RJ Cyler says every role he plays includes a little bit of the people he met growing up in Jacksonville. His new film is 'Freedom's Path.'
Smith said he set out to flip the script on all the"white savior" films he's seen about slavery and tell the story of people who never made it into the history books.Cyler, whose acting credits include"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,""Emergency" and"The Harder They Fall," said he's been given a lot of scripts to read and can usually decide in the first 30 pages whether it's something he wants to do.
"Freedom's Path" is Cyler's first time producing a film. The role of Kitch really stretched his skills, he said. Cyler was raised in Jacksonville and moved to California with his family in 2013 to get his acting career off the ground. He said theprogram at Edward Waters University in Jacksonville changed his life, teaching him to set goals and work to achieve them. He was enrolled in the program during middle school and high school and made many friends.
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