FIGHT CLUB (1999)
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975)
THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980)
RAIN MAN (1988)
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI... (2020)
GOODFELLAS (1990)
THE GODFATHER (1972)
WARGAMES (1983)
PHONE BOOTH (2002)
THE BIRDS (1963)
Kingsley Ben-Adir has become very familiar to television audiences from his appearances on the Netflix drama The OA and the BBC series Peaky Blinders, along with a breakout role as Malcolm X in the acclaimed film One Night In Miami... Now, he's back on the big screen playing another larger than life role, starring as legendary reggae artist Bob Marley in the new biopic Bob Marley: One Love. As he did with Malcolm X and with his role as President Barack Obama in the miniseries The Comey Rule, Ben-Adir spoke about how he took a very distinct approach to playing a real-life character like Marley and explained his process.
Bob Marley: One Love opens in theaters on February 14.
Leslie Odom Jr. isn’t feeling very happy right now. As he rightfully points out, the string of terrifying world events is enough to give him pause. However, as he pointedly clarifies, he is feeling joyful. Spending time with his children and community and pouring himself into his creative practices as an actor and musician have allowed him to access a bedrock emotion beyond happiness. It’s an emotion that, after a season that he describes as one of “the most intense periods of growth in my life,” he’s ready to finally reclaim.
Actually this is an Aldis Hodge stan account now. When I tell y'all I have been in love with this man since age 12? I was like eight when Leverage originally aired, but I watched it RELIGIOUSLY throughout high school and college. And this man?
(by the way, @renew-leverage, how good does it feel to win?)
But Alec Hardison was a man of myth and legend. Empathetic and caring and played with this intensity and subtlety that I couldn't look away from.
And Aldis wasn't very known? Like he was in Straight Outta Compton, but none of my family knew him when I later pointed this out It seemed like he was just a cherished gem from one of my biggest comfort shows.
UNTIL One Night in Miami came out! When I say I was HOLLERING, it was inappropriate. I was more excited for this than any Marvel or DC project I'd ever heard of, yet. And Regina King? And then it's a quiet masterpiece, understated in all the ways Aldis Hodge already proved he was amazing at back in the Leverage period piece episodes.
Also, he looks like this in it. He's everything to me. It's been a DECADE. And he wears it so fucking well. Okay. I am actively gushing and thus this post is over. My point: this man is Hollywood gold, they better keep him and bolster his career until he's one of the staples of cinema.
(oh my GOD I forgot about The Invisible Man AND Hidden Figures)
NFL football star, activist and actor Jim Brown has died at 87. In the 2020 movie One Night in Miami (read my review here), Brown was played by Aldis Hodge and he talks about starting to act and get involved with the civil rights movement at that point and time, 1964.
In terms of his movie career (beyond everything else he accomplished), he had great supporting turns in The Dirty Dozen, The Running Man, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Original Gangstas (not one of his best movies, but it was cool to see him, Fred Williamson and Pam Grier co-starring in a movie), He Got Game, Small Soldiers, and Any Given Sunday. But one of his coolest scenes was when he fought an alien in Mars Attacks!.
Brown fighting aliens in Mars Attacks!
The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.