How the Zola Cast Creators Turned a Viral Tweet Thread Into Summer s Most Talked About Movie

You probably remember where you were the first time you came across Aziah Kings Internetexploding story about why she and this bh here fell out. Back in 2015, Kings roadtripgoneWTF tale a seemingly harmless trip to Florida takes some incredibly wild and potentially harmful turns played out in 148 Tweets sent from Kings Zola handle and gave new meaning to the word viral. Seriously, for a while there Zola, Aziah and this white bh she met at Hooters (that would be Jessica) were all anyone on the Internet could talk about. And so naturally someone had to make a movie about it. This month, Zola, cowritten and directed by Janicza Bravo, finally arrives in theaters on a wave of buzz thanks to its inventive direction, razorsharp and hilarious script (cowritten by Tonywinning Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris), and starmaking performances from Taylour Paige as Zola, Riley Keough as Stefani (a fictionalized Jessica), as well as Nicholas Braun, and Colman Domingo. Ahead of the movi