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Along with actors Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge and Leslie Odom Jr., King references the close quarters built for her directorial debut that the previously unknown-to-each-other actors and crew worked in: “If we kept it the actual size of the Hampton House, we would have suffocated.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Mia Galuppo sat down with director Regina King, screenwriter Kemp Powers and stars Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge and Leslie Odom Jr. to discuss their Amazon Studios film,
One Night in Miami, in a
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Powers’ stage play, on which the film is based, takes place strictly in a room at the Hampton House, the historic hotel in still-segregated 1960s Miami where Malcolm X and Cassius Clay stayed prior to the latter s fight with Sonny Liston. While King’s film adaption expanded the story to include several other locations, like the hotel’s roof and the arena where Clay fought Liston, the majority of