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
Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we do with oil - we've been experiencing [these problems] at an accelerated rate. The scary end-game scenario is getting closer and closer, about what we're going to be able to do to sustain life on this planet as we have come to know it. And I think this is a very real possibility, that we could be dealing with conditions we have no idea how to wrestle with.
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.
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 pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it.
It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.
People saw the film and said, 'Wow that was terrible. I wish I had known.' Now you know.
Don't talk to me unless you speak American. It's all the things you don't say that's below the surface and how it can bubble up.
The problems are very nuanced and complex. We are in dire need of leadership from our government if we are going to see any change.
The problems are very nuanced and complex... we are in dire need of leadership from our government if we are going to see any change,
The problems are very nuanced and complex, ... We are in dire need of leadership from our government if we are going to see any change.
The problems are very nuanced and complex and are things that we are in dire need of leadership from our government if we are going to see any change.
I don't believe that the U.S. needs to take a police role. I think it needs to support African nations that have said they want to become a part of the solution.
We cannot stand here in a free society, proclaiming that we care about human life, and do nothing in the face of this, in my opinion,
We knew if we could get Don, he'd attract a cast because he's the kind of actor all the directors want to work with. We asked him to produce the film as well, because we're not dumb. ... He's the reason we have this cast, he and the fabulous casting directors.