Ziggy Marley says it’s time to spread ‘this message of one love’ with Bob Marley biopic

Ziggy Marley, left, cast Kingsley Ben-Adir to play his father because he was “somebody who could capture the emotion of Bob — not just the dialect, not even the look, but the emotion.” When Ziggy Marley cast Kingsley Ben-Adir and Lashana Lynch as his parents in “One Love,” the long-awaited Bob Marley biopic, the three made a pact: If the studio didn’t do right by them, they’d jump ship. Ziggy Marley said this season of his father’s life “made him decide what his purpose was.” The screenplay quotes almost verbatim from Bob Marley: “If my life is for myself, I don’t want it. “We don’t need for tell a story from birth to death to know this.” Still, there were some scenes Ziggy Marley struggled to part with, including one in which the Wailers fight and break up. “He’s in it for the real thing,” Ziggy Marley said, “not like somebody to come, like, tell you what you want to hear or lift up your ego, but working to what is the best thing for the film.” Still, Green was always respectful of the Marley family’s commitment to “telling the story how we wanted to tell it,” Ziggy Marley said.