Exclusive: Joshua Boone and Solea Pfeiffer talk Tyler Perry's A Jazzman's Blues
Currently playing on Netflis is A Jazzman’s Blues, written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry. The cast includes Joshua Boone, Amirah Vann, Solea Pfeiffer, Austin Scott, Milauna Jemai Jackson, Brent Antonello, Brad Benedict, Kario Marcel, Lana Young and Ryan Eggold.
A sweeping tale of forbidden love, A JAZZMAN'S BLUES unspools forty years of secrets and lies soundtracked by juke joint blues in the deep South.
In 1987, a stack of letters is delivered to a state attorney general, possible evidence in the long-unsolved murder case of Bayou (Joshua Boone). Leap back to 1947 Georgia, where Bayou first meets Leanne (Solea Pfieffer). They fall in love, but Leanne’s relatives forbid the relationship, and the couple are torn apart. When they meet again years later, Bayou has become a song-and-dance sensation and Leanne has married another man — and is passing as white. Their desire for each other reignited, they conspire to escape together, but dangerous secrets from their past threaten to destroy their relationship permanently.
Joshua Boone was last seen on Broadway in Skeleton Crew opposite Phylicia Rashad and previously played the lead role in director Rashaad Ernesto Green’s film Premature. Boone also acted in the stage production of Holla If Ya Hear Me.
A theater actress as well, Solea Pfeiffer performed in the 2016 production of West Side Story at the Hollywood Bowl, opposite Jeremy Jordan and Karen Olivo. She then went on to star in the first national tour of Hamilton, playing Eliza. Pfeiffer starred in the New York City Center's production of Evita. She was Guenevere in the one-night-only performance of Camelot, alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda. Pfeiffer made her Broadway debut this fall in Almost Famous.
Blackfilmandtv.com correspondent Sidnee Michelle spoke with Boone and Pfeiffer about working and acting in Tyler Perry’s film.