00:00 It's a big, beautiful, spectacle movie.
00:05 It was shot in Jamaica.
00:06 The colour, I mean, seeing Jamaica in this kind of exceptional, beautiful way
00:11 is just worthy of a cinema screen.
00:13 Also, the sound quality, like you need a big speaker to hear these tunes.
00:17 This kind of music wasn't written to be played on a tiny little phone speaker.
00:22 So you need the vibrations, physical and emotional, to take hold.
00:28 Bob's music, like a lot of people, I bought 'Legend' when I was like 13
00:36 and loved it and listened to it on repeat for many, many years.
00:40 He kind of provided a sort of strange soundtrack,
00:42 whether it was a party or a more pensive moment, he was kind of there, you know.
00:48 And then doing this movie, my appreciation of him has expanded
00:54 and hopefully when you watch the film you'll agree,
00:56 it kind of contextualises the music and gives it meaning and really elevates it.
01:00 And now, I guess for me, right now in the world,
01:04 Bob's message and his music is more apt and needed than ever.
01:09 I mean, there are many amazing songs I love.
01:14 I've recently come back to 'Jamming'
01:19 because it has a very particular association for me now
01:23 because we shot the amazing sequence, the montage,
01:26 where they're writing 'Jamming' and Chris Blackwell is in the mixing box
01:30 and it's this very wonderful scene.
01:32 And in between the...
01:34 Bob Marley's wife, Rita, in one loud cry.
01:36 Please give a huge hotel welcome to Lashana Lynch!
01:40 So when we were shooting 'Jamming', in between the set-ups,
01:45 usually in a film set you have to go and sit on your own,
01:49 in between the set-ups when we shoot 'Jamming'
01:51 we sit and wait for the cameras to be set up again a lot of time.
01:54 And on this particular scene, all the guys in the scene,
01:57 a lot of them are musicians.
01:59 Hector Lewis and Aston Barrett and Naomi Cowan.
02:03 So they would just carry on playing.
02:05 So we would have these incredible jam sessions in the green room
02:08 where I'd be tapping away on a coffee cup and singing.
02:11 It was just so fun.
02:12 So for me, 'Jamming' has wonderful associations now.
02:14 Good memories.
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