Regina King shares what motivated her to direct One Night in Miami and why that story appealed to her specifically. The Academy Award winner sat down with CBS to talk about her first picture behind the camera. King said that her emphasis was on telling a uniquely American story with the picture. “I think that God put me here to tell more of our stories. It was the reminder that a Black story is an American story,” she explained. It’s not hard to see why audiences were so enamored with her debut. The movie has a sense of time and place that makes the entire package feel very distinct. One other thing that separates One Night in Miami from some other films released recently is the concrete difference between the men at the heart of the film. Malcolm X, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Muhammad Ali were from different worlds, but their commonalities enabled this friendship.
