{"id":100264,"date":"2017-04-29T00:33:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T04:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100264"},"modified":"2017-04-29T00:33:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T04:33:16","slug":"moonlight-director-barry-jenkins-ready-to-return-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/29\/moonlight-director-barry-jenkins-ready-to-return-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Moonlight&#8217; director Barry Jenkins ready to return to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100265\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/13934973_865113430288305_6115456519896201218_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100265\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/13934973_865113430288305_6115456519896201218_n.jpg\" alt=\"Two months after his \u201cMoonlight\u201d pulled out a last-second best picture win at the Oscars, director Barry Jenkins says \u201cit's time to work.\u201d (Photo: Moonlight\/Facebook)\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/13934973_865113430288305_6115456519896201218_n.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/13934973_865113430288305_6115456519896201218_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/13934973_865113430288305_6115456519896201218_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/13934973_865113430288305_6115456519896201218_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two months after his \u201cMoonlight\u201d pulled out a last-second best picture win at the Oscars, director Barry Jenkins says \u201cit&#8217;s time to work.\u201d (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MoonlightMov\/photos\/a.864625103670471.1073741826.644501249016192\/865113430288305\/?type=1&amp;theater\">Moonlight\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Two months after his \u201cMoonlight\u201d pulled out a last-second best picture win at the Oscars, director Barry Jenkins says \u201cit&#8217;s time to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins was on the red carpet on Thursday to support the Netflix series \u201cDear White People.\u201d He directed an episode of the series, adapted from the movie of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins said after the Oscars he spent a month in Mexico and went to the Mayan ruins.<\/p>\n<p>Now that he&#8217;s back, he&#8217;s due to start working on an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel \u201cUnderground Railroad\u201d for Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>He said he&#8217;s also still in contact with his \u201cMoonlight\u201d cast, which he calls his family. He says they sometimes ask for advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Two months after his \u201cMoonlight\u201d pulled out a last-second best picture win at the Oscars, director Barry &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[9800],"class_list":["post-100264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-moonlight","mauthors-ryan-pearson","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}