any time you have a black protoganist at the center of a movie, there is a certain amount of trepidatione people going to be? it is not usually what we'll see. prejudice is borne out of a fear of the unknown. so films like this have to overcome prejudice. which we don't see much of this. this is guess who is coming to dinner 50 years ago? i don't know, and it literally was 50 years ago this year. and there are people still who find interracial relationships problematic. and so if you're a studio, or financing it, the notion is i'm not sure people want to see that. >> is that more problems for domestic box office, international box office or both? >> it's about gate keepers, i don't think it's the audience, but i think it's about the people who run our industry whether they're here or internationally and them keeping an eye on their bottom line and therefore, you know, constantly wanting to go back to the well of what works time and time again. so any time you do something a little bit different you're running a risk. but what is art if it's not the desire and the necessity to show me som