We chat with Ronke Adekoluejo (radekoluejo) about her role as Nanon, mother of the unfairly forgotten musical master Joseph Bologne, in the profound searchlightpics film Chevalier
The new Searchlight Pictures film Chevalier is re-introducing the world to one of the most prodigious composers and violinists of the 18th century. Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was born to an enslaved Senegalese woman before being taken to France. He eventually rose to recognition in the court of Marie Antoinette as a musical master, an exceptional fencer, and a singularly talented violinist.
Ronke Adekoluejo: It was so strange because I was actually doing a TV show at the same time, and before the [Chevalier] script came, we were shooting in a BBC building or something like that. They had this office dedicated to musicians of that time, and Lenny Henry had actually scribed a book that was just on Joseph. I was in this room about to do my take and I saw this book, and I was like, "Oh, what is that?" and I opened it. Then, like three days later, the script came through.
Ronke Adekoluejo: I really wanted her strength to also be based in her vulnerability and her softness, and [that] her desire to see her son again is actually what has kept her alive. I feel like sometimes when things have been ripped from us and ripped from our bodies, it can leave a hole that is unfillable.
I went deep into that research and tried to find those women; I had pictures of those women up in my apartment when I was creating my character. [Part of it was] understanding that there is a desire to quit because it might be easier, but then there's something else that's born in these women that go, "No, we are not quitters. We don't quit." There's a scene where my character says, "You always have a choice. And you choose to fight.
There's a scene early on that really got me, where you start speaking, and the Chevalier is like, "French is the preferred language." It feels like that one moment speaks to their relationship so much. How would you define the relationship between Nanon and her son once she was in Paris? Also, understanding displacement can create a real fracture in who we are as people, and I feel like Nanon is very aware of this for her son. She gives them grace, she [doesn't] tell him to shut up rather than talking, but it's all of that that you have to think about. That's why it's so painful in that moment, that that's the choice he decides to make, in the sense that "We don't talk like that around here," and she's like, "Okay, yeah.
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