part was to separate the Colin that we know today and young Colin, because those are two very different people.
Michael says he knows what it's like to have to prove yourself when you're starting out - himself in acting, as Kaepernick did in sport.The real Kaepernick watches his fictionalised younger self in the series
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