I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were "bad reviews," they were kind of reviewing another movie.
Don CheadleSo 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.
Don CheadleEvery time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.
Don CheadleI imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.
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