Buddy Guy Talks ‘Sinners’ Post-Credits Scene

Buddy Guy would do almost anything for the blues. Then, when the guitarist and the singer received a role for a role in the drama of the Ryan Coogler “Sinner” musical period period, the answer was easy.

Then the nerves were launched.

“Man, I had chicken grains everywhere. I could barely sleep that night after shooting and last night,” said Guy, who turns 89 in July, in a telephone interview from his home in Chicago. In his main scene in front of Michael B. Jordan and Hailee Steinfeld, in a bar after the film jumps from the 1930s to the 90s, he said he almost needed a rigid drink.

“I never drank alcohol until I with muddy waters and them, and they said:” If you drink a little Scottish school, friend, your nerves would be a little better. “And that was the filming of the Scottish duration of the school, which was just water, but I hoped they would bring me a chance because I wanted me to see me shake,” he said with a smile.

In the film, which has become a box office and critical success, and a cultural phenomenon, Guy portrays the previous version of Sammie Moore, a blues musician played by Miles Caton in his early years. (The plot revolves around the Smokestack twins, both played by Jordan, and their efforts to remove vampires, which sacrifices Sammie Edu’s life for). Guy said he had the whole movie: “I am afraid to see it” no “,” wait “” sinners “, the gap between younger audiences and all blas, and spills a light on the genre.

“I saw a small clip of the movie and said:” Wow, this can help blues stay alive. “A boy who never listened to the blues could wake up and say:” I will see that, “said Guy.” Blues has been treated as a stepson since the great FM stations came out, “he added. He said he promised Waters and Bb King” that he would try to keep the blues alive because the blues is the story of all the music. “

The frequent collaborator of Coogler, Ludwig Gorasson, the composer and executive producer of “Sinners”, left Geek when he went to Chicago to record a new song with Guy, a 12 bars blues called “Travelin”. “Gorasson, who grew up in Sweden, learned to play the guitar when he was a child and shares his love for the instrument with his father, who is a blues guitarist and guitar teacher.

“Half of the day was just asking questions and getting a lot of useful information because, I mean, it is obviously a living legend,” said the 40 -year -old musician. “I told my dad that I go to the studio with Buddy Guy was surreal.” (Coogler’s film is also personal for the director; it is partly a tribute to his uncle James, who was from Mississippi and loved Blues’s music).

Gorasson said that the influential Bluesman are House was one of Coogler’s models for “sinners”, and before meeting Guy, Gorasson saw a youtube clip of the two playing the guitar and discussing the evolution of music. “That is part of what the film is,” said the composer, adding that he sees his final minutes, when Guy collects the guitar, as the most powerful part of the film. “This is how it touches it. You can listen to all the music in that minute and a half of it playing.”

The sound of the blues is in the center of “sinners” and its main inspiration is the mythical encounter of the legend of the blues Robert Johnson with the devil, in which he exchanged his soul for musical skill. “That story has come out for a while,” said Guy, “but I’m from Louisiana and I don’t believe in everything.” He greeted the idea or voodoo: “In my mind, I say:” Oh, friend, you don’t believe in all those things. “Because an admirer can tell you how to earn money, but he can’t tell himself how to earn money, so I never fell in love with that.”

“Sinners” has a 22 -song soundtrack that presents a mixture of original originals and clues, including the gospel classic “This Light of Mine” and the popular melody “Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?” Alhy’s fruise ‘, trevelin’ and contribution and contribution and contribution and contribution and contribution and contribution and contribution and contribution and inspvelin and contribution and contribution and contribution and contribution and contribution and contribution and contribution and perspelin ”and contribution and contribution and contribution ‘, and contribution’, and contribution ‘, and contribution’, and contribution, and contribution ‘, and contribution’, and contribution ‘, and contribution’ James Blake, Rod Wave, Rhiannon Giddens and Don Toliver.

Gorasson said that he was obviously impressed with Guy’s musicality on the screen, but his acting skills were also notable: “When we tried this movie, as soon as it appeared in the movie, people immediately knew that this is something special.”

“Sinners” is not the first Guy film: he technically made his debut as an actor in the 2009 Thriller “in Electric Mist”, a film set in Louisiana, starring Tommy Lee Jones, which had a limited release in the United States.

“I don’t know if it was just because it was from Louisiana, but they are going to do that to me,” said Guy, who was born and grew up in Lettsworth, a small city about 60 miles from Baton Rouge. “But I was surprised then. I was surprised since I am this because the time I turn around someone calls me and tells me:” Man, friend, did you see the movie? “

Hello, he compared the success of “sinners” with meeting his idols of blues for the first time: “When I first saw BB King, I was afraid to say anything, he and muddy waters and all those big people, his house, that And it is not true.

Guy will go on the road next month: “When you get my age, you can’t jump from the stage as I did, I was 23 years old, but I’m still going to give 100 percent,” and remains dedicated to reaching yourself, and your companions great blues.

“If you have flowers for me, give them to smell them because it does not smell in the coffin,” Louisiana state officials reminded Buddy Guy Way in 2018. Where he picked up cotton when he was a child. It happened last year.

“I don’t cry so much, but I cried that day because many musicians should be more recognized than us,” he said. “I will be fighting for that while I am alive because the music has led to the music you obtained today. And they should be remembered.”

That’s why I was so excited to be part of “sinners”: “I continued to pinch Myelf, saying:” Are you really a friend? Is this your friend? “Because I did an education in high school and I always felt that” I know quiet friend. “That could be more active.

“What is necessary to keep the blues alive,” he said, “just ask me and I will be there before dawn.”