When Magazine Dreams writer and director Elijah Bynum began to conceptualize Killian Maddox, the film’s protagonist—a socially inept, lonely Black man whose primary focus in life appears to be becoming a professional bodybuilder, and therefore one day, appear on the cover of a magazine—he was taking on a character he thought of as rare. “I […]
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