'I was blown away.'
star continued: "My entry point was just Jann's story. I was sent a bunch of articles, a bunch of podcasts and I met with [co-writer] Jason Hall just to talk about Jann. I was blown away by the story.
"I couldn't believe it was real, couldn't believe no one had told it before and I couldn't believe a huge studio like Sony were telling this young, mixed-race, English guy's story on this huge scale. I was so excited about how inspiring that story could potentially be.
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