![]() “Sam would do something intentionally, seeing if I’m watching, and then when I caught it, we’d have this unspoken moment. Jackson and Roundtree were also checking him out - especially Jackson. “Even if it’s not verbal, even if it’s just a demeanour or how they carry themselves, or it’s just like little things here and there that they’ll say or do, you just start paying attention, you start picking up on things.” “They kind of both walk in and just start giving it,” Usher says in an interview during a recent Toronto visit. Usher began his daunting assignment by observing how his two predecessors moved. JJ finds himself working with, but also in opposition to, the retro-Shaft ways of Jackson, 70, and Roundtree, 76, who previously wore the shades and rocked the Glock. How did the genial Usher, 27, best known for playing sports heroes ( When the Game Stand Tall, TV’s Survivor’s Remorse) and a planetary saviour ( Independence Day: Resurgence), stand up to be the new John Shaft? His curse-averse millennial take, JJ for short, is an MIT grad working for the FBI as a cyber security expert, who is so anti-gun “he could easily be Canadian!” Usher jokes. The film will have fans of the franchise thinking they’re seeing triple: son, dad and grandad, relative versions of the complicated man who no one understands but his woman. Shaft’s back in the chamber for the multi-generational action-comedy also titled Shaft, directed by Barbershop’s Tim Story and now in theatres. Title anti-hero of the 1971 Blaxploitation classic starring Richard Roundtree, reprised in 2000 with Samuel L. Yes, I’m talking about Shaft, that bad mother (shut your mouth!) of a private dick. Usher is the new cat who won’t cop out, when there’s danger all about. Groomer: Shiyena Chun for Exclusive Artists Management Using Fresh Beauty and Seven Hair Care.Jessie T. He humbly credits his castmates for helping him fine tune his comic skills: “comedy is like a song and if everybody is not singing the same song, then it just won’t sound right.” It’s a far cry from the chef’s table or the mothership, but it seems like Usher is just getting started. Usher landed the role only after undergoing a rigorous audition process lasting almost five months. ![]() After graduating high school early as class salutatorian, Usher, now 24, went on to study culinary arts, having, as he puts it: “ in love with baking, more than anything.” And although he still aspires to one day open a restaurant, Usher decided to cut his culinary training short when he was picked up for Cartoon Network’s Level Up in 2012.ĭespite having found himself on Variety’s list of the ‘top ten actors to watch,’ Usher describes his progress as “gradual growth.” Not to be confined to the big screen, he also stars in the in the LeBron James-produced TV series Survivor’s Remorse-playing Cam Calloway, a basketball wunderkind thrust into stardom only to find that fame is not without caveats. , but we’d rather spoil a bucket of milk in our motorcar than blow the plot on whether the aliens are going to keep melting our monuments.įrom an early age Usher, a Maryland native, was honing his acting skills through workshops, classes, commercials, theater, and opera-moreover, he was also putting in time practicing archery (take that Aliens!), American Kenpo, and Tang Soo Do, a Korean martial art. Usher might be the man to solve this timeless question, since he just starred in the sci-fi extravaganza Who’s to say whether or not they can be immune to nukes but incredibly vulnerable to a 1990’s laptop? Jessie T. ![]() ![]() The Independence Day Star and class salutatorian talks passionĪliens.
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