Regina King is earning rave reviews for her directorial feature film debut “One Night In Miami”, playing as part of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival programme.
Based on Kemp Powers’ play, the story follows a fictional meeting of Black icons and real-life friends, Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), football star Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), newly-crowned heavyweight boxing champ Cassius Clay (Eli Goree), and soul singer Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) as they spend one fateful night in Miami in 1964 discussing their roles as revolutionaries, leaders and activists.
For King, getting the chance to tell a story about not just the icons everyone knows, but a story about the very human nature of these men.
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