Stories, pictures, videos, and tweets go viral all the time, but few end up being turned into award-winning movies that blur the line between comedy and drama. And even fewer pull off what was achieved in the 2021 A24 movie, Zola, a film that follows a young exotic dancer as she embarks on a road trip that will forever change her life, but only if it doesn’t kill her first.
As part of our ongoing partnership with Plex, where you can watch Zola streaming for free in May, as well as other A24 films like Moonlight (starting May 21), The Green Knight, and After Yang, we have put together a list of some of the most interesting behind-the-scenes facts about how the viral tweet thread known as #TheStory became one of the most riveting, stylistic, and at times, terrifying Black comedies in recent memory.
