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Lil Nas X “Inspired” After “Long Live Montero” Premiere Bomb Threat

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Lil Nas X apparently felt “inspired” after a bomb threat was called into the premiere of his documentary, Long Live Montero, according to the film’s co-director, Carlos López Estrada. The filmmaker says that Nas booked a studio session after the incident and went to record new music.

“We got to experience in five minutes what the life of Montero is like,” Estrada told Indiewire. “And at the base of it all, it was this really awful, just horrific thing that you would have someone who disagrees with your worldview … They want to threaten your safety and make you feel scared for your life. That’s like the most horrible thing that a human can do to another. But you look past that and then Montero has this sort of amazing irreverence to him of just being like, ‘Yeah, but how rockstar is that?’”

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Lil Nas X Attends TIFF Premiere Of “Long Live Montero”

US rapper Lil Nas X arrives for the gala presentation of “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero” during the Toronto International Film Festival at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 9, 2023. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

“He said he felt inspired and he booked his studio and he went to record,’” Estrada said. “This was at 2:00 a.m. and I was just like, ‘What better token of appreciation can we get from our subject, from the coolest artist in the world to say that you made a movie about me. We premiered it together. We did a Q&A. And his reaction to it is, ‘I’m inspired. I’m going to go create more.’ It is like, ‘Oh, we’re good. Whatever happens to the movie next is not up to us. But that’s incredible.’”

As for the film itself, attendees at TIFF say the film follows Nas’ Long Live Montero tour and features Nas’ brother reflecting on how he came to terms with his own bisexuality. Additionally, Nas recalls running into Viola Davis at an Erewhon store in Los Angeles.

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Lil Nas X TIFF Premiere Delayed By 30 Minutes Due To Bomb Threat

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The premiere of Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero at the Toronto International Film Festival was briefly delayed on September 9. As Lil Nas X arrived at the screening, event organizers were informed that a bomb threat had been received. Furthermore, law enforcement revealed that the threat had been explicitly made against Lil Nas X. This was due to his status as a Black queer artist. However, the threat was deemed to be a hoax. As a result, the screening was able to go ahead after a 30-minute delay. This is the first major incident to affect TIFF specifically. The festival has introduced new security over the past few years. This was in response to incidents at other festivals and in the wider Toronto area.

“Earlier this evening, we were made aware by the Toronto Police Service of an investigation in the vicinity of the red carpet for the Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero screening. Our standard security measures remained in place during this time and the screening commenced with a slight delay. To our knowledge, this was a general threat and not directed at the film or the artist.” A TIFF spokesperson told Variety. The latter portion of this was later disputed, stating that the threat was made against Lil Nas X specifically.

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Lil Nas X Hopes Film Will Help Change The World

The bomb threat is a perfect example of what Lil Nas is hoping to combat with his film. “I know in my lifetime, while I’m here, I’m going to do my best to make the ceiling unreachable to where we can go as Black queer people. And I mean unreachable as, like, it can go above and beyond. I feel like we live in a generation where Black queer people really control culture. And they’re helping really take the world to the next level. And I think that’s going to have an effect on our youth watching us,” Nas told Variety.

“I think there are a lot of different layers to the film, which is surprising maybe for a music documentary. I think what was really important was that Montero himself was so transparent in his identity and also his journey toward being the fullest version of his identity that he really wanted to be. And I think sharing that journey with us and going on that journey with his family ended up really becoming the heart of the film. But he’s also able to put himself in perspective as a part of a continuum of other Black queer performers who came before him. I think his reflections on those things became the spine and the heart of the film. It became really important to the narrative, and also to how we understand him as more than just an artist, but understand him as a person,” added co-director Zac Manuel.

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