Regina King and Idris Elba to bring to life Netflix’s biggest picture of the year—which counts Jay Z as one of its producers—sounds like a rousing good time to me.
But for Edi Gathegi, one of the stars of the newly released western The Harder They Fall, the experience filming the movie was about more than trying to entertain audiences.
It was about finding a meaningful way to educate them on figures of our nation’s history that’ve been intentionally overlooked. “We had a lot of fun, but the fun is not to be confused with fun fun,” Gathegi tells ESSENCE of working on the film in which he plays the Texas-bred cowboy Bill Picket. “It was fun to commit ourselves to the mission and the mission was real.
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