(ANSA) - VENICE, 07 SEPT - A year ago the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in If the Road Could Talk, and before dozens of performances in films and above all TV series, from 24 to The Bing Bang Theory and Watchmen, but now for Regina King is the moment of the directorial debut, a debut that will not remain unique, given that he is at work these days in the production of the second film.
She was expected in Venezia77 with her cast for the selected film Out of Competition, but all remained prudently in the United States and the meeting was via video link.
Acquired by Amazon and soon also at the Toronto FilmFestival, the film is the most current one can imagine.
One Night in Miami tells of the meeting and friendship between Malcom X, Cassius Clay, singer Sam Cooke and football star and actor Jim Brown, who spent an entire night together after the meeting that crowned the then 22-year-old champion of the world heavyweight, ran the year1964.
Based on a very successful play, rooted in the autobiographies of the protagonists, the screenplay by Kemp Powers (a fantastic Broadway author, by the way) is a four-part dialogue on black power, black rights, lelotte for emancipation. , a dialectic also made up of confrontations, of different points of view but of the same desire to discard once and for all the racism in which they lived.
"It is incredible how more than 50 years after these conversations between blacks - Regina King, protagonist of the # MeToo movement and activist tells ANSA - they are always the same ones we could hear today: how to be accepted, how to count, how not to have the doors closed by whites , how to be respected, how not to be called niggers. The true story of One Night in Miami is incredibly very contemporary. Seeing it today, with the American elotte of these days, the marches of the BlackLive Matters movement makes an impression, we are in an explosive moment and, even if thinking about the film and while we were shooting a year ago there was no George Floyd murder nor the riots, this work had a destiny within it, it marched alone and I am proud ".
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