{"id":2107,"date":"2021-09-24T05:38:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T05:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2021-09-24T05:49:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T05:49:07","slug":"everton-dennis-goes-ragga-in-gangland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2107","title":{"rendered":"Everton Dennis goes Ragga in Gangland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nine years ago, fans in the Greater Toronto Area got to see Everton \u201cE-Dee\u201d Dennis play out his life in the movie, <\/span><b><i>Out the Gate<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In it, he co-starred with fellow Jamaicans Oliver Samuels and Paul Campbell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dennis has slowly built a solid resume in Hollywood. His latest project is the movie, <\/span><b><i>Gangland Musical<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in which he plays Ragga, a Jamaican gangster. Inspired by the timeless melodrama, <\/span><b><i>Romeo and Juliet<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it officially opened September 3 on Starz, Amazon Prime and Hulu. Directed by Jean-Claude La Marre, its prime stars are Wood Harris, Tamar Braxton and Keith Robinson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Gangland Musical<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is Dennis\u2019 second film with La Marre, who is of Haitian heritage. He had a small role in 2017\u2019s <\/span><b><i>Chocolate City 3<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but so impressed the director, he got a more expansive role as Ragga whom he describes as \u201ca confident gangster that no one wants to cross.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2109 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/everton-22-300x170.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/everton-22-300x170.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/everton-22-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/everton-22-768x436.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/everton-22-600x337.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/everton-22.jpeg 1121w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lanky Dennis is from Clarendon, a sugar belt parish in rural Jamaica. He has lived in Los Angeles for almost 20 years, doubling as a recording artist and actor. His songs include <\/span><b><i>Needed Me<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (with Wayne Wonder) and <\/span><b><i>Fancy Face<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The latter is his latest release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Out The Gate<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> premiered in 2011 in New York. It also made stops in Atlanta, London and Toronto, showing to receptive audiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Though many Jamaican actors and Jamaicans consider underworld roles demeaning, Dennis sees nothing wrong with being a tough guy. \u201cI love the gangster role that I am getting now. It was always my dream,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine years ago, fans in the Greater Toronto Area got to see Everton \u201cE-Dee\u201d Dennis play out his life in the movie, Out the Gate. In it, he co-starred with fellow Jamaicans Oliver Samuels and Paul Campbell. Dennis has slowly built a solid resume in Hollywood. His latest project is the movie, Gangland Musical, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}