{"id":79525,"date":"2019-11-14T00:47:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T04:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=79525"},"modified":"2019-11-14T00:47:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T04:47:10","slug":"rastafarian-community-excited-as-young-rasta-stars-in-feature-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/rastafarian-community-excited-as-young-rasta-stars-in-feature-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Rastafarian community excited as young Rasta stars in feature film"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of the Nyabinghi Rastafari community at Creekside say they can\u2019t wait for Fox Searchlight\u2019s feature film\u00a0Wendy<\/i>\u00a0to hit theaters next year.<\/p>

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\u201cWe are opening the cinemas. You\u2019re gonna walk over us to get into the cinemas. We are going to be there full force\u201d, said Princess Mack, a teacher within the community.<\/p>\n

Yashua Mack, who stars as Peter Pan in the film, is a young Antiguan Rasta.<\/p>

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His father, Osagyefoo told state media he sanctioned his son\u2019s participation in the film only after certain assurances were given.<\/p>

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\u201cIt\u2019s economical benefit I\u2019m concerned about and no abuse and anything that\u2019s immoral and so on. I done let them know that if my son going participate in your program, it has to be a Rasta outlook\u201d, the father said.<\/p>\n

The movie is a modern take on the Peter Pan story from the point of view of Wendy Darling.<\/p>

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Wendy meets Peter Pan after she becomes lost on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued.<\/p>\n

Princess Mack said it was a community effort to get the young actor ready for the big screen.<\/p>

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\u201cHe didn\u2019t know how to swim, he\u2019s five years old, his reading is not at cue but, you know, they trained him, we trained him in swimming, you know, the teachers had to double-up on their lessons to get him to able to read his scripts\u201d, she recalled.<\/p>

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\u201cHe was successful in the swimming lessons that he got, superb, and the filming start. It seems like nothing was happening and after two years, the filming started and Yashua took it like a professional\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOther children had the opportunity to be a part of the setting where one of the students had to leave school\u201d, the teacher revealed.<\/p>\n