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Legendary Bluesman Buddy Guy on His Buzzy Movie Role in ‘Sinners’: ‘It’s a Dream Come True, to Be Honest… I Did It to Help the Blues’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Bluesman Buddy Guy talks about getting his big break as an actor, at 88, in the horror film 'Sinners,' and why he did it to help keep the blues alive.
reveals that Sammie, who is played as a youth in the 1930s by Miles Caton, survived the film’s long night of terror, thanks in part to how a resonator guitar can be used as a weapon. But before we get with Buddy, a few words from the film’s composer and music producer, Ludwig Göransson, who worked with Guy on his performance and on the song the bluesman plays at the end of the film, “Travelin’.” A month before shooting, Göransson went out to Guy’s Chicago club and got to swap not just musical ideas but tales of old bluesmen like Son House, who was one of writer-director Ryan Coogler ’s inspirations for the part. Bobby Rush, Willie Nelson and me, they call us the last of the 89- and 90-year-olds that’s still out there, and that’s kind of kept me to say, “Buddy, you better go back out there and play a little more, because there ain’t nobody left after you of that age that’s still standing around.” Because BB King was in a wheelchair for maybe four or five years before he died, and I’m not on crutches yet.
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