#Opus director Mark Anthony Green says that “it was very, very important to me that [the character] Ariel was a young Black woman who didn’t do anything stupid.” “It’s really hard to make a horror film and not have somebody fall when they’re running. There’s a reason why you do that. It isn’t so much that people want characters to be dumb, but if they’re intelligent, it’s very hard to travel. But I look at this character, I look at the Black women in my life, and I just thought, ‘Man, how cool would it be if we landed the plane and she never made a dumb decision?’ She’s young, she’s flawed, but she never in this moment does something that you’re like, ‘Oh, that was stupid,’ and takes you out of it. That was a really important thing to me.” t.co/eY5rEns6Lg