Though an official release date hasn't been announced or whether or not the film will go to the theaters or straight to DVD, but Director Bill Duke's down-low film, 'Cover', is slated to come out this year. The film stars Vivica A. Fox, Paula Jai Parker, Leon, Lou Gossett Jr., Mya, Roger Guenveur Smith, Aujanue Ellis, Victoria Platt and Patti Labelle.
I spoke to Mr. Duke sometime back when he was just starting to put this film together but hadn't cast the film yet.
Bill Duke: I'm producing and directing my own movie called "Cover". It's about a young woman who comes from Atlanta with her daughter and husband and they come to LA and he's a young doctor. He has his own practice and she helps him. She's a Christian woman and after a certain point, the practice grows beyond their wildest dreams. They move to the Palisades and have a great house and in the middle of this, she finds out that her husband just viciously betrayed her. The story is how she deals with it and her redemption and also his redemption. It's also a murder mystery and who killed a certain person. It's very Hitchcockian style-wise. As the story goes along, she tells her story in a police station and we go back and forth between interrogation and the real story that happen. The screenplay is by Aaron Rahsaan Thomas.
What led you to this project?
BD: Well, a couple of things. AIDS is a very, very, very vicious disease, particularly in the black community. Black women are the number one victims of AIDS in our country right now. It's like an epidemic proportion and surely after I got involved in the project, my goddaughter came to the family and told us that she was HIV positive and she's been married for 12 years. So, that's the betrayal we're talking about.
Gotta it to Vivica Fox. She's certainly working hard these days, appearing on the big and small screen with 'Motives 2', 'The Salon', and she's about to shoot 'Three Can Play That Game', and 'Major Movie Star' with Jessica Simpson and Jill Marie Jones. As for Mya, I haven't seen her in a film since she did her thing in the Oscar winning film 'Chicago'.
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By: Briea on 7/24/2007 12:27PM
MYA where have you been hiding? To Win A Free Swarovski Crystal T-Shirt visit http://executees.net
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By: Zuri Kyle Chambers on 7/26/2007 7:24AM
I will support it just because Patti's apart of it!! Not much of a Vivica Foxx fan at all and who's Mya?
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By: Lorenzo on 7/26/2007 8:39AM
Mya is a vocal artist and a good one at that. Kinda sorta like a combination of soft rap and R & B. She is good but very underrated. She is not being given her due credit if you ask me.
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By: Dumaine on 7/26/2007 9:26AM
At least it looks better than "WHo's your caddie"-I think that this film will encourage black male youths to see and start into homosexualaity-but blacks love low level subject matters and Oprah's white producers are to thank for this new paranoia but it will be interesting to see how this black man bashing goes. Wouldnt pay to see at the theatre so I hope they plan on putting this on DVD.
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By: Dumaine on 7/26/2007 9:28AM
This film is a rip off from a French film that is about seven years old. SO, many European-DL films are around-that this isnt anything new. The husband gets killed, the wife investigates and finds a male lover.
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By: Annajean on 7/26/2007 10:47AM
Why are black men afraid to discuss any issue pertaining to their lifestyles, Black women love Black men and the DL is another threat to the black family,
our men are with white women, dl, in jail,uneducated, Yes a good man is hard to find and when you do find a good man is he committed to a one on one relationship, or because he is such a prized possession and he knows it, he can play the field. I will support this film because I want to see it. OPRAH did not start the DL
paranoia. If you read check out books written by a black man E. Lynn Harris who know's all about the DL.
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By: ranarain on 7/30/2007 6:07PM
Whatever film thats has black actors and actress in it, I will suppport, even if it's not good...
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By: shequida on 7/26/2007 11:18AM
I will only see the film when it is on DVD. I will not go to the movies to see it. I love Mya and she is not at all given all the credit that she deserves. She is a very talented singer in my opinion.
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By: SR on 7/26/2007 1:23PM
These are decent women who are just trying to make a living. I wish them the best in this movie.
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By: ted donahue on 7/26/2007 1:40PM
I THINK THAT THE SUBJECT MATTER IS INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE,AND I THINK THE COMMENT MADE BY #4 IS OUT OF CONTEXT FOR THE SUBJECT. OPRAH DID'T START THIS, SHE INFORMED EVERYONE OF IT. SO WHAT IF THE WHITE PRODUCER PUT IT OUT THERE, IT NEEDED TO BE PUT ON THE TALK CIRCUIT. AND ALSO ANYTHING BILL DUKES DOES IS SO PASSIONATE AND REAL. THE MAN IS A CREDIT TO OUR CULTURE AND TO HOLLYWOOD. AND I JUST LOVE PAULA JAI PARKER. SHE COULD KISS ME ANYDAY. GOOD LUCK TO BILL AND ALL THAT PARTICIPATE IN THE FILM. PEACE
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