Christopher Martin yearns for return to acting

Christopher Martin is best known for his exploits as a vocalist, but the soulful singer has demonstrated his worth as an actor, having played a major role in the 2014 feature-length film, Destiny.

The entertainer, looking back on his time working on the Jeremy Whittaker and Paul O. Beale-led project, told THE WEEKEND STAR that not only did he love the experience, but he wants to do it again.

"I loved it. That experience was a wonderful one for me as well."

He continued, "Is like you just feel like seh the Almighty just a work different inna your life. Like, growing up in Back Pasture [St Catherine], who would have told me that I would be doing stuff like that. Now, that is the Almighty's blessings, 100 per cent."

For the Big Deal singer, he said, while no stranger to creating art, the oddest part of being an actor was reciting lines he did not pen.

"It was very different because I never wrote the lines. Me going into the studio, I wrote the songs so it's easy to retain the lyrics. Like 'oh yea, me write it suh make me sing it now'. But getting the script and learning the lines and waiting for cues and 'you're gonna say this, and then I'm gonna say that, I'm going to come in', it posed a little difficulty," he acknowledged.

In Destiny, Martin portrayed the character Sean, the male lead and love interest to leading lady, Lisa Pullen, portrayed by Karina Sang.

"Me feel like me can act enuh, and watching that movie kind of stamp it within me mind seh, yeah, yuh really can do this enuh. So I feel like getting into character and showing the different emotions on camera, I won't say it was easy, but it was okay," Martin said.

He said that he would love to be on the big screen again, a wish that could be answered sooner rather than later.

"We're in the works of casting and stuff, so hopefully you'll see something very, very soon," he said.

He said, until then, his fans can continue to enjoy his newest single, Guaranteed. He also said fans should be on the lookout for his upcoming track, So Good, featuring Dexta Daps.

"I think they will react in a very positive way, positive feeling and emotions," he said of the collaboration.