The past two days?
Try the past two years.
It was unreal."
Jonathan Majors and Idris Elba face off in the new Netflix western ‘The Harder They Fall.'.DAVID LEE/NETFLIX
Majors quickly saw him and Samuel as kindred spirits.
“A director and a lead actor have such an interesting dynamic.
“One is inside out and the other is outside in, or they’re perceived that way.
Jonathan Majors reunites with Delroy Lindo and RJ Cyler, two actors he’s worked with before, in Netflix’s ‘The Harder They Fall.'.DAVID LEE/NETFLIX © 2021
Unfortunately, just as the cast and crew were starting production in New Mexico, the pandemic hit.
That’s when Majors took the reins off screen, too.
“I said, ‘Jeymes, you cannot leave.
‘The Harder They Fall’ director Jeymes Samuel and Jonathan Majors connect at the film’s U.S. premiere.Rachel Murray/Getty Images
I’m leading this cast and you’re leading this movie,'” Majors declares. "
‘If you leave we go down, bro.
You are a walking metaphor right now.
Adds Samuel, “This is Jonathan as the lead.
Every part of him was the cowboy.”
I go, okay, bring it, come.
He admits “the isolation was so necessary.
“Oh, it’s all right, isn’t it?
This was the plan.
I’m very happy about where my work is.”
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