After Hamilton, Leslie Odom Jr. just wanted to be himself, but then the role of Sam Cooke came calling One Night in Miami director Regina King saw something in me that I didn t see in myself yet, Leslie Odom Jr. says of his role as Sam Cooke. (Patti Perret/Amazon Studios)
Published January 28. 2021 10:38AM
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Leslie Odom Jr. is racking his brain for the right words when he clocks the latex-gloved visitor in his yard and realizes that a swab has arrived to tickle it. Oh, I have to take a COVID test, he says over video chat from his Los Angeles home, putting talk about his new film, One Night in Miami, on pause. It s very, very 2020 of me.
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âOne Night in Miamiâ is based on a real event that focuses on the night of Muhammad Aliâs â then named Cassius Clay â famous win against Sonny Liston on Feb. 25, 1964. Ali (Eli Goree) and his history-making friends, Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) and Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), meet up that legendary night in a hotel room of the Hampton House.Â
The film was originally based on a play with the same exact title written by Kemp Powers in 2013, the mind that would later become a writer and director for the Pixar film âSoul.â This play-to-film translation was made under Regina Kingâs vision. She and the cast created the project with the intention of not only creating art but to teach something. They, in an interview with Vanity Fair, talk about creating a film that shows people how to talk about the issues and conflicts that they face within the community amongst themselves.Â