Leslie Odom Jr. is on track to burst into the Oscar race with a possible double nomination, for Supporting Actor and Original Song, for his contributions to Regina King’s One Night in Miami.
As part of Deadline x Rolling Stone, a special issue of our AwardsLine print magazine dedicated to music in cinema, Odom tells Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos about the strength he found in playing the legendary songwriter and producer Sam Cooke, and the key conversation with a mentor that kept him on the path toward his breakthrough in Hamilton.When Leslie Odom Jr.
was about to turn 30, he thought about quitting acting. He had been hustling for a decade in Los Angeles by then, nabbing small TV spots here and there.
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