Zazie Beetz on The Harder They Fall and Atlanta Season 3 and 4

With director Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall now streaming on Netflix, I recently spoke to Zazie Beetz about making the revenge-soaked Western. During the interview, she talked about why she loved making her first western, how she researched her role, what it was like filming the 3rd act shootout, what it was like having a director that would sing and play guitar between takes, and more. In addition, she talked about filming Atlanta Season 3 in Europe and how she’s currently shooting Season 4 in Atlanta right now. If you haven’t seen the trailers, the all-Black Western follows outlaw Nat Love (Jonathan Majors), who rounds up his old gang to help him seek revenge when he discovers that the man (Idris Elba) who killed his parents two decades ago, is being released from prison. What’s cool and unique about the film is Samuel has gathered real people (like Rufus Buck, Cherokee Bill, Stagecoach Mary, and Jim Beckwourth) who lived in different times in the 19th century and brought them all together to