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Kingsley Ben-Adir shares what reaction to his Bob Marley performance stuck with him, the challenges of taking on the role of an actual person and more at the 2024 Oscars.

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00:00Bob Marley One Love has been a huge success at the box office. What has that

00:04been like for you? Relief. I feel relieved and happy. Happy for the family, you know?

00:11Has there been one viewer response to the film that you've seen that really

00:16stuck with you? No, but a lady came up to me in Jamaica and she said, how do you

00:22think you did? I said, listen, I tried my best. I know it's not perfect. And she

00:28said, I get a B plus. And I was like a B plus a B plus from her was worth 10

00:37Oscars. I love that thing to say. Yeah. Cause it was honest. It wasn't perfect,

00:43but it was the attempt was the attempt to honor the language. It was the attempt

00:47to speak in a complex Patois. It was the attempt from the studio and the family

00:52to not like to be confident in that the audience don't need to understand

00:57everything Bob's saying all the time, like all the time that we just focusing

01:00on story. So there was a lot in that, that made me feel very proud and relieved.

01:06Yeah. You're no stranger to playing real people. What do you like most about taking

01:10on that challenge of portraying a real person? I don't know, really. They all

01:16kind of bring different things. I guess with Bob, Bob, I just watched him and I was just

01:22drawn to him, you know, I was like, there was something magnetic about him. It just felt

01:26dangerous. I guess where something feels dangerous or it feels new or feels like a

01:30challenge, you know, as an actor, you go, I want to have a go, you know, but, um, yeah,

01:37I guess it's different for each one. With One Night in Miami, I wanted to work with

01:40Regina, you know, and, and Kemp wrote such a beautiful play. Um, it was a sort of challenge

01:45of trying to bring, bring essentially a scene in a room to life, you know, as a movie.

01:51So yeah, each one's a little different. You're here tonight with the cast of Barbie. It's

01:55nominated for best picture. What are the odds that we might see you up on stage during

02:00an I'm just Ken performance with some other Ken's any chance at all? What, what performance?

02:05Oh, well, Ryan Gosling's performing. I'm just Ken, but I was asking, is there any chance

02:09other Ken's he is? So it sounds like there's definitely no chance you'll be on stage.

02:14No idea. But I came to bring some Kennergy, but just to support in energy.

02:20I love that. What's the key to Kennergy?

02:23I don't know. I guess it just depends. It's different for everyone. For me, it was something

02:27that shooting the film, I was like, Oh, I've had this my whole life. It's just about controlling

02:31it and making sure you use it in a healthy way because it can get toxic as we saw in the

02:37movie.

02:38That is so true for you. What was the highlight of working on Barbie?

02:43I was shooting the scene on the day when Ryan was up on the, up on the balcony doing

02:53that final scene with Margo, like slaps himself. He goes to throw himself. We were just, we

03:01were in stitches for like three days shooting that sequence. It was unreal. It was unreal.

03:05And maybe the bit when he's um, the whole sequence of going through the Mojo Dojo castle, we were

03:12just rolling around. There were a lot of fart jokes in that sequence that got cut out because

03:17it was just too stupid. But on the day, it was great.

03:20I mean, it seems like it was such a fun film to make and that the set was just a blast all

03:26the time, I would imagine.

03:27Oh, the best of the best. The best of the best. Yeah. I miss it.

03:34Yeah.

03:35Yeah.

03:36...

03:39Yeah.

03:40Well, so try that.

03:41Oh no.

03:46Let me see, chance.

03:48Well, so do zoom in.

03:49And then, show up, and I'm going to do zoom in here.

03:52Let me see.

03:54Be versus.

03:55Yep.

03:56Let me, see, c B.

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