These are the real-life figures that inspired Netflix's 'The Harder They Fall'
Jeymes Samuel's revisionist Western "The Harder They Fall" assembles an all-star cast of both actors and legendary Black Western figures from across time for a fictional story about two rival groups, the Nat Love and the Rufus Buck gangs.
In real life, the two men likely never crossed paths. And Samuel's blind casting process led him to choose Idris Elba for the role of Buck, an infamous outlaw who was just 18 when he was executed.
"[Buck] was biracial, he had mixed heritage," said Samuel. "And obviously, Idris is a wicked actor. He's many things, but he's not 18. It's not a biopic, so I wasn't looking at who looks like any of those characters, because none of them do. It's just what they embody as actors."
