With photography just weeks away, the production encountered its biggest hurdle when a sequence that was to have filmed in Puerto Rico - which Tish’s mother (played by Regina King) visits in a desperate effort to prove her future son-in-law’s innocence - had to be relocated to the Dominican Republic after Hurricane Maria. And when it did, he then decided to gamble with the film’s casting, entrusting its central role of Tish not to an established star but to a total newcomer, KiKi Layne, 26, a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University, making her film debut.
To begin with, Jenkins wrote the screenplay - while on that same summer 2013 visit to Europe during which he wrote Moonlight - without knowing whether Baldwin’s very protective estate would approve a film version. Despite the success of Moonlight, which grossed more than $65 million worldwide, bringing Beale Street to the screen would involve some daring leaps of faith.
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