All Is by My Side

Who hasn't heard of Jimi (with one "m") Hendrix? Many people, but even those who listened to his songs, do not know what he was like in life. This mistake was tried to be corrected by John Ridley, who, using the example of one of the periods of the musician's life, decided to show the essence of his music and soul. Jim had every chance not to get on the podium of fame, if it were not for his performance in one of the New York clubs. It was 1966, then he was seen by Linda Keith, girlfriend of Keith Richards, the same from the Rolling Stones. So the musician becomes interesting and signs a contract with his first manager, Chos Chandler. Read more This biographical film became one of the greatest artistic descriptions of the life positions and ways of young Jimi. During preparation by the creators, in particular, director John Ridley, who won an Oscar for the script of the drama "12 Years a Slave." In order to display various important details and events of "Jimi Hendrix" at a decent level, chronicle videos and interviews were used during the work. It was based on these materials that the script was created, on which Ridley himself worked. For the director, the biopic "Jimi Hendrix" became the second full-length film shot as a director. Before that, he was mostly involved in screenwriting and sometimes directing TV series. An interesting fact is that Andre 3000 Benjamin was as much as thirteen years older than Hendrix, which, however, did not prevent him from playing him. The main reason for this was that he is quite similar to his screen hero, especially in make-up. The house of the musician himself was also going to be used for the filming of the film. But the owners were against the full use of the real estate during the creation of the film biography. Otherwise, the filming took place almost entirely on the territory of Ireland.