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
Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.
Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?
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 started following the news and seeing what was happening around the world with the polar ice caps melting and temperatures breaking records. I became concerned as an animal on this planet but also as a father.
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 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.
Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.
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.
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.
I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.
Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.
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.
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.
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.