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Breaking Baz: Rapper Stormzy Launches #MerkyFilms With Role In ‘Big Man’ & Inks Netflix Deal: “I Want To Do My 10,000 Hours” And Study Acting & Movies, He Says
Grime Rapper Stormzy Launches His #MerkyFilms Studio With ‘Big Man” & Inks Deal With Netflix
EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning grime rapper Stormzy, who fell in love with movies as a kid watching Titanic and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit with his mother, says that he wants to “learn from the best.” He is launching his#MerkyFilms shingle with a starring role in short film Big Man, directed by Oscar-winning The Long Goodbye filmmaker Aneil Karia and produced in association with Apple. Stormzy, all 6-foot-5 of him, allowed me a sneak of the aptly named Big Man, a 24-minute short film shot entirely on an Apple iPhone 16 Pro by cinematographer Stuart Bentley ( Black Mirror, The Long Goodbye) and released June 18. In Big Man, the artist plays Tenzman, a fictional rapper who’s stuck in a rut until he finds inspiration to write new music after meeting two cheeky teen lads in his London neighborhood.
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