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Ahead of A Jazzman’s Blues dropping connected Netflix, Austin Scott joined HollywoodLife for an EXCLUSIVE interrogation to sermon the film, that has been a 27-year agelong task for Tyler Perry. “It’s decidedly thing he’s held successful his heart for a precise agelong time,” the actor, who stars arsenic Willie Earl successful the film, explained. “It was that task that helium conscionable was like, ‘I don’t privation to springiness this to the satellite until they’re acceptable for it.’ And helium truly wanted to deed america each with his extent of creativity. His passionateness for this was conscionable infectious.”
A Jazzman’s Blues follows an unsolved execution that leads to the communicative of a forbidden emotion acceptable to the soundtrack of juke associated blues successful the heavy South. In it, Austin takes connected the relation of Willie, a trumpet subordinate whose limelight is opening to dim. Perry wrote the screenplay successful 1995, his archetypal penning task ever, but accumulation stalled successful the mid-2000s earlier picking backmost up successful 2022. “I don’t deliberation determination was 1 circumstantial happening that made him restart the project. “I deliberation everything that happened implicit the pandemic with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, that acceptable up the ambiance to a constituent wherever Tyler was like, ‘I deliberation we’re acceptable for this story. We’re acceptable to spell there.’ I deliberation this communicative volition beryllium received and appreciated for what it is,” Austin explained.
Austin Scott arsenic Willie Earl successful ‘A Jazzman’s Blues.’ (Courtesy of Netflix)“Each quality is truthful antithetic and the movie does a truly large occupation of dealing with the conception of resilience erstwhile it comes to love, the quality spirit, having a dream, each of these antithetic things. I deliberation that’s particularly poignant close present fixed what we’ve been through,” helium continued. “I conscionable anticipation that radical spot themselves successful this movie successful immoderate way, whether it beryllium successful a quality oregon a condition oregon a moment. I anticipation that radical are successful a spot to link with it and to consciousness that it resonates with them successful immoderate way, and possibly it helps them enactment done thing that they didn’t adjacent cognize they were going through.”
Austin Scott plays the trumpet arsenic Willie Earl successful ‘A Jazzman’s Blues.’ (Courtesy of Netflix)The histrion made his determination from the Broadway stage in Girl From The North Country to Savannah, Georgia to archer Willie Earl’s story. In doing so, helium picked up a trumpet for the precise archetypal time, and portion helium didn’t person the quality to larn to execute similar his character, Austin memorized the fingerings to Willie’s solo numbers, truthful his moves were ever authentic and existent to the country and music. “I wanted to physique a truly heavy narration with not lone jazz from that period, but besides the large trumpet players of that period. So I started conscionable listening and immersing myself successful it constantly,” helium told HL. “I knew instantly I didn’t privation to conscionable beryllium moving the trumpet around, I wouldn’t beryllium capable to instrumentality myself seriously.”
A Jazzman’s Blues, starring Austin Scott, alongside Solea Pfeiffer, Ryan Eggold and Joshua Boone, premieres connected Netflix September 23, 2022.
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