Lashana Lynch says playing Bob Marley’s widow Rita Marley in Bob Marley: One Love brought her a lot of “peace” in her own life.
The star always learns something from the various characters she plays, she said, and it was no different when she took on the role of the reggae legend’s wife in the new biopic about his life.
“I’ve been able to harness a stillness that I’ve been looking for in my life as me and as an artist and as a woman through learning about how much we’re able to do everything. Sometimes this industry can be so chaotic. Creating art can be so taxing at the worst of times. Especially when you add expectations and pressures to it,” she told Film Stories.
“Through playing Mrs. Marley and through channelling the energy of my culture, in a film about my culture, has genuinely given me more peace as a person,” Lynch said.
Bob Marley: One Love stars Barbie actor Kingsley Ben-Adir as the titular musician and documents the singer’s rise to fame up until his death from cancer in 1981 at age 36.
Meanwhile, Lynch has said she would be willing to perform the next Bond theme after getting the chance to showcase her singing talents in the biopic.
“Oh my gosh — could you let them know! I can write a tune or two and do that. Yeah, yeah, sure. I’d be down. I’d be down,” she told On Demand Entertainment.
“That’s a great … great idea. That is. Now I’m like, ‘OK, now I must write that down to make sure [Bond producer] Barbara Broccoli knows,'” she added.
The London-born actor played Nomi alongside Daniel Craig in his final film as 007, 2021’s No Time To Die.
