Boots Riley

Armie Hammer has a supporting role as a psychopathic CEO in Boots Riley’s debut feature film Sorry to Bother You. But in his eyes, his character is not too far-fetched.

Boots Riley, the longtime radical activist and frontman of the rap group Coup, makes his auspicious film directing debut with Sorry to Bother You, a trenchant send-up of the often unspoken undercurrents of race and class in American society, which opened at Sundance and has been called many things, from “bonkers” to “bizarre,” and labeled both a “comedy” and “satire”. “I don’t like the word satire, because what does satire actually mean?” says Boots Riley.

Sorry to Bother You is a provocative and revolutionary comedy from the mind of Boots Riley, best-known as the lead vocalist for The Coup. The film was shot in Oakland in 2017 and released by Annapurna Pictures.