Director Ava DuVernay Met Rock Icon Bono And We’re Still Swooning

by Shine My Crown Staff May 31, 2018

Cinema queen Ava DuVernay has season three of Queen Sugar premiering TONIGHT for the second night on #OWNTV…but over the weekend, she met recording megastar Bono and posted about it on IG. Her love for the U2 frontman and his band runs deep, all the way to inspiring her own films. This may seem like an unlikely pair, but we’d love to see them work together, since they have a passion for social justice and emotional storytelling. Check out @ava’s awesome post here:

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I have loved Bono and U2 since I was a girl. I’ve been guarded and guided by their work in many moments of my life. I first learned about human rights and activism, not through Martin Luther King as he was blandly taught in school, but through the passion of Bono’s voice singing of the civil rights icon in the song PRIDE. I named my first narrative film, I WILL FOLLOW, after their song that meant so much to me and my Aunt Denise. She was the one who first introduced me to their music. I played their song BAD on the day I buried her and it helped me lift my head as I drove to the funeral, like a balm for my wounded heart. My favorite all-time song of U2 is DROWNING MAN. It’s not a hit song. It’s a heart song. And it lives in mine. In the song, Bono sings the words: “take my hand.” A moment before this picture was snapped, he reached over and took mine in his. I was breathless and speechless. He and Edge were everything a fan wishes their hero will be upon meeting them. Every single thing. My true thanks to all who made the moment possible, especially my friend @Oprah, who knows my heart and that this would make it shine and shimmer and sing. It did. In more ways than I can express. It’s a beautiful day. xo

A post shared by Ava DuVernay (@ava) on May 27, 2018 at 12:46pm PDT

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