Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle
Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle Jr. is an American actor, writer, producer, and director. He had an early role in Hamburger Hill, before building his career in the 1990s with performances in Devil in a Blue Dress, Rosewoodand Boogie Nights. He started a collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that resulted in the films Out of Sight, Trafficand Ocean's Eleven. Other films include The Rat Pack, Things Behind the Sun, Swordfish, Crash, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Reign Over Me, Talk to Me,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 November 1964
CityKansas City, MO
CountryUnited States of America
It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.
I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.
I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.
I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.
But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.
I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.
Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.
I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.
People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.