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One Love: How Kingsley Ben-Adir became Bob Marley on the set of Barbie
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Actor Kingsley Ben-Adir knows what its like to play an iconic black leader.
In the last four years, he has portrayed former US president Barack Obama in The Comey Rule and civil rights activist Malcolm X in One Night In Miami.
But even for him, the prospect of becoming Bob Marley was daunting.
"You can't mimic him, you can't copy him, you can't choreograph him," says the 37-year-old. "It's just not possible. It's too spontaneous."
So when the opportunity first arose, he turned it down. The weight and the risk simply felt too big.
"It's a heavy burden and a very serious role," agrees Ziggy Marley, Bob's son and one of the custodians of his legacy.
"You look and you say, 'Who can hold this?'"
The search took more than 30 years. Martin Scor
