Park City • With issues of women’s equality, sexual misconduct and political turmoil heavy on the movie world’s mind, Sundance Film Festival Director John Cooper said he wanted to start the 2018 edition with a movie that’s “fun to the point of sassy.”
Cooper delivered that to a receptive Park City audience Thursday with the comedy-drama “Blindspotting,” a raucous, rap-filled and often revealing story of male friendship on the rapidly gentrifying streets of Oakland, Calif.
Daveed Diggs, who co-starred and co-wrote with his longtime writing partner Rafael Casal, told the Eccles Center Theatre audience that “Blindspotting” was a nine-year journey from idea to finished film.