Exclusive: Editor Terilyn A. Shropshire talks Twisters and working with director Lee Isaac Chung
Currently in theaters is the disaster film Twisters, directed by Lee Isaac Chung and and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, Sasha Lane, Harry Hadden-Patton, David Corenswet, Daryl McCormack, Tunde Adebimpe, Katy O’Brian, Nik Dodani, Kiernan Shipka, and Paul Scheer.
Edited by Terilyn A. Shropshire, the film opened #1 at the box office with a robust $81M, defying all expectations from analysts.
As of July 24, the film has crossed the $100M mark domestically, Shropshire joins Kelley Dixon (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) as Black female editors to achieve this mark. Other Black editors to have a film gross $100M domestically was George Bowers with 1992’s A League of Their Own and 1991’s Sleeping with the Enemy.
Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Golden Globe nominee Anthony Ramos, In the Heights) to test a groundbreaking new tracking system.
There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Glen Powell), the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better. As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.
For over two decades Shropshire has contributed her work to the big and small screen, working with acclaimed directors Kasi Lemmons and Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Ava DuVernay. Some of her film and TV credits include Eve’s Bayou, Love & Basketball, Biker Boyz, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Talk To Me, The Secret of Bees, Beyond The Lights, When They See Us, The Old Guard, Bruised, Women of the Movement, and The Woman King.
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales spoke with Shropshire about editing Twisters and working with director Lee Isaac Chung.
