With two albums and quite a few singles, Greyson Likelihood has confirmed he can sing – however can he act? He tells HL EXCLUSIVELY about how he bridged the 2 mediums in his first function movie function.
Lights! Digital camera! Greyson! Singer-songwriter Greyson Likelihood is about to make his function movie performing debut, portraying Danné Montague-King within the upcoming film, Maybelline Prince. Based mostly on the novel of the identical title by Montague-King, Greyson stars reverse Robyn Cruz (Huge Sky), Jamie Bernadette, and extra in a retelling of how EvelynWilliams, an getting old magnificence and socialite who impressed the creation of the Maybelline make-up model, and Danné King, an “eccentric, homosexual skin-care scientist.” Their friendship would change their lives ceaselessly, and such a task truly intimidated Greyson. “At first, I used to be very nervous and fairly skeptical to tackle the [part of Danné],” he tells HollywoodLife.’
“I’ve all the time been an enormous fan of movie, however I by no means pictured a world through which I'd be performing; I didn’t assume I had the talent to take action,” Greyson says in an EXCLUSIVE interview. “It was after assembly Danné that I made a decision to tackle the function… you see, Danné’s a performer, and I've been performing since I used to be 12-years-old. Rapidly, it clicked in my head that maybe the 2 mediums, singing, and performing, weren’t truly that completely different.”
Whereas Greyson has acted in music movies – and in a handful of episodes of the Elevating Hope TV collection – an element in a function movie is a horse of a unique shade. “The most important problem was simply having to retain a confidence inside myself,” he explains. “You see, with my music profession, I'm the man in cost, the one with the ultimate say. That wasn’t the case with a manufacturing like this through which I'm 1 of 40 folks on set. I discovered myself meditating within the mornings earlier than going to set, hyping myself up in a manner, and reminding myself that I used to be adequate to have a seat on the desk. That was the most important problem.”
Plus, Greyson portrays an actual one that continues to be very a lot alive, and that’s a problem in itself. “I spent a number of weeks finding out something and the whole lot that I might discover on-line about Danné,” he tells HollywoodLife when requested how he prepped for the movie. “Movies, interviews, articles, the entire nine-yards
“Nearer to the start of filming, I then spent a protracted 6-hour night with Danné, the place I got here in with, I believe round 100 questions,” he continues. “I’ve all the time been an over-preparer. After that have, as I'd say to my mates, I ‘walked’ with him. I'd prance round my home in all of my jewellery and start speaking like Danné, doing issues I believe he would have executed, saying issues I believe he would have mentioned. For 3 months, I really felt as if I used to be him.”
Maybelline Prince will seemingly be the primary time viewers are launched to Danné, Evelyn, and their story. Greyson is conscious of that, and as an alternative of seeing a problem, he sees a chance. “I wasn’t conscious of the story earlier than studying the script, and I don’t assume most individuals will know this story both; there’s a magnificence inside that ambiguity,” he says. “There are specific tales in life which are too fascinating, too weird, and too symbiotic to not be written about… The Maybelline Prince is a kind of tales. I believe it should take folks abruptly.”
“I hope they see the sweetness inside this story, and perceive how remarkably wild life could be, generally,” concludes Greyson. “As a viewer, they may even witness my character turning into extremely humanized within the movie by his experiences. For me, taking part in Danné taught me to decelerate and benefit from the shade inside my very own life; I hope that resonates, too.”
Maybelline Prince, directed by Seth Harden, just lately wrapped filming.