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Blacklist Star Harry Lennix Talks About Making a Gospel Musical

The actor explains how Revival The Experience is God s gift to cinema

Larry French/Getty Images for Harry Lennix’s Film Revival! Get instant access to members-only products and hundreds of discounts, a free second membership, and a subscription to AARP the Magazine. For entertainment news, advice and more, . Harry Lennix as Harold Cooper and Martha Plimpton as Dr. Sharon Fulton in “The Blacklist.” Virginia Sherwood/NBC Most of the lead actors are black, including the versatile Mali Music as Jesus, Chaka Khan, 65, as Herodias, Destiny’s Child’s Michelle Williams (who was also just cast as Diana Ross in the upcoming film Soul Train) as Mary Magdalene, and Lennix as Pontius Pilate. Says Lennix, “Mali Music wrote most of the songs — he got Grammy nominations in gospel, urban contemporary and traditional R&B, and he can somehow write in any style.” Flowers & Gifts 25% off sitewide and 30% off select items See more Flowers & Gifts offers > Lennix, who believes getting The Blacklist role at the very moment he was about to quit the business was providential, thinks somebody up there likes his idea of faith films that tap a wide market. “I don’t believe in any way that these things are coincidence. I really don’t. I think The Blacklist came along so that Revival! could exist. I believe my willingness to walk away from it all created that opportunity. I believe that opportunity is not for my benefit alone, but to engender this new idea of what we’re calling ‘black faith entertainment,’ to continue to prove that quality, adult-level entertainment like Revival! and The Blacklist can exist and endure.”
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