(The Root) — Tonight on his PBS program, host Tavis Smiley speaks to Mary Williams, the African-American writer whose book, The Lost Daughter, chronicles her adoption by actress Jane Fonda.
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Check out this clip, in which Smiley asks whether the story of how Fonda “saved” Williams could lend itself to a Hollywood film, and whether such a project would be seen as just another The Blind Side-type movie “about another black child saved by some white people.”
“Maybe more black people should reach out,” Fonda says in a tense moment. She then adds, “And maybe they do, and we just don’t know.”
The conversation airs Tuesday night on Tavis Smiley on PBS. For TV listings, visit pbs.org/tavis.
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