Kingsley Ben-Adir On Playing Malcolm X In The Terrific ‘One Night In Miami’

Kingsley Ben-Adir On Playing Malcolm X In The Terrific ‘One Night In Miami’

Uproxx - News·2021-01-15 07:02

In the last few months, we’ve seen the British-born Kingsley Ben-Adir play two of the most famous Americans of the last century, Barack Obama in The Comey Rule, and now Malcolm X in Regina King’s wonderful One Night in Miami(which hits Amazon on Friday). The premise of the film, based on the night in which Muhammad Ali (then using the name Cassius Clay) beat Sonny Liston, has Ali (Eli Goree) hanging out with Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) and Kingsley Ben-Adir’s Malcolm X. This night actually happened, but the dialog is imagined.

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