Naomie Harris on Working With Mahershala Ali in ‘Swan Song,’ the Future of Bond and Producing Her First Project About Black History

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Given it’s been a tough 12 months for cinema, it would be an achievement to appear in just one of the top 10 highest grossing films of the year. Naomie Harris has appeared in two: “No Time to Die” …

And as if she wasn’t busy enough, having also recently wrapped Showtime series “The Man Who Fell to Earth” opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor, Harris is making her producing debut, she exclusively tells, on a project about an aspect of Black history traditionally under-explored in cinema that she also plans to star in.

So it’s perhaps unsurprising that when Ali boarded “Swan Song” as producer and lead actor, Harris jumped at the opportunity to reunite with him on screen. “When I worked with Mahershala on ‘Moonlight,’ we worked together for just one day and we didn’t really have very much time together to really understand each other’s technique or what have you,” says Harris.

It helped that the film was “one of the best sets that I’ve ever been on,” says Harris, explaining that in one of her first Zoom conversations with Cleary, the director told her he was choosing the cast and crew based on “their heart-centeredness.” Harris is, however, keen to move behind the camera as a producer and is currently working on her first project, which, she says, is currently in the writing stage. “There is a project at the moment that I am in the process of producing and I’m starting that,” she says. “I will be acting in it. I don’t know if I can really say much more. It’s [about] exploring parts of Black history that are under-explored. So I’m super excited about that.

None of which is to say the industry has fixed all its diversity and representation issues. “I definitely think there’s masses of room for improvement,” Harris says, in particular citing the types of stories that are being told.

 

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