After directing multiple TV episodes, Regina King makes her big-screen directing debut with Amazon’s “One Night in Miami.” Kemp Powers adapted his play about a 1963 meeting of Jim Brown, Cassius Clay (before he became Muhammad Ali), Sam Cooke and Malcolm X.
King paid tribute to her colleagues behind the camera, saying, “They were my heroes.”Tami Reiker, cinematographer“Tami and I connected immediately.
Even when I didn’t have a technical word for what I was looking for, she understood.
For example, so much takes place in one motel room, and I didn’t want it to feel like a play; I wanted it to feel light and with an energy that matches the performances.
And for me, color is a great way to represent Black people.
In our sordid past as Americans, we still found a way to laugh and love, and color represents that vivaciousness.
But I
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