Kirby, at 27, is older than Burton, as well as quieter and more watchful. The horror of his kidnapping and enslavement was magnified by his youthfulness. His Kunta was energetically adolescent, full of irrepressible high spirits, warm and open. LeVar Burton was 20 when he played Kunta Kinte, but he looked even younger. It is the part of the new version that compares most unfavorably to the old. The first hour of Roots takes place in Juffure and is a coming-of-age tale, one that illustrates the richness of Kunta’s life and culture before he was enslaved. (Hayley is played in brief, needless narration by Laurence Fishburne.) It begins in Juffure, Gambia, in 1750, where Kunta Kinte is born, raised, trained to be a warrior, kidnapped, and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean. Roots traces the history of Alex Haley’s ancestors.
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