Kingsley Ben-Adir found singing for the Bob Marley movie 'terrifying'

Kingsley Ben-Adir spoke to Yahoo UK about the challenges he faced perfecting his portrayal of the iconic musician onscreen.

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00:00 How did you find singing on this project?

00:02 It's terrifying. Terrifying.

00:05 But you can't mind Bob.

00:08 So I knew that Bob's voice was always going to be in the film.

00:14 But I wanted to sing on set just to get the feeling and the emotion.

00:20 So everyone was forced to listen to me for four months.

00:25 And sometimes I'd lose my voice because I can't, you know,

00:28 I don't have the technique necessarily.

00:31 But Bob was also singing from somewhere, you know, his voice was...

00:36 He's so beautiful to listen to because his voice did have a roughness to it.

00:40 But Bob's so beautiful and moving.

00:44 What's so magnetic about him is that he's singing from somewhere deep, you know.

00:49 He's trying to connect to something really powerful.

00:51 So that's what... I think that's what's so, like, spellbinding about it.

00:55 It's that he's singing for his life in a way, you know.

00:58 Every time he steps up, there's no half...

01:01 Bob never did, like, a half-hearted show, you know.

01:04 Every show was, you know, full energy.

01:07 So full connection.

01:11 I really enjoyed the musical side of it, yeah.

01:13 [silence]