'Hearts Beat Loud's' Kiersey Clemons and Sasha Lane can't be boxed in
by Tre'vell Anderson, Los Angeles Times
Jun 12, 2018
5 minutes
Kiersey Clemons remembers the moment she discovered who Sasha Lane was. It was late 2016, and she was walking the New York streets on her way to Whole Foods. In passing a movie theater, she stopped in her tracks, mesmerized by a poster outside. It was of a brown girl with dreadlocks, her hands thrown into the air. She faintly recalls some American flag-like colors on it.
"I was like, 'Who the ... is that? She looks like me. I have to go see that,'" she said.
Clemons went directly into the theater to watch "American Honey," Lane's acting debut about a teenager who joins a band of misfits as they trek across the Midwest.
"I was on the edge of my seat watching this movie," she said, "and
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