narrates a sequence from his film where Maverick, played by Russell Hornsby, teaches his children how to behave around the police. Transcript ‘The Hate U Give’ | Anatomy of a Scene George Tillman Jr. Since Starr had spent the bulk of “The Hate U Give” finding her voice, how would it look for her to lose it at this pivotal moment? Still, that scene with Khalil was meant to be mirrored later in the film, when a newly self-actualized Starr is the one who must explain Shakur’s intent to others. “If Khalil was saying ‘eff’ or bouncing around that word,” Tillman said, “it just wouldn’t have been authentic.” Tillman wanted to save his single usage of the full-blown word for a different first-act scene, in which Starr listens to Shakur as Khalil explains the rapper’s message. In one early scene, Starr’s father (Russell Hornsby) was supposed to use the expletive Tillman changed it to “eff,” reasoning that a father might want to soften his language around his daughter. To make it work, then, Tillman strategized. “As a filmmaker, you really want to be organic, but you also want people to see the film as much as possible.” “If we’re following this young girl’s point of view, I just felt like it really made it more universal to walk that line and make it for anyone under 13,” he said. Hailey is ultimately left crying on the ground by Starr before she storms away, effectively ending their friendship.For Tillman, whose previous films like “Soul Food” and “Men of Honor” have been mostly rated R, reaching a general audience was paramount.
Hailey also continued her defense of Khalil's killer by saying the hair brush he was reaching for before his death "looked like a weapon", prompting Starr to grab Hailey's hair brush from her backpack and threaten her with it, doing so to confront Hailey's blatant racism. Hailey becomes offended at Starr for calling her racist, only to later outright say Starr was "different" than Khalil, who she claimed probably would've been killed eventually due to his work in drug dealing. Hailey later confronts Starr at school, callously telling her she needed to get over Khalil's death and spurring Starr into confronting her friend on her blatant racism and hypocrisy regarding race. Starr's increased stance against the racism among their local police is met with disapproval of Hailey, who even unfollows Starr on Tumblr after she makes a post about another case of a Black man being shot to death by the police. In addition to using Khalil's death as an excuse to skip school with her other classmates, Hailey expresses a belief that the officer who killed Khalil was completely in the right and that Khalil was a drug dealer who got what he deserved, freely insulting him in Starr's presence. This is shown to be a result of Hailey's frequent racist comments, ones that Starr (who, like Khalil, is Black) becomes aware of following Khalil's death. While Hailey and Starr's friendship was a long one, Starr witnessing the death of her childhood friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer put a strain on their friendship. She was a student of prestigious private school Williamson Prep and the best friend of fellow student Starr Carter (the film's main protagonist). Hailey Grant (Sabrina Carpenter) is a minor villainess from the 2018 film The Hate U Give (based off the 2017 Angie Thomas book of the same title).