Hollywood Stud Joel Kinnaman Tells Us How He Put Common Up On Game: “He Was Like, ‘Oh Sh*t! I Haven’t Heard This!'”

[After teaming up with Liam Neeson and Common for their new “Run All Night” thrill ride, actor Joel Kinnaman tells SOHH about the experience and how music sometimes prepares him for his biggest on-screen roles.]

I was listening to Jay Electronica [during the “Run All Night” production]. I remember I played [music] to [co-star] Common and he was like, “Oh sh*t! I haven’t heard this!” I played a song to Common that he hadn’t heard. That made my day.

I had the biggest premiere of my life, after I had gotten out of acting school, I was in a big play for “Crime & Punishment,” and it was the opening of a new national theater and it had received as much coverage for a play you could receive in Sweden.

I was the centerpiece and couldn’t leave the stage for three hours and forty-five minutes, so it was on me.

And for some reason, I was listening to Bob Marley and jamming and it worked out really well.