Did you specifically choose to do this episode? Or was this just the one that worked out schedule-wise?
No, they just handed it to me. They handed me a script and said, “Hey, this is what we want you to do,” and I said, “Cool.” They just picked the things that they thought would be right, the best script. It was so exciting for me because this is only the second time I’ve done television. I did Empire last year and then this.
John Singleton opens up about the episode of ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson’ that he directed.
Source: John Singleton ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson’ Interview | Complex