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Chaka Khan — Ain’t Nobody [Frankie Knuckles Remix]

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Ne-Yo Excited by Movie

Shaffer Chimere Smith, better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, acknowledges the fact that he is supposed to play an African-American pilot in the World War II movie “Red Tails.” The Arkansas born hip-hop star said last week in an interview that he auditioned for the role like many others and did not want to get it just because he was already well known. He said he did a ‘cold’ read of his role, which got him the role of Andrew “Smoky” Salem.

Ne-Yo describes Andrew “Smoky” Salem as a more lighthearted version of the real-life characters on which his role is based on. Between the years 1943 and 1945, the African-American pilots of the Tuskegee Airmen shot down numerous Nazi German aircrafts. It took more than two decades for George Lucas to finally get the idea of this movie portrayed onto the big screen.

The movie was shot in Prague. To ensure authenticity, director Anthony Hemingway felt that it was important for his actors to bond and develop closeness in the same way the Tuskegee Airmen did. The Airmen symbolized a band of brothers who stood against the racist idea that the blacks were cowardly and mentally inferior to the whites.

In his interview, Ne-Yo referred to his sci-fi movie ‘Battle: Los Angeles,’ and said that he has the experience of doing a boot camp previously. However, the boot camp in that movie involved present-day marines. He confessed that doing a boot camp for “Red Tails” was difficult, especially since the movie tells a story that is set in 1942.

The director decided that to create the effective mood for the movie, the cast involved should listen to music that is from 1940s. The clothing and food they use should be from the same era as well. Ne-Yo says that while filming they survived on rations, lived in tents and tolerated the snowy cold weather.

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D:ream – things can only get better

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