’12 Years a Slave’: An Oral History
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 8, 2023
“So, what do you want to do next?”
The question shadowed the director Steve McQueen’s first tour of Hollywood, in late summer 2008. His debut film, “Hunger,” a mesmerizing and unsettling character study of the Irish revolutionary Bobby Sands, had electrified audiences in Cannes that May and won the prize for best first feature. In rounds of meetings in Los Angeles — McQueen’s first time in the . . .
