Actor Nathan Davis Jr., best known for “Detroit,” “Hotel Artemis” and Marvel’s “Runaways,” said that growing up as a Black man, he never really experienced racism. But, in a lawsuit filed on Tuesda…
,” “Hotel Artemis” and Marvel’s “Runaways,” said that growing up as a Black man, he never really experienced racism. But, in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Davis reveals that he was kicked off an airplane last December, after a flight attendant told him he was playing music too loudly and falsely accused him of possessing a gun, an incident Davis claims was racially motivated.. “I honestly felt like there was nobody there that had my back. I was the only Black man on the plane.
“The last time, the third time, I had my music paused, just to see, and she did it again and she was mocking me,” he said. Davis was ordered back onto the plane to retrieve his belongings, and once there — as noted in the lawsuit — had one final interaction with the flight attendant, which he also captured on video. In the video, a voice can be heard saying “he has a gun now” over the loudspeaker, an accusation which Davis claims in his lawsuit was false and hadn’t been brought up until that point. As he left the plane, Davis thought there would be police waiting for him in the terminal.
In the 2017 film, Davis plays Aubrey Pollard Jr., who was gunned down by police at the Algiers Motel during the 1967 Detroit rebellions — and the actor tells“Being that character, I had to really go through months of living that situation, so when that situation on the plane happened, it brought me back to my character,” Davis said. “It brought me back to those images and those videos that I was watching to prepare for that situation.
Despite growing up in the suburbs of Memphis, Tenn., and never having any trouble with authorities, Davis said his parents taught him how to act if the situation arose.
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