They would end up performing together in their younger years, though Leroy never pursued music as a career.Īt a dinner scene, John mentions that “Leroy wanted to be in band,” which screen Logan denies, although real-life Logan writes that he did at one point consider becoming a full-time musician during his work with John. The music aspect is significant here for another reason: It was in grade school where he met and became lifelong friends with the to-be-famous singer and bandleader Leee John (Tyrone Huntley). According to Logan’s memoir, Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop (which was published this year and features a foreword from McQueen), this kind of incident happened “on several occasions” as he left his music practices-and while it certainly made him nervous about the Met, it didn’t stop him from likewise being inspired by the Black cops he’d seen in his home country of Jamaica. While there, he gets approached by some cops, who frisk him and start looking through his belongings before Leroy’s father, Ken (Steve Toussaint), comes by to yell at the officers for harassing a child. The first shots of Red, White and Blue show Leroy as a child (Nathan Vidal) standing in front of a school, holding an instrument case and waiting to be picked up.
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