He dissolves into his characters sometimes it seems more like he’s transcribing his own moods than reciting lines. But it was Stanfield, playing Marcus, who left the most lasting impression. Theories abound that the movie is charmed its lead actors Rami Malek and Brie Larson are big names now. His first role was that of an emotionally volatile kid about to age out of a group home for at-risk teens, in a thesis film-turned-small budget feature called Short Term 12. The truth is that Stanfield hasn’t been outside the public’s sphere of attention since he found his way into it ten years ago, as a 21-year-old off-the-radar newcomer from San Bernardino, California, who didn’t own a cell phone and had been most recently employed at a weed grow house. It doesn’t seem irrational to wonder if, by now, Stanfield has grown tired of the weathering demands of celebrity: the end less procession of reporters, the fans interrupting dinners with weed offerings or impressions of his characters, the ambient expectation that he should always be available to entertain.
There is the sense that you’ve arrived at the world’s outer limit – or at least the end of California. From 2,000 feet above Malibu, perched at the summit of the dry hill-scape, the sky out over the city blends seamlessly with the Pacific Ocean, to the point where it’s difficult to tell one from the other in the vast expanse of blue. Everyone seems a little on edge and, geographically speaking, they are. Rattlesnakes forage in the dry chaparral. The crew paces back and forth under the hot sun. His absence has engendered a slightly anxious mood on set. It’s two hours past call time and LaKeith Stanfield still hasn’t shown up for the cover shoot. This project is taken from the Autumn/Winter 2023 issue of AnOther Magazine and was realised before the SAG-AFTRA strike was announced:
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