Star Actress Lashana Lynch talks about doing research on her “Bob Marley: One Love” movie character Rita Marley and meeting her in person at home in an effort to better understand her and her family in this interview at the UK Premiere. Check it out.
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00:00 The usual way as an actor, you do your research.
00:03 She has an incredible book that I read pretty straight away.
00:07 I asked as many questions to myself as I could
00:10 before I knew that I had to meet her.
00:12 I had to sit with her and just get the energy,
00:16 get the vibes, and she agreed,
00:18 and she welcomed me into her home on a couple of occasions.
00:21 And I had loads of questions, like hundreds of questions,
00:24 and I didn't ask one.
00:25 I just soaked her in.
00:27 I literally just said, "Whatever you wanna tell me,
00:29 whatever you wanna impart is what's gonna help me
00:31 and what's gonna inform the shoot for me."
00:33 And it did.
00:34 She's like an energy spirit, ethereal being that,
00:39 I mean, I can only hope that, you know,
00:43 I was able to get a little bit of her in the film.
00:45 It was brilliant.
00:48 I think absolutely essential to have their guidance
00:51 and to have them at the end of the phone,
00:54 across the text, on set, behind the monitors.
00:57 You know, they weren't watching with like a judgmental eye
01:01 or questioning anything.
01:02 They were there just as like protectors of their parents,
01:05 their legacy and their story.
01:07 And although we're shooting a film, this is their line,
01:09 you know, and I think that they really trusted me
01:12 and Kingsley to come in and just protect their parents.
01:15 That was my sole purpose,
01:16 to make sure that Mrs. Marley was upheld.
01:19 So I don't think I would have been able
01:21 to reach the point that I did,
01:24 developing the Rita that everyone's gonna know
01:27 without their help so very very grateful they were in on everything.