Blackfilm.com correspondent Ellen J. Wanjiru chats briefly with Kelvin Harrison Jr. about the weight of his lead role in Netflix Original film ‘MONSTER,’ premiering Friday, May 7th, 2021. Lead role Monster Kelvin Harrison
Kelvin Harrison Jr. (“Mudbound,” “The Trials of the Chicago Seven”) delivers a stellar and heartbreaking performance as Steve Harmon, a seventeen-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder. The film follows his dramatic journey from a smart, likeable film student from Harlem attending an elite high school through a complex legal battle that could leave him spending the rest of his life in prison.
MONSTER is a must-watch film for its thought-provoking, creative, insightful and stunning depiction of identity, race, peer pressure, dehumanization, crime, teenaged masculinity, and the relative or subjective nature of the truth.
Starring Jennifer Hudson, Jeffrey Wright, Jharrel Jerome, Jennifer Ehle, Rakim Mayers (A$AP Rocky), Nasir ‘Nas’ Jones, Lovie Simone, Tim Blake Nelson and John David Washington. See cast photos below!
Directed by Anthony Mandler |Written by Radha Blank, Colen C. Wiley, Janece Shaffer |Produced by: Tonya Lewis Lee, Nikki Silver, Aaron L. Gilbert, Mike Jackson, Edward Tyler Nahem | Executive produced by John Legend, Nasir “Nas” Jones and actor Jeffrey Wright.
Monster is based on Walter Dean Myer’s 1999 novel of the same title.
Monster first premiered over three years ago when it was featured at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Hudson Talk ‘MONSTER’
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