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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On the surface, One Night in Miami is a fictionalised account of a meeting that took place between Clay, X, Brown, and Cooke on Feb. 25, 1964, but at its core, it's a powerful story about racial injustice, religion, and personal responsibility. As the group spend a night in Miami discussing their roles as activists, leaders, and revolutionaries, the conversations that take place are some of the same discussions we are still having today amid the racial reckoning sparked by the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other Black men and women at the hands of police officers.
"Going into it, I knew how powerful these conversations were because, unfortunately, 60 years later what these men were talking about are being discussed now," King told ET Canada. In a separate interview with Variety, Hodge added, "We can put that conversation on a grand stage and help to either teach people what it is we're going through and also teach us how to have that conversation within our own circles, so that we can keep moving forward towards real progress."
As for what King hopes viewers take away from the film, she told InStyle that she wants every Black man she knows and loves to see their own self in it. "Nobody is perfect, and we are just trying to do our best," she said. "While these men are legendary, they were trying to do their best. It's as simple as that."
One Night in Miami is available on Amazon Prime Video on Jan. 15.