#SinnersMovie director Ryan Coogler said "each time I've made a film it's become more and more personal," and this is his most personal film yet.

"With [Sinners], I was really digging into two relationships; my maternal grandfather, who I never met, he died about a year before I was born but he was from Merrill, Mississippi and eventually moved to Oakland, married my grandmother, and actually built the house that our whole family wass based out of in Oakland.

"And I had a uncle named Uncle James who I came up with my whole life. He actually passed away while I was in post-production on Creed. He was from another town in Mississippi and he wouldn't really talk about Mississippi unless he was listening to the Blues, unless he had a little sip of whiskey, he would reminisce. I miss him profoundly.

"With this film, I got a chance to dig into my own ancestral history here in the States."
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