Rapper and actor T.I is adding another project to his list of acting roles. The King of the South has made it clear that he will be starring in the Roots remake on the History Channel. However, he wasn’t all the way for it initially. Check out the trailer and his view on the remake after the jump.
King of the South T.I recently sat down with The Huffington post to discuss his new role and his hesitance towards it early on.
“This was an opportunity that [producer Will Packer] presented to me, and of course initially he got a little bit of push back from me. I will admit that I was one of the ones to say, ‘Man, I don’t know if that needs to be remade.’ It was just a huge undertaking for him as a producer and for me as an actor to sign up to remake such a classic and to tell a story that has so much pain and just so much turmoil involved in it.”
With huge names co-starring in the remake such as Laurence Fishburne and Forest Whitaker, the miniseries is bound to be ground shaking.
“I kind of amplified my thoughts and how I felt when my freedom was separate and apart from me. So I kind of took that and pushed upon it, because Cyrus is actually the most rebellious and non-subservient character that there is. You never see Cyrus in Roots as a slave, he’s always a runaway slave – running, dodging bullets and doing whatever it takes to maintain his freedom. So it wasn’t as slave written as the rest of the characters, but I think all of the characters collectively to the story are important.”
Here is the trailer for the 4 part mini series, set to debut May 30th.
