John didn’t enough funds on his own, so the two of them went on to record many musicians from Mississippi. Lomax was contacted by a professor named John Work from Fisk University. JW: Muddy Waters was a sharecropper and musician and Alan Lomax is credited with discovering him.
How much did you know of Waters before taking the role? It was the music that pulled me into committing to the film. At the same time I deeply respect its authenticity. As an actor, I’ve always had an ear for language and so the language of the blues always spoke to me. It’s an expression of celebration of the struggle, in particularly language Black American South. My grandparents were from North Carolina and Virginia and the blues, I always felt, was more than music. I think a lot of it has to do with me being raised, part of the time, in the South. For me, my insight into the character and into the story was the music. I knew what level he was reaching for, and the level of authenticity I was looking for and required to tell the story. He’s one of the baddest musicians I know and he told me he was going to be doing the music for the film and I said I was in.
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Jeffrey Wright: I was approached to play Muddy Waters in the movie and initially I was uncertain, but then I got a call from an old and dear friend of mine, Steve Jordan. In speaking with exclusively with Wright, he talked about playing Muddy Waters, working with the cast, and his upcoming theater work. Her previous credits include "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "I Like It Like That."īesides Wright as Waters, the film has Adrien Brody as Leonard Chess, Emmanuelle Chriqui as Revetta Chess, Mos Def as Chuck Berry, Beyonce Knowles as Etta James, Gabrielle Union as Geneva Wade, Columbus Short as Little Walter, Cedric the Entertainer as Willie Dixon, Eamonn Walker as Howlin' Wolf, Eric Bogosian as Alan Freed, and Marc Bonan as Keith Richards. Darnell Martin also scripted the film, based on an original idea.
Chess, who co-founded the label with his brother Phil, was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950's Chicago, "Cadillac Records" follows the the rise and fall of Chess Records and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf and Elvis Presley. In his latest film, he will play another well known individual, ‘Muddy Waters’ in ‘Cadillac Records’ It also leads to doing more research so that he can nail the performance down. Having played General Colin Powell in ‘W’ and Felix Leiter in the latest James Bond film, ‘Quantum of Solace’, Jeffrey is getting used to taking on the persona of well known individuals and characters. CADILLAC RECORDS | An Exclusive Interview with Jeffrey WrightĪn Exclusive Interview with Jeffrey Wright
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