Bob Marley One Love Jamaica Premiere Kingsley Ben-Adir Interview

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Star actor Kingsley Ben-Adir who takes on the role of legendary musician Bob Marley describes the meaning of Bob Marley’s music and being a part of the movie “Bob Marley: One love” in his interview at the Jamaican premiere. Check it out.

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00:00 Bob was trying to tap into sound a little bit higher, you know, and yeah, his

00:06 message, to re-engage with the message of the music and his lyrics really, you know,

00:10 and to hear what he's saying. I think it's a really great moment for the movie to

00:14 come out.

00:15 Bob's not, it's not, he's not simple. There's a huge, there's a huge

00:19 backstory there and I want to make sure that I understood all of it. But it's not

00:23 just Bob, it's anytime I take a role. I want to work, you know what I mean, you gotta go to

00:27 work. And when you start studying Bob, you realize he's on working. So like, if you

00:32 want to get into Bob's character, you have to understand that man was on work.

00:37 He was, he was a grafter and his whole life was about music and creating music and

00:43 the energy he put into creating them songs that we all now get to enjoy. We get to

00:48 receive the benefits of his genius and his creation. So you just gotta get up and get

00:52 on it. Get up and get on it and do the work and just trust that all of the Jamaican

00:58 cast, all of the family, all of Bob's friends, all the love they put into this and all of

01:03 the belief they put into the project. Like this was a communal thing, you know, I've

01:08 never been a part of a project where the creation of something was to do with

01:14 everyone, you know, all of the input. And I had to ask a lot of questions because I'm

01:19 now with Jamaicans every day. I'd be like, "How Bob say this? How Bob say that? How Bob

01:22 say this? How Bob say that?" You know, and Neville Garrick, Bob's close friend who we

01:26 sadly lost. I was with him every day, you know, so it was just a constant conversation

01:33 and just striving to try and just do the best we can with each day and, you know, and then

01:40 just trust that the work will come through.

01:42 Shona was the light, she's the light of this film and she was the light of my process and

01:48 she... LaShona and I had the huge benefit of meeting six months before we started. So

01:54 we were talking about the relationship and the characters for six months before we started

01:58 shooting. So we had a huge head start and LaShona, she's brilliant in our preparation

02:04 and in our work speaks for itself. So we just put our heads together and really tried to

02:10 bring as much dignity and that feeling of unconditional love to it, you know, and like

02:16 sometimes the unspoken says more. So we speak about that a lot. Sometimes you don't need

02:20 to say too much to feel like, to create a feeling. So we worked on that.

02:27 One love, one heart, one destiny, you know?

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