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A SHAFT reboot cast Jessie T. Usher, Regina Hall, Samuel L. Jackson, and Alexandra Shipp alongside Richard Roundtree premiere.
Mr. Roundtree will be reprising his role of John Shaft I alongside Samuel L Jackson, who will be playing John Shaft II, and Jessie T. Usher, who will portray John Shaft Jr.
He played the legendary private eye in 3 films and a TV show.The 76-year-old actor was 21 at the time the first Shaft hit theaters.
“He’s kind of iconic in our community and in our mythology,” Jackson - above, pictured with his wife Latanya Richardson - told the New York Daily News. “He’s one of our heroes, and we don’t want to make him be a buffoon or a fool in any way.”"MacGyver" star Tristin Mays, SHAFT star Regina Hall, Oscar winner Spike Lee, NBA baller Dwight Howard, Beyonce's mom Tina Knowles Lawson and her husband Richard Lawson, comedian Cedric the Entertainer, musician Questlove, CNN's Don Lemon, SHAFT director Tim Story and his wife Vicky Mara Story below:
“To have a guy like that who was unapologetically black, brave, cool and irreverent was a revelation,” said the actor, who was 22 when Shaft initially hit theaters in July 1971.
“By the time the Blaxploitation era hit, people tried to disparage it in an interesting sort of way, but we wanted it,” Jackson added to the outlet. “We needed it. I’ve been going to movies all my life, so it was important that I see people who were heroes, who were sticking it to the Man, which is what basically those movies were.”
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