I found an interview with Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson talking about the music of Sinners, and there's a very touching part about how the mid-credits scene came to be. So, spoilers below:
The final scene in the film, technically a post-credits scene, was actually the first one shot chronologically. Coogler wanted to show a more recent link to the storyās century-old events, and he really wanted his uncleās favorite blues musician, Buddy Guy, to be involved. But he quickly learned that Guy, now in his late 80s, hadnāt been to a theater since the āfish movie,ā a.k.a. āJaws,ā and he despaired of his chances.
Still, he arranged to go see Guy play in Chicago.
āI get to the show,ā says Coogler, āand his whole family is in the backstage room ā his grandkids. And theyāre like, āOh, cool, weāre going to bring you to see our grandpa.ā And me and Zinzi go in there and sit down, and heās like, āYo, man.āā
āIām not a movie guy,ā the bluesman said, in Cooglerās retelling of this momentous meeting, ābut my kids love your movies and they tell me that I gotta meet with you. So Iām here ā whatever you need. You want me to sing? Iāll sing. You want me to act? Iām on for the work. But I got you.ā
āI pitched him what the movie was,ā Coogler continues, āand he told me his life story about being a sharecropper as a kid and going up to Chicago and trying to learn how to play. I broke down crying, because everything I had just written in the script, this dude lived.ā
āOutside of the supernatural stuff,ā Coogler clarifies.
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