Damson Idris To Star In New Romance Film ‘Miles & Juliette’ With Anamaria Vartolomei

Damson Idris is gearing up for his next big role in the Mick Jagger-produced romance film ‘Miles & Juliette’, which explores the passionate love life of legendary jazz musician Miles Davis. Idris will portray the young pioneering artist alongside Anamaria Vartolomei as Juliette Gréco–his lover, the esteemed French singer and actress he met during a life-changing trip to Paris in 1946. Pulitzer Prize finalist Zora Howard is writing the screenplay, with Bill Pohlad directing.

Miles Davis is regarded as one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time, rising to prominence in the early 1940s and transforming the genre’s soundscape throughout his career. By 1944, he was studying at The Julliard School in New York and soon began to work with the likes of Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Billy Eckstine, and Benny Carter. These collaborations in the 1940s led to first major compilation album, ‘Birth of the Cool', recorded with his nonet and released in 1957. That same year, he began film scoring when acclaimed French director Louis Malle invited him to compose the soundtrack for ‘Ascenseur pour l’Échafaud’ (1958), showcasing how his music improvisations accentuate storytelling in film. His extraordinary contributions to music and culture earned him the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990, just one year before his passing  in 1991.

Now, Damson Idris takes on the role of Miles Davis in ‘Miles & Juliette,’ bringing the jazz icon’s formative years and passionate love affair with Juliette Gréco back to life on the big screen for a cinematic medley of romance, artistry, and the music that tied it all together. 

– Dominique Young