Reasons to Watch Regina King's One Night in Miami Film
Regina King's One Night in Miami Is a Timely, Star-Studded Masterpiece
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The reimagining of Powers's 2013 stage play marks King's directorial debut, and she's already made history with it. Though the film doesn't hit Amazon Prime Video until Jan. 15, One Night in Miami previously premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September, making King the first Black woman director to be included in the festival's history.
When asked why she chose One Night in Miami as her feature directorial debut, King told Variety that Powers's play simply blew her away. "I felt like I had never seen conversations like this on screen before . . . so I just felt like what Kemp wrote was just so beautiful and I felt I wanted to be a part of this . . . As a mother, as a niece, as a daughter of a Black man, I just felt like I wanted to tell a story or be a part of telling a story that every Black man that I know and love can see a bit of himself."