Majors says he was drawn to acting because it offered a safe space to be impulsive and connect with others.
That bond spilled over into the nostalgic, poetic film centered on the friendship of two young black men in a fast-gentrifying San Francisco. Majors plays the quiet, quirky Montgomery Allen, an artist and playwright living with his blind grandfather and capturing the world around him in his work.
, and is based on Fails' own surreal upbringing in San Francisco. Majors' character was initially named Prentice and was based on Fails' real friend from school. But when Majors asked to meet with Prentice so that he could essentially imitate him for the role, Talbot and Fails decided he should do his own thing. Majors then asked for the character to be renamed Montgomery. "From then on, everything opened up," he says.
"Me and my brother used to play a game where we used to see a Cadillac DeVille drive by and we would run into a ditch and hide, as to not get shot up. The other game we would play: Me and my friends would be walking around and we'd scream 'Cops!' and you run around and jump over the nearest fence to get away from the cops. That was the day-to-day. It was crazy, it was fun, but it was also a scary environment.
"The hope with Atticus is to bring elements of surprise to him. He's a hero, he's also a bibliophile, he reads books, he loves pulp fiction stories, he's a soldier, he's also near-sighted, he's a killer, he's done things in war as soldiers must — he's an amalgamation of all these things," Majors says.
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