Jovan Adepo joins Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva and Lil Jun Li (with cameos from many famous faces along the way) in Damien Chazelle’s new feature, which releases on Dec. 23 and follows the ups and downs of the film industry in 1920s Hollywood.
It was through the normal ranks of auditioning. I saw it in my email [in 2019] and even before I even read the script, it just said Damien Chazelle and I was like, “Yes. I’m in there. Whatever I can do, I’m in there.”
Originally they sent me the full script and then my audition sides and I sent a tape in and I hadn’t heard back because of the pandemic really becoming a severe issue. So I was just like, “Oh, maybe they went elsewhere or they just weren’t going to cast me in the project. It wasn’t for me.” But then after the 2020 Emmys, my agent told me that Damien wanted to give me a call. So he called me when I was at the grocery store that November and he was just like, “Yeah man, I want you to do this film.
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