Janelle Monáe has spoken about how “triggering” it was to film her upcoming horror film Antebellum.In the film, the actress and singer portrays an author who is transported back in time to a reality in which she is an enslaved person.Monáe told Jennifer Aniston, Zendaya, Rose Byrne, Helena Bonham Carter and Reese Witherspoon during the Hollywood Reporter Drama Actress Roundtable.She said, “Oh, I brought all of my ancestors home with me.
We were filming most of the stuff at night on a plantation, and I felt everything. There were just certain conversations even at craft services that if I heard would be triggering for me.“I couldn’t even talk to my family sometimes.