When he took up the mantle of Harlem detective John Shaft for the 2000 action reboot “Shaft,” Samuel L. Jackson knew his character, John Shaft II, would need a persona of his own.
Jessie T. Usher, left, Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Roundtree star in the newest"Shaft" movie.
And they’re not alone. Jessie T. Usher , 27, brings new dimension to the family name as JJ, the estranged son who reluctantly turns to his dad for help when his best friend, a Muslim American veteran , is murdered. “You found your dad’s long coat and put it on and acted like you were Shaft,” said Story. “Just as much as I wanted to play Batman, I wanted to play Shaft.”
But dropping Shaft into a comedy — and into 2019 — invites a modern consideration of the private eye, who hasn’t changed much over the years. Rather than make Shaft’s outdated attitudes merely the joke, the film creates a conversation out of his generational clashes with his son, one of few people in the world unimpressed with him, while revealing that Shaft is more conscious of his own foibles than he might seem.
It led to other movies, like the Civil War-set “Charley One-Eye” and star-studded disaster drama “Earthquake.” But by 1975, he told film critic Roger Ebert in an interview for his film “Man Friday,” a Cannes competition entry that flipped the perspective on Robinson Crusoe lore, he was done playing John Shaft.
The seminal “Shaft,” which was nominated for two Oscars and won one, for Isaac Hayes’ funk-soul theme, earned the New York native a Golden Globe nomination and instantly established him as a beacon of cool, confident masculinity for an audience hungry for cathartic representation. To find the next generation’s Shaft — a new star who can potentially carry the franchise forward — the filmmakers knew they’d need a young actor who could hold his own opposite both Roundtree and Jackson.
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