Cheadle played Sylvester Carrier, a piano teacher who risked his life by deciding to stand his ground and not run away from the racist mob. The film was directed by John Singleton.
I called him up afterward and told him we had to work together. I didn't know what it would be at the time, but when we were casting Rosewood , I realized he would be a great Sylvester," Singleton told the Indianapolis Recorder. Released in , Rosewood garnered some excellent reviews. Joan H. Allen of the Amsterdam News called the film "powerful and compelling. Cheadle admitted that money was the primary impetus for his appearance in the disaster film Volcano , in which an unprepared Los Angeles is threatened with an overwhelming flow of lava.
His role in the film as assistant chief of the city's emergency management squad was not written specifically for a black actor. Cheadle said non-race specific roles are relatively rare and not necessarily desirable. I'm glad people try to write roles that anyone can do, but I also don't ever want to end up in movies where the fact that I'm a black man is a nonissue. In America, it's always an issue," Cheadle told Interview.
In Boogie Nights , an unsparingly frank examination of the pornographic film industry of the s, Cheadle played Buck Swope, an X-rated movie star. At first, Cheadle was reluctant to accept the part, worried that the film might be tawdry. He requested that he not have to take off his clothes for the camera. I wanted the film to take a deep look at these people and it does," Cheadle recalled in Interview.
On series television, Cheadle's most notable work was his two years as a straight-arrow district attorney on the quirky small town life drama Picket Fences. More television is not something Cheadle sees in his future, hoever. There's no time to refine things, and they so often cut things that are key to where you're trying to take your character. I find it very frustrating," Cheadle said in the Los Angeles Times. Cheadle's concentration on landing roles that he could dig his teeth into paid off.
For his portrayal of Sammy Davis, Jr. Cheadle also won critical praise for his lead role in Hotel Rwanda, the real-life story of the civil war in Rwanda. Hollywood Reporter called it "an African version of 's Schindler's List.
Variety lauded his performance as "exquisitely crafted," Interview found it "breathtaking," and Newsweek called it Cheadle's "richest role since Devil in a Blue Dress. Cheadle's five-year experience working on Hotel Rwanda touched him deeply. He became a political activist, raising awareness of the atrocities of the Rwandan civil war and trying to drum up support to stop the ongoing civil war in Sudan. Cheadle followed Hotel Rwanda with Crash. Crash uses a variety of incidents—including a traffic accident and a burglary—happening in Los Angeles over a hour period to show how different people act toward each other based on first impressions, skin color, and accents.
Cheadle, who also produced the film, played an L. People film critic Leah Rozen praised the film, writing: "Movies don't come better acted, as lucidly written or, most importantly, more capable of grabbing a viewer emotionally and intellectually than this exceptional ensemble drama about racial and ethnic relations in urban America today.
Although a seasoned professional, Cheadle's work seemed to have only just begun in the early s. He was widely sought after as an actor; he wrote and directed plays; and he continued to produce films. Cheadle also made his feature film directorial debut with an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel, Tishomingo Blues.
In the film, which remained in production in , Cheadle plays Robert Taylor, a gangster from Detroit. But as his children grew, Cheadle again eyed television as a good outlet for his talents because it required less traveling than film work. He had taken his daughters to South Africa with him for the filming of Hotel Rwanda, and did not feel that he could ask them to pick up and move whenever he found an interesting film.
Nevertheless, Cheadle did not expect to lower his standards for interesting and compelling roles. Hide Show Soundtrack 6 credits. Hide Show Writer 3 credits. Dixon Golf Video short creator. Hide Show Thanks 11 credits. Hide Show Self credits. Self - Performer. Self - Guest. Show all 9 episodes. Show all 15 episodes. Self - Indiana Jones Auditionee.
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Star Sign: Sagittarius. Master of Sex and House of Cards now look like the shows to beat, with Breaking Bad making what will be its final appearance at the Golden Globes with the series ending this year. This comes just a year after Homeland achieved the impressive feat of winning Best Drama Series, Best Male Actor and Best Female Actor all in one night, although this does mark the second year in a row that the winner Mad Men has not appeared in the Best Drama category. Don Cheadle is set to play jazz legend Miles Davis in an upcoming film focussing on the trumpeter's "silent period" alongside Ewan McGregor and Zoe Saldana.
Though Cheadle has stressed that the movie will not be a biopic in the strictest biographical sense, Kill the Trumpet Player will focus on "a few dangerous days in the life of Miles Davis, as he bursts out of his silent period and conspires with a Rolling Stone writer McGregor to steal back his music," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
As well as taking on the complex lead role, Cheadle will also direct the piece and has been planning the film for several years. It's a gangster pic. It's a movie Miles Davis would have wanted to star in," he told the Wall Street Journal, adding "Without throwing history away, we're trying to shuffle it and make it more cubist.
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