By Will Thorne Staff Writer Amandla Stenberg, who has played guitar and violin since childhood, is named after the 1989 Miles Davis album.
So her latest role in “The Eddy,” Damien Chazelle’s grainy, Paris-based love letter to jazz centered on a nightclub owner (André Holland), might not seem like too much of a stretch.
But Stenberg stepped into the role of the club owner’s daughter barely knowing a word of French and with little experience in improvisation — a key component to capturing the show’s tripping cadence, she says.
Ahead of the May 8 release of the 8-part series on Netflix, Variety caught up with Stenberg to talk about shooting in Paris, working with Chazelle and playing another precocious 16-year-old, Julie, after her role in
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