Don Cheadle
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I would just read it on set if I didn't have like a crazy amount of lines.
And I remember Lionel and Will Poulter.
I would like pull them a lot.
Because Eben also was working on his own stuff for Dog Day.
So we would kind of be in little corners just like reading… And then picking up our sides and being like… Do we know our actual job for today?
And yeah.
And there's things where it's like… Catherine has these long passages of things where that is like memorized…
Or things that are— So that was the first stuff that I tried to tackle.
The stuff where I'm like, well, this is language that's like in her bones.
So it should be the first stuff that's in mine.
So I was like, well, that has to be something that's... Right.
And then that made me think... You can't change that every... What are things that I know?
Sorry, my long winded answer.
To just adapt to situations.
Yeah.
I think also when I first, like, realized that maybe this is something that I wanted to do, a big fear that I had because both of my parents are not in the industry.
Yeah.
And,
we similarly it's like i have a god mom who uh went to the first black ame church and we do a christmas program and she was in church an opera singer everyone was writing church plays you know that sort of thing but that was pretty much our purview of the whole thing it didn't go much further than that i don't even think i realized writing was a job you could have i thought that there were actors and directors like i didn't i don't
I didn't realize that people wrote the scripts that were different from the people who said them and like Spike Lee.