Why Glover once cancelled shoot
After he heard shots being fired in Georgia, actor Donald Glover once cancelled a night of filming for TV series Atlanta.
The actor, who both stars in and has created the show, said he generally feels safe shooting in the city, but the team was disturbed when they heard distinct sound of guns at a distance.
“It felt like we could walk through the hood and people knew who we were... (Then one night) shots started popping off. Like, ‘Pop, pop, pop, pop.’ (We waited, then heard return fire).
“Sometimes you hear a gunshot where you know it’s f***ing close,” Glover told Esquire magazine.
The 34-year-old actorsinger added that calling off the shoot was a mark of “respect” to the raciallycharged city of Georgia.
“That’s part of the respect. If you go in the ocean, you have to respect the ocean. You know that you can drown. I don’t want people to think life is a f***ing Disneyland and we’re working, like, ‘Isn’t it cool that people live this way?’ It’s not,” he said.