Biopic on the King of Reggae Bob Marley in Jan. Music, politics, commitment to peace

“There’s a war going on. You can’t separate the music from the message.” “And what’s the message?” “Pace.” The biopic based on the king of reggae will hit Italian cinemas in January. Bob Marley: One Love It chronicles the life and music of an icon who continues to inspire generations through his message of love and unity. Produced in association with and starring the Marley family Kingsley Ben-Adir (which Obama and Malcolm X have already become) starring the legendary musician and Lashana Lynch as his wife, Rita, directed the film Reinaldo Marcus Green (Former director of the Williams sisters’ father biopic with Will Smith, a winning family

The film traces the musical, humanitarian and political journey of the musician. Originally from Jamaica, his career began with The Wailers in 1963 and continued solo more than a decade later in 1974. The songs with which he left his mark, before he died of cancer in 1981 at the age of 36, included. Jammin, shake it up, get up, stand up, Buffalo Soldiers And redemption Song many of which will be on the soundtrack. His son Ziggy, his wife Rita and daughter Cedella are involved in the project and it’s clear from the first images that it’s going to be a powerful film. And if it wins the hearts of Marley’s fans, then most of the responsibility will fall on the hero’s shoulders.

Thirty-five-year-old, Englishman of Caribbean descent, Kingsley Ben-Adir has assembled an array of extraordinary historical figures and is able to give depth and humanity to each. It was Malcolm X, the famous African-American rights activist, who was executed for his views at the age of just 39. It was Barack Obama, the first black president, the 44th president in the history of the United States.

Lots of theatre, lots of TV series (English detective story). Truthsecond season of Oyea chapter of dystopian Soulmates, Peaky Blinders And high fidelity), but it is with cinema that Kingsley Ben-Adir has achieved notoriety. An English father and an immigrant mother from the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago, Kingsley realized at the age of sixteen that acting was his destiny: “I went to see In America – The Dream That Wasn’t Of Jim Sheridan And I realized that story stayed with me after the screening, I certainly wouldn’t have imagined it could become a job – they told us a while back – as I grew up, able to make cinema The idea of ​​being on television was of great value, I saw it as an opportunity to really change my destiny… It really felt like a dream”.

Growing up in the popular Kentish Town district of London, his vocation was not immediately apparent: “It took me a while to put the pieces of the puzzle together because as a teenager I wasn’t the intellectual or artistic type. I was what he Loved partying, going out with friends and girls and so when I was so deeply involved in cinema, in front of a film that made me cry, it was strange at first, a real shock”. On the other hand, in his own high school, students who would later go to Oxford lived together with other people who would later end up in prison.

Concentration problems were high for the young Kingsley and for this reason he was directed towards acting courses in high school. Instead of attending university after graduation, she preferred theater school, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, from which she graduated. After working in a bar and with children with special needs for a while, he began to fulfill his theater commitments one after the other, doing nine plays in only three years. “I think the most important thing is to reach the edge of the cliff, to reach the point of falling and maybe break your nose. It’s the image that comes to mind for the theater experience but it can also be seen in cinema, television It applies. Every time you get into a character or a scene, I think you have to go further because when you get down to it, you get the magic.”