Aldis Hodge is good at filling big shoes. After portraying the likes of MC Ren in and Brian Banks in the NFL player's biopic, Hodge stars as the legendary running back Jim Brown in, alongside Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Muhammad Ali.Directed by Regina King, the film is a dramatized account of an evening the four friends spent together in the '60s. (Kingsley Ben-Adir, Leslie Odom Jr.
and Eli Goree play the other legends.) It's a story of race and civil rights, about art and fulfillment, brotherhood and love.«I couldn't've predicted that we would receive the response that we have thus far,» says Hodge. «I knew that it was important and that this film was deeply powerful, but I didn't know how it would affect anyone outside of our community.
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