Jay-Z, Jesus and me — the Brit behind The Book of Clarence

‘We’ve never, ever in the history of Hollywood had a movie like The Book of Clarence,” says Jeymes Samuel, writer and director of said movie. We’re certainly not inundated with New Testament comedy-dramas in which the Jews are played by black actors, the Romans by white British and Irish actors, and where the cast formation-dance to the disco classic Nights Over Egypt. LaKeith Stanfield (Atlanta, Sorry to Bother You) stars as Clarence, a weed-dealing, chariot-racing Jerusalem street hustler in AD33 who notes the success of Jesus and sees dollar (or shekel) signs. Maybe he should get into the messiah game. Jay-Z is one of the producers and features on the soundtrack alongside Doja Cat and Jorja Smith, while the cast