Djimon Hounsou tells THR on the red carpet what makes the film 'Rebel Moon' unique compared to his previous projects. Plus, he shares what he hopes viewers can take away from this movie.
00:00You've been in a number of action-adventure movies, but what do you think makes Rebel Moon unique, and this universe unique?
00:07Rebel Moon is unique for the content of the story.
00:14A story that mimics our reality in a fashion that I've never read from any script before.
00:25Written in such an epic way that addresses so much the indoctrination of the continent of Africa over centuries.
00:47And it's still, you know, in terms of its geopolitical tentacle that you've been holding back that continent,
00:57and it's unbelievable that that story speaks to me in that fashion, and I can relate to every single decade after decade.
01:13Every, lots of leaders who were not leaders for their people.
01:22Right.
01:24What message do you hope viewers might take away from this movie?
01:27Well, I mean, we, he, interestingly, the one thing that's very organic and grounding is the nature of the people that are just trying to live.
01:45And having to be forced to literally give your crop to an empire.
01:55Grain became the most valuable thing in that world.
01:59Not minerals, no oil, no gas, but it was just grain.
02:04Which brought really a sense of very, like I said, very organic in a way.
02:15And also the nature, the need to preserve our planet in the way we, you know, hypocritically sort of like abuse it, yeah.
02:27Definitely. We're excited to see the film, to see this message play out.
02:30For you, can you tell us about your character and the role that he plays in the story?
02:35I play General Titus.
02:37General Titus happens to be a fabric of the, of the Imperium, for which he would go against later.
02:49But he was of that fabric, and that's the reason why I said the, the, the way the story, you know,
02:57I relate to the story and it resonates to me.
03:01It has so much to do with the geopolitical, you know, tentacles that have been holding the continent back for a long time.
03:08In a sense that I myself was a criminal, you know, in some fashion.
03:12I committed a number of crime on the behalf of the Imperium.
03:17And then eventually had a, you know, sort of like a, a change of heart, which now he was fighting for the innocent and the request.
03:27Zack Snyder directed this movie.
03:29What would you say is the best part about working with him as a director?
03:32Just working with somebody who's this creative and, and who's also this, I don't know how he deals with the, the pressure of the daily filming and having to manage production from production to writing, directing and so on.
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