Don Cheadle
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Because your parents are immigrants?
Yes, both of them.
My mom's from Barbados and my dad is from Nigeria.
Yeah.
No.
You know, they have siblings and they, you know, they had...
things to do and people to help and secure things for.
And I think, yeah, it was a cool thing though where I was like, oh, my dad isn't continuing that cycle.
And he wants me to do well and, you know, make sure that everything is okay.
But he also knows that like there's no point in, I don't know, this life if…
So it's like, what are the word choices?
What happened?
What actually happened?
And what's also happening underneath it?
What's happening is these two sisters are missing each other.
So how do we make
maintain that while also still allowing the play to be what it is.
That's right.
That also means something in Chicago in the 90s.
So yeah, that's been cool.