Focus Features
It took ages for twin creative partners Adamma and Adanne Ebo to find just the right song for a particular car scene in their stunning debut feature, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. For weeks, stars Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall, who play an embattled megachurch pastor and his devoted wife, kept asking the sisters about it. Would they be going buck wild to an OutKast song? Maybe something by Ludacris?
It was a tricky choice, the Ebo sisters explained to The Daily Beast in a recent joint interview. First, the song needed to capture a specific era. As Adamma explained, the sisters “wanted this to feel like the time period when we were growing up and going to church.” (They were born in 1991.) The writer-director also wanted us to see these oh-so-righteous religious leaders listening to something extremely secular.
As one might imagine, the day Adamma and Adanne finally got to reveal their song choice was a big one. “We were so hype,” said producer Adanne. “We were like, it’s gonna be ‘Knuck If You Buck!’”