Kingsley Ben-Adir on playing music legend Bob Marley – BBC

Kingsley Ben-Adir on playing music legend Bob Marley – BBC

I mean obviously playing somethingone like this there’s a real responsibility but because his family were there was that extra pressure or helpful looking back I’m like it was fear I just didn’t know how scared I was but you know when you’re scared you go

When I’m scared I I just go well I just worked you know so I was just kind of working um but it was a weird it was because they they supported the decision but I guess the lead up to that first day of shooting I I mean half the are behind

The Mona wow and Ziggy’s behind the dop and Neville Garrick Bob’s close friend who was there at the time is rolling the spliff and having his breakfast behind the dop yeah and so it was pretty like you know so but I think after lunch it kind of dropped in and but also but

Filming in Jamaica there must have been people in the the X and stuff who had been at the concerts and oh yeah no no they were everywhere I mean people like Neville Neville Garrett who was our historical advisor was in the room with Bob in Bassy when he was composing the

Album writing down the lyrics to the songs and never was there every day on set so if there was ever any questions it’s that’s who you asked you know and like every Sunday never one I we just would jump on the phone and we just walk

And talk for a couple of hours and it was all about trying to cuz Bob’s such an icon you know he’s a hero to so many people the conversations were really about trying to find out who he was as a as a man as a father and like what his

Struggles were you know that was the what I discovered or what I guess became really interesting was that Bob really struggled through that time you know he was going through a lot and um and yeah yeah but it’s the movie is about the creation of the album

Kingsley Ben-Adir talks about the experience of playing Bob Marley and learning what he was like as a person from his friends and family.

Together on Graham’s sofa: great Irish actors Paul Mescal (Normal People) and Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag), co-starring in the critically acclaimed fantasy romance All of Us Strangers; star of Vera and Peaky Blinders, Kingsley Ben-Adir, taking the lead in new biopic Bob Marley: One Love; and stage and screen star Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Only Murders in the Building), who stars in Alexander Payne’s new comedy The Holdovers. The Last Dinner Party perform their single Nothing Matters.

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