Paramount Pictures presented a new preview of Bob Marley biopic whose premiere will take place next 14 February 2024.
This new trailer shows the British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir, who personifies the iconic Jamaican musician singing Redemption Song before a bonfire with his children and Rita (Lashana Lynch), in addition to images of massive concerts and also in the recording studio with The Wailers.
Likewise, it shows a representation of a sequence of the attack that occurred in December 1976, when a group of subjects entered Bob's house and shot him and those present, leaving him injured along with Rita, and his manager, Don Taylor.
“Reggae is the music of the people”, “You can't separate the music from the message” O “Reggae came to unite the people”, are some of the phrases that the actor replicates during this trailer that lasts just under three minutes and that in just over 24 hours accumulate more of 5 million views on YouTube.
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Kingley Ben-Adir “recruited” Jamaicans to learn Patuá
The choice of the British actor to play Bob Marley generated multiple criticisms on the island, mainly due to considerations regarding its ability to replicate the patuá (patois) Jamaican.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ben-Adir, who had previously impersonated Malcolm X and Barack Obama, He assured that he sought help from Jamaicans while he was learning Patuá to prepare for his main role in the film.
The actor maintained that he had carefully studied more than 50 rare archival interviews of Marley to absorb as much of his patuá as possible and transcribed them over the course of several months.
“I recruited Jamaicans to come to my house and help me translate the parts I didn't understand and We ended up with this document that was hundreds of pages of Bob's language, written phonetically”, Ben-Adir said to the aforementioned publication.
He also admitted that he learned to sing and play the guitar for this role and performed all the songs with his own voice during filming although “not necessarily good all the time” and he admitted that it destroyed him “the ears of many people for many days”.
The final edition combines the actor's voice with Marley's archival recordings and Ben-Adir himself acknowledges that “Bob is not someone you can choreograph or copy. Their singing and dancing come from an internal experience, so you really have to find your own version of that for yourself”.
