Kingsley Ben-Adir deservingly won the Breakthrough Actor Gotham Award for playing Malcolm X in Regina King’s “One Night in Miami” and Eli Goree channels Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali in the entertaining and thought-provoking Amazon film.  I spoke with the actors about their inspiration, working with King, and what they hope for audience to get after watching […]

“One Night in Miami” is about four male icons in one unforgettable night.  Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay), Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown meet in a room in the Hampton House Hotel in Miami after Ali’s victorious fight against Sonny Liston. Leslie Odom Jr., who previously starred as Aaron Burr in “Hamilton,” is […]