While we’re talking about race, another interesting twist regarding Midsommar: We often think about anthropological studies as the white man exposing non-white customs to a white audience. This is a reversal.

Yeah! And honestly, I really thought about this. I couldn’t help but think about what it meant, how cool it would be to turn that on its head? At least just this one time, it’s not about the study of a culture of non-white people. It’s a black anthropologist exposing the undiscovered customs of white people. It’s interesting to throw that out into the public sphere. For me, that was really driving Josh.