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There are few if any actors that can claim they’ve blown the great Leonardo DiCaprio off the screen. Academy Award nominee Djimon Hounsou, however, is perhaps one of those people.
Speaking to BroBible’s Post Credit Podcast ahead of the release of Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire, Hounsou explained that he was so emotionally connected to the story that it didn’t even feel like he was performing but was instead living in the soul of his character Solomon Vandy
“The nature of that story, it still gives me chills. The nature of that story was enough for me to be extremely connected emotionally,” Hounsou said when we asked if there were any times when he and Leonardo DiCaprio had to push themselves through the difficulties of filming Blood Diamond.
“So we [him and DiCaprio] didn’t need to talk or say anything about it. Because it’s a fact. It’s a fact when you look at the makeup of the continent of Africa and the geopolitical tentacles that have been holding that continent back for centuries — it’s inevitable,” he continued.
“It’s inevitable not to feel, it’s inevitable not to be organically, emotionally connected to this story. And there was nothing that needed to be said… I was alive from the moment [director] Ed Zwick started rolling and telling this story. I was alive from that moment to the end. I’m in the soul of that guy and that character.”
Hounsou’s latest film, Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire will premiere on Netflix on Thursday, December 21. A sequel, Rebel Moon: Part One – The Scargiver, will also be released in April 2024.