Roots remake star `a vessel` for powerful story

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Roots remake star ‘a vessel’ for powerful story
PATRICK RYAN
Tribune News Service
NEW YORK — LeVar Burton was
only a sophomore at the University of Southern California when
he was cast as Roots’ enslaved
hero Kunta Kinte. Arriving on
the series’ Savannah, Georgia.,
set in spring 1976, he remembers
feeling both overwhelmed and
humbled.
“My first day as a professional
actor, Cicely Tyson played my
mother and Maya Angelou played
my grandmother,” says Burton,
59. “I was surrounded by idols of
mine that I had admired my whole
life, and they were excited. It was
impossible not to feel like you
were part of something remarkable, but no one had any inkling
that it would create the cultural
tsunami that it did.”
When Roots aired over eight
consecutive nights on ABC in Jan-
uary 1977, it became nothing
short of a phenomenon: averaging
80 million viewers per episode
and more than 100 million for
its final instalment. The series
was nominated for 37 Emmy
Awards (winning nine), and was a
launching pad for Burton, who
went on to play Lt. Cmdr. Geordi
La Forge in Star Trek: The Next
Generation and host PBS’ Reading
Rainbow.
Now, he passes Kunta to
Malachi Kirby, star of History’s
four-night Roots remake (Monday,
9 p.m.). Having only appeared
previously in British series such
as EastEnders and Doctor Who,
the 26-year-old unknown was cast
from a pool of more than 3,500
actors last year.
Executive producer Mark
Wolper says Kirby’s intensity
made him an ideal fit for Kunta,
a West African warrior who is
captured and sold into slavery in
the 18th-century United States.
“The reason why LeVar Burton
worked in the first Roots was
because you could see this guy’s
soul,” Wolper says.
“It’s the same thing with
Malachi. You could see his soul
and see that he was a powerful
warrior.”
The key for Kirby was not to
try to recreate Burton’s performance — a realization he came to at
the first table read with the cast.
“I was in a room filled with
people who brought these characters to life,” Kirby said.
“That was the first time I
looked in the mirror and was like,
‘Why am I here?’ I didn’t feel like
I was good enough. I prayed and
came to God about it, and what
came to me was: This was never
about me. I’m a vessel. Get out of
the way and just let this story be
told.”
The remake, also airing on
A&E and Lifetime, was shot
between South Africa and
Louisiana last summer. It draws
from both the original miniseries
and the 1976 Alex Haley novel on
which it’s based.
One of the most taxing scenes
for Kirby was an early one, in
which Kunta is repeatedly
whipped until he says his slave
name, Toby — a brutal moment
from the first Roots that Burton
says took him a week to mentally
prepare for. Kirby was similarly
overcome with emotion filming it,
as Kunta has his identity literally
beaten out of him.
“That took me to a place psychologically that I wasn’t prepared for,” Kirby said.
“I was never touched with the
whip, but I may as well have been
for whatever was going on with
me. The pain I was responding to
was far worse.”
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Doodle Lucky dragon dumplings;
oatmeal cookie in a jar.
3:45 p.m. G Lego Star Wars:
Droid Tales C-3PO and R2-D2
regale Luke and the rebels with
tales of their adventures.
4 p.m. 2 Biz Kid$ Stories
behind the Frisbee, Slinky and
blue jeans; lemonade stand.
4:10 p.m. G Lego Star Wars:
Droid Tales C-3PO and Ackbar
pursue the Mysterious Figure
who stole Ackbar’s ship.
4:40 p.m. G Lego Star Wars:
Droid Tales C-3PO recounts an
adventure in an effort to find
R2-D2, who has been kidnapped.
5:05 p.m. G Lego Star Wars:
Droid Tales C-3PO recounts the
events of “The Empire Strikes
Back.”
5:30 p.m. G Lego Star Wars:
Droid Tales C-3PO and R2-D2
are being held captive in the
Geonosis Battledroid factory.
SUNDAY
Guests on Today’s Talk
Shows
6:30 a.m. , The Social See 1
p.m.
4:30 p.m. 2 Teen Kids News
Helping girls around the
world get an education; going
“green”; energy drinks; heat
cramps. (N)