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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
THR Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media.
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
One Night in Miami begins with a jaunty plunking of the piano under a series of cartoonish jeers and jokes from Muhammad Ali (Goree), then still called Cassius Clay. He hops through the boxing ring, confident of a win he hasn’t yet clinched, before a punch to the face lands him flat on his rear, wide-eyed and defeated.
This is the start of director Regina King’s unique approach to fictionalizing slices of the 1960s Black Power movement. Focused on a historic hotel room meeting between Ali, Malcolm X, the King of Soul Sam Cooke (Odom Jr.), and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown (Hodge),
Outside the Wire,” a
Netflix feature film with Anthony Mackie and Damon Idris, and boy is it action-packed!
Set in the future, Harp (Damson Idris), a drone pilot, is sent into a deadly militarized zone where he finds himself working for Leo (Anthony Mackie), an android officer, tasked to locate a doomsday device before the insurgents do. “Outside the Wire” is directed by Mikael Håfström.
DIRECTED BY: Mikael Håfström
PRODUCED BY: Ben Pugh, Erica Steinberg, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Anthony Mackie, Jason Spire
KEY CAST: Anthony Mackie “Leo”, Damson Idris “Harp”, Enzo Cilenti “Miller”, Emily Beecham “Sofiya”, Michael Kelly “Eckhart”, and Pilou Asbæk “Victor Koval”
Critics Choice Association announced today the incredible talent that it will recognize, virtually, at the third annual
Celebration of Black Cinema on Tuesday,
February 2, 2021. The ceremony will be hosted by author and media personality
Bevy Smith.
Delroy Lindo (
Da 5 Bloods) will receive The Career Achievement Award, having conquered the big screen, small screen, and stage, moving audiences with his impactful performances. Delroy Lindo can currently be seen in Spike Lee’s critically acclaimed film
Da 5 Bloods available on Netflix. Lindo has had memorable roles in films such as
The Cider House Rules, Heist, and previously garnered critical acclaim in a trio of films with Lee,