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Actor Sinqua Walls reveals that ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ is a love letter to the original 1992 film and that he understands the responsibility when it comes to adapting to his character as Kamal.
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00:00To be able to retell this film is an honor, genuinely, I think, for all of us.
00:06And I think that's why when people say this, we've said so many different versions of answers throughout this process.
00:11And, like, we say it's a love letter to Los Angeles, but it's a love letter to the movie that came before us.
00:16And we all understood it.
00:17We all understood that we were retelling stories and living in iterations of characters that were created before.
00:22And we're adapting them.
00:23We're remixing them.
00:24And we're making it something new now.
00:26So, for me, it was an honor, but I think we all understood the responsibility.
00:30We're mixing the world.
00:36We're mixing the world.
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