Mos Def as Chuck Berry
The Hollywood Reporter also is reporting that rapper/actor/ultra-cool guy Mos Def will play rock ‘n’ roll legend Chuck Berry in the upcoming movie “Cadillac Records.”
Darnell Martin (”Their Eyes Were Watching God”) wrote and directed the film, which is filming now in New Jersey. Set in the 1950s, the movie chronicles the topsy-turvy life of Leonard Chess, founder of Chess Records, and the label’s artists, which included Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf.
Chess and his brother Phil started the label by selling records out of the trunk of their Caddy, hence the film’s name.
The cast also includes Adrien Brody as Chess, Jeffrey Wright as Waters, Beyonce Knowles as Etta James, and Gabrielle Union as Waters’ girlfriend Geneva Wade.
-BAM
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