I hear so many Muddy Waters references now in music that I hadn't before. Jeffrey Wright: I had to research all the lawsuits. It is what's attractive about the whole process. In this film I don't play the music, but I can speak about connecting to the music.I think everybody here gained this immense appreciation for the blues. What kind of research did you have to do to get into your character?Īdrien Brody (Leonard Chess): It is part of what attracts an actor to the role, to learn about, and have a greater understanding, not only of the man or woman that you're playing, but what they embody, and what brings them truth.
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We've still got problems and issues in this country, but I think that spirit and that attitude, writing music and writing songs and being free to do it, you live outside of society.
You understand that these were racial times, and segregation, and a lot of pressure, but because they were these stars of music, they had a certain freedom that led them to believe they led in a world that was beyond the existence of what really happened. I think these guys would be very happy to know that, from the energy and space of where they came, the time in America that we show in this film, and what they had to live through. And Willie wanted to write a song called "Barack Obama Ain't Got the Blues No More- President, Dammit." It's a great song. He was going to serve the community that these guys were a part of.Ĭedric the Entertainer (Willie Dixon): I actually talked to a medium, and they spoke to Willie Dixon. Or rather, Barack Obama went to Chicago because Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters went to Chicago, and all the folks that they represented. Jeffrey Wright: It could be said that Barack Obama went to Chicago because of Holwing Wolf and Muddy Waters.
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Everyone who sees this movie will draw the poignancy that we now have the President-elect being the first African-American. The undertone is there throughout the whole movie. Eamonn Walker (Howlin' Wolf): Darnell has made a very clear line from then to now, where the blues came from, the pain, and that music being able to get them through from whatever they were used to at that time.
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