(Photo: Sundance Institute)
PARK CITY, Utah — Don Cheadle is making the festival rounds with his pulsing, rocking Miles Davis film, Miles Ahead (in theaters April 1). Seven startling facts we learned from our Sundance Film Festival chat with the actor/director:
1.That’s really Cheadle playing the trumpet.
He started studying seriously four years ago for the part. "The trumpet is one of the meanest and hardest instruments that there is," says Cheadle. "The learning curve is very steep. I still practice every day."
2. 'Miles Ahead' has been in the works for 10 years.
As Cheadle puts it, "the gauntlet was dropped" when Davis was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, and calls for him to play the jazz legend began. “But (the script) went through many iterations,” says Cheadle. “We rebooted it … and that was another five, six years before we were able to find financing. And then lose it. And then cobble it together again."
3. It took casting a white actor to get the project green-lit.
“Until we had Ewan McGregor (playing a Rolling Stone reporter hunting for the big story on Davis’ comeback), until there was the white co-lead in the movie, there was nothing that was going to happen,” says Cheadle. “Thank God that Ewan doesn’t have an ego issue and is not someone who would look at a role like that and think, ‘Well, I’m not just going to run around behind you and support you.' Especially in that kind of potentially sycophantic role.”
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