Interviews

Interview: Kelvin Harrison Jr. – Anthony Mandler’s Monster

Published on May 6, 2021

Kelvin Harrison Jr. first came to Sundance with Birth of a Nation in 2016, then Oscar-nominated Mudbound in 2017. This past year, he was in a whopping three Sundance films: Assassination Nation, Monsters and Men, and, Monster. His other credits include It Comes at Night, a self-directed short Behind the Blue Eyes, and a myriad of upcoming indies. Why is Harrison Jr. such a hot item? Besides this New Orleans-born actor’s good taste in scripts and natural onscreen presence … hearing his thoughtful responses to our questions helped paint the picture. Watch the interview on the Monster red carpet below:

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Dylan Kai Dempsey

Dylan Kai Dempsey is a New York-based writer/filmmaker. His reviews have been published in Vanity Fair, Variety, No Film School, Nonfiction.fr and IONCINEMA.com. He’s also developing a graphic novel as well as his own award-winning pilot script, #Likes4Lucas. He began as a development intern at Bonafide Productions in L.A. and Rainmark Productions in London.