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The jam session went on until nearly 2 a.m. Samuel had more surprise performances in store with Tiffany Haddish jumping on stage to perform Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary” and Saint Jhn dropping a few bars. “I’ve never been more proud than seeing the king, the Black god do his thing,” Seal said of Samuel before launching into a passionate rendition of his 1991 smash “Crazy.” Alice Smith was first up, blowing the roof off the venue with her powerful pipes, before Grammy-winning musician (and Samuel’s older brother) Seal took the stage.

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Guests, including Jesse Williams (who starred in Samuel’s “They Die By Dawn” and Jay-Z’s “Legacy” music video), Nas and Netflix CMO Bozoma Saint John and VP of original film Tendo Nagenda, perched on plush, lounge-style sofas stationed around a stage at the center of the venue, where a full life band waited, primed and ready to perform.īack to Beyoncé - the iconic entertainer did not take the stage, instead graciously fielded hellos at her booth, but kept things low-key during the live show, sitting surrounded by her nearest and dearest - including her mother Tina Knowles-Lawson and Richard Lawson Kelly Rowland and Tim Weatherspoon and Alicia Keys and Swizz Beetz - all on hand to support Jay-Z and Samuel.Īfter an hour of mixing and mingling - and, for Samuel, Majors, King, Cole and Jay-Z, fielding congratulations on the film - it was time for Samuel to emcee the musical portion of the evening.

He’s the kind of person you want to be around.”Īfter the screening ended, guests were ushered to a separate area of the Shrine, which had been converted into King’s character “Treacherous” Trudy Smith’s Saloon. “He will always take the positive high road, and he lifts you up. “He is now what he was then, which is an unbelievable force of nature,” Luhrmann explains. Director Baz Luhrmann, who’d collaborated with Samuel on “The Great Gatsby” when Jay-Z tapped him to be the movie’s executive music consultant, was also on hand to celebrate the budding filmmaker. Henson, Lil Rel Howery, Evan Ross, Logan Browning, Teyana Taylor, Kehlani, Karrueche Tran, Bre-Z and more turning up for the big event. A place where liberty remains a place where freedom is actually attainable.”īlack excellence reigned throughout the event, with stars like Taraji P.

It’s actually what it was supposed to be - a new frontier. But with Samuel’s take on “The Harder They Fall,” he says, “We broke down that narrative, and expanded that narrative, so now the Western is a whole different world.

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One of the reasons why Majors believes this movie could be so powerful is due to the limited lens through which Western stories have been told historically. “It’s not just Nat Love, but he’s at the forefront in this movie, so it means a great deal for me, for the homies, for my people where I come from,” he adds. “It’s on Netflix, so the entire world is gonna see it, and you can see it again and again and again and again and again and again and again.” “It’s something we haven’t seen before, we’ve not seen it with this much aggression, with this much grace, with this much Blackness, we’ve just not seen it,” he says, reinforcing the importance of putting these images on screen. “He’s a walking collaboration and he deserves everything you see tonight and more,” Jay said of Samuel.įrom Majors’ perspective, the writer/director/producer/composer has captured something truly special with “The Harder They Fall.” The Texas-born actor stars as real-life Black cowboy Nat Love, transported back into the 1890s, where Samuel presents a host of real players - like Rufus Buck (Idris Elba), Gertrude Smith (King), Cherokee Bill (LaKeith Stanfield), Stagecoach Mary Fields (Zazie Beetz) and Bass Reeves (oft considered to be an inspiration for “The Lone Ranger,” played by Delroy Lindo) - within a fictional context. 3 - before his interview was bombed by his other longtime collaborator, rapper Jay Electronica. The first-time feature filmmaker continued to wax poetic about the movie - which debuts theatrically on Oct. “It’d been in my brain since I was a kid but really for the last 15 years hard. “It means everything meant to be premiering this movie after so long,” Samuel told Variety on the carpet.

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