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“Here’s to fighting through the trauma to get to myself,” he concluded. The actor ended his Instagram post by stating that he is celebrating almost 6-months sober and is continuing his journey to better health. “It’s not even necessarily about the person that you’re doing therapy with, but like you said, perspectives and strategies and tools that you didn’t have access to before.” “It helps you unlock things about yourself, ” he added. Stanfield said that going to therapy helped him unpack his anxiety from the scene and gave him the tools to approach overwhelming situations like that again. “With somebody like Daniel, who I just respect as a human and an artist, as Fred Hampton, it felt like I was actually poisoning Chairman Fred Hampton.” “Sometimes your body thinks that’s real,” he said about a cut scene where his character, Judas, was mixing poison to kill Fred Hampton, played by Daniel Kaluuya. In 2021, Stanfield spoke about panic attacks he suffered while filming for Judas and the Black Messiah. Hopefully some good folks in his life are going to check on him ASAP. Additionally, it is established in the opening scene that Love and Buck’s father is musically minded as Nat Love at an early age is keen to play the guitar when possible.I hope LaKeith Stanfield is ok. With Rufus Buck, it is because he is thinking of facing off against his brother, the last living connection to his father and the only remaining witness to his murder of their parents. With Nat Love, it is because he is explaining the ring’s origin to Mary and how it is his remaining connection to his father. This is emphasized by the fact that when each of the characters is performing the song, they are actively thinking about their father. While having subtitles turned on makes it easier to identify, the tune that he is whistling is that of “ Away with the Wind She Goes.” While this could be thought to be a simple coincidence, combined with the significance of the ring and Samuel’s use of music throughout the The Harder They Fall, there is a strong implication that both Nat Love and Rufus Buck know the song because it was one sung by their father when they were both young. When Rufus Buck enters the room where Nat and Mary are being held prisoner, the first time since the initial scene that the two men are seen together, Buck is whistling a tune. Related: Is The Harder They Fall Based On A True Story? History Explained
While the song that Nat Love sings, written by Jeymes Samuel, speaks to the relationship between Love and Fields, its reprise is what locks in the idea that Buck and Love are brothers. Therefore, it is safe to assume that any use of music, especially when sung by the characters, is intended to be significant. In the same scene where Nat Love offers Stagecoach Mary his parents’ ring, he sings a song to her called “ Away with the Wind She Goes.” Jeymes Samuel is also a singer/songwriter and music producer and wrote many of the songs in The Harder They Fall specifically for the movie. Rufus then continues to toy with the ring in other scenes, with the camera often focusing on it, and Rufus still has it on him when Love kills him at the end of the film. Its pairing with the explanation of his scarring of Nat Love only serves to emphasize this. The fact that the ring seems significant to Buck is the first clue that he has a stronger connection to Nat Love and his family than simple business or outlaw dealing. He toys with it as he explains to Nat Love why he carved the cross into his forehead, citing that he wanted to know who Love was when Love inevitably came to exact vengeance. The ring falls to the floor and Rufus Buck picks the ring up. She rejects the ring and it is next seen when Rufus Buck orders Nat Love cut down while he holds him prisoner. He later offers the ring to Mary before she departs for Redtown and explains that it was the ring that his father gave to his mother. The camera focuses on it, but he doesn’t get a chance to offer it to her as they are interrupted by Bill Pickett (Edi Gathegi). As things get amorous, he pulls out a ring on a leather strap. When Nat Love arrives in Douglasville and meets up with Stagecoach Mary Fields (Zazie Beetz), it doesn’t take too long for them to find themselves in a room alone together.
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