Actor-producer Nnamdi Asomugha previews the swoony period drama starring Tessa Thompson.
The period drama from writer-director Eugene Ashe starsas Sylvie, an aspiring television producer who falls in love with Robert , a talented saxophonist, over the course of the summer of 1957. Years pass, the world changes, and their lives take different paths — but when Sylvie and Robert meet again, they discover that their feelings for each other remain and both must decide what they truly want.
“We [wanted] to create a film in the tradition of those great Hollywood love stories,” says Asomugha, who also served as a producer. The filmmakers embraced that sensibility from a technical standpoint, shooting on 16mm film “to ensure that we were authentically capturing the vintage sort of epic love story,” Asomugha tells EW.
The project spoke to Asomugha in part precisely because it told that kind of story, in a period setting, with African American protagonists. “[With] a period film with African American leads, a lot of times what happens is you’re looking at a story that’s sort of rooted in the adversity of their lives,” he says. Inof the color of their skin.
The midcentury detail also extended to the music, which is a major element throughout the film . Sylvie and Robert meet in her father’s record shop, “talking about Thelonious Monk,” says Asomugha, who also names Nancy Wilson, Sam Cooke, and Stevie Wonder among the time-spanning film’s needle-drops. In preparation for his role, the actor spent about a year and a half learning to play the saxophone.
He’s got a talent for picking up new skills: A former NFL cornerback, Asomugha had his first major film role three years ago in Matt Ruskin’s, which also debuted at Sundance and for which he picked up an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Takingto Park City on his second trip to the fest, “I just want audiences to sit back and fall in love again,” he says. “You’re just going to sit back, you’re going to fall in love, and you’re going to fight for these two characters.
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