Jay-Z spent some time in the UK yesterday as he and his wife Beyonce attended the BFI London Film Festival at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. Promoting the upcoming Netflix film, which HOV produced, titled ‘The Harder They Fall,’ the 23-time Grammy award-winning mogul shared why he believes the new movie is instrumental in Black representation in Western films.
In a statement to PA Media, Jay expresses the importance of sharing often untold and unknown stories of Black influence, stating, ”Just to see us represented, you know, with a lot of films we didn’t see ourselves in Westerns, as if we didn’t exist. It is almost odd, people think that it’s like a caricature, that they are playing roles, but they’re not playing roles.”