Jonathan Majors can hardly remember a time when he wasnt impacted by the work ofSpike Lee.
We were watching it over and over and over and over again.
Malcolm X was a superhero, thereforeDenzel Washingtonis a fing superhero.
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As a nine-year-old kid wanting to be a superhero, I wanted to be Malcolm X.
Then, before he knew it, the prolific filmmaker asked him if he had a passport.
Giving Lee the affirmative, the director continued to unveil his intentions through a line of questioning.
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‘Do I know whoDelroy Lindois?’
Yeah, absolutely," Majors recalls.
“‘Well, he plays your father.'”
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It’s great to be picked, but then even more when it feels particular notes the actor.
David carries the youth, he’s us.
He’s visceral, he’s a body, but he’s also so full of heart and light.
He’s the guy who has a different experience from the other fellows.
One such moment arrives when the film first introduces David.
But the intimacy, it becomes so deep.
Where I walk in on him.
So that chemistry had activated offscreen.
It’s a very classical vehicle to do that, the mask.
That hat carried a certain amount of values.
What has mostly gone unnoticed though is the “mask” David wears.
There’s so much we understand, but we didn’t spend too much time talking about it.
Sometimes the best thing to do is just to sit at your father’s knee.
Majors elaborates, noting It’s not just what happens in the scene.
It’s how you carry yourself on set.
The young breakout has a different appreciation for the innovative Black filmmakers he has gotten to work with.
I never want to make something for the sake of making it.
I’m not here to have fun.
It’s very hard work.
However, I find the work extremely pleasurable.
So the higher the level of difficulty, the higher risk, the better reward.
I’m on the shoulders of Delroy Lindo, right?
And he’ll come in and he’ll Lindo this s out of it.
Not only were we there, but we were killing the game.
We were out-cowboying cowboys, jokes a hype Majors.
John Wayne, what?
My way of protesting and speaking out, because primarily we’re equipped with the film.
This film speaks out and does that, he shares.
