“We all think we know Bob because we know his music. But looking back now, before I started [working on this film], I really didn’t know anything at all, and what I found out was game-changing. You think you know him, you feel connected to him because you’ve grown up with him, then you dive in and it keeps unravelling.”
As he hits screens as the titular musical icon at the heart of Bob Marley: One Love, Kingsley Ben-Adir covers our Spring/Summer 2024 issue. Primed for a definitive transition to international leading man-status, the Londoner talks the pressures of embodying a musical great, being cast by the Marleys themselves, the months of exclusive access to family archives that comprised his research, why initially he felt like he couldn’t take the job and what Marley’s own navigation of his craft taught him about his own.