Mario Van Peebles, the director of "Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song," talks about how difficult it was to make his father Melvin's 1971 movie, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song." As his father in the film, Van Peebles gives an unflinching depiction of Melvin's brazen and occasionally dishonest behavior on set, including questionable actions such as forging fraudulent checks, duping a local fire department, and allowing his son, Mario, to shoot explicit sex scenes at the age of 11.
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Mario Van Peebles, the director of "Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song," talks about how difficult it was to make his father Melvin's 1971 movie, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song." As his father in the film, Van Peebles gives an unflinching depiction of Melvin's brazen and occasionally dishonest behavior on set, including questionable actions such as forging fraudulent checks, duping a local fire department, and allowing his son, Mario, to shoot explicit sex scenes at the age of 11.
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