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- It's a viral Twitter thread written by a teenager that simply became known to its thousands of fans as #TheStory. Now, that string of 148 tweets, written in 2015 by 19 year-old Detroit waitress A'Ziah King, known as Zola, about a wild Florida road trip, has been made into a feature film, also entitled Zola.
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Jun 9, 2021 · Five years after she lit up Twitter with her tale of a strip-club road trip gone awry, A’ziah “Zola” King’s story has become a critically acclaimed movie. Now she’s ready to make it her ...
Jun 30, 2021 · A’Ziah “Zola” King separates fact from fiction about “Zola,” the movie inspired by her 2015 Twitter thread about an adventure involving sex work, guns, and violence.
- What Was It Like to Have This Kind of Role on The Film?
- How Important Was It to You That The Movie Retained The Spirit of Your Story?
- Well, All The Responses Were Happening in Real Time!
- Do You Have Any More Plans For Writing, Both on and Off Twitter?
Janicza really wanted to make sure that she did it justice and kept it as authentic as possible. We began talking on the phone all the time. I didn’t end up actually going to the set because I was pregnant. So she’d FaceTime me and walk me through everything she was thinking. Same thing with Taylour [Paige]—she asked for my blessing before even mov...
That was the main thing for me. Because, you know, we already have a lot of misrepresentation when it comes to sex work. It’s either a bit too glamorized or a bit too dehumanized. So I think that keeping it accurate to my actual experience was the most necessary thing. These experiences are taboo still, but it’s such a norm, this is something that ...
Right, everyone got to really interact with it! I think that’s another thing that makes it such a big deal. And so close to everyone’s hearts, because they remember really being a part. It’s like they’ve been on this journey too. Everyone remembers where they were and what they said. And I think that makes it a moment.
I would love to. I’m not necessarily, I don’t think, a playwright. But I do really enjoy writing. And I have a lot of experiences that I think are worth sharing. So I would definitely love to continue writing in some way or producing in some way. That is the goal. I guess I’m good at it!
- Cady Lang
Jun 29, 2021 · Directed by Janicza Bravo and written by Bravo and Slave Play author Jeremy O. Harris, the film tells the story of how King (Taylour Paige) became fast friends with stripper Jessica (renamed...
Nov 17, 2015 · Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted. An exclusive account of how Aziah "Zola" Wells' road trip to Florida with an exotic dancer, a boyfriend and a...
On October 27 2015, A’Ziah ‘Zola’ King tweeted four photos of herself with her (as we’d soon learn) former friend Jessica, along with the intriguing opening lines: “Y’all wanna hear a ...
Jun 30, 2021 · More than five years after A’Ziah King’s viral Twitter thread about a truly memorable trip to Florida, the film inspired by her story, Zola, finally debuted in June 2021.
