Don Cheadle

My dad looked at me and he said… Honey…

You know we were there when we raised you, right?

Yeah, yeah.

We saw this.

We've seen you.

Those were the people.

Who was I?

I wasn't taking the Fung Wah bus unsupervised at 10.

It was my mom was taking me because she knew I had this passion.

And they were taking me to see the Urban Nutcracker and to see Wicked when it came to Boston on tour.

And, you know, my dad was always showing me amazing movies.

And I found out actually when I graduated, which is like,

funny thinking about the show and the legacies that we know and we don't know.

My dad wanted to study film.

He went to Emerson and then his dad found out because this was like analog days.

So, you know, he basically was like, yeah, yeah, everything's fine in America.

And then a cousin called my grandfather and was like, he's not studying to be a lawyer.

He's going to film school.

And my grandfather came down and was like, cool, you can graduate.

And then you have to like apply to law school after.