Were you doing anything different research-wise? You mentioned watching footage of Cooke. You already mentioned this, but this is a vastly different historical figure from Aaron Burr. It wasn't me, but I saw the value in it, and I was willing to take the leap. I had to, because Sam was having the conversation. So I was going to have to find my way there through my fear. These are the kinds of conversations we've been having for a very long time, but it was the first time that I had seen it in a script, and certainly, the first time that I was being offered the opportunity to be that raw and to be that honest. This is the way we were talking backstage at Hamilton. This is the way him and his friends were talking at Howard University when he was coming up. These are the kinds of talks that we have. And then when I became an adult, I started to have them myself. He was really allowing maybe more than one thread, but a certain kind of conversation that has been had around me my whole life, certainly as a child. He was having a very private conversation publicly. I saw beyond my fear, and I really saw what Kemp was doing in that script. I gave the script a second look, and I saw beyond that. They called me, and they said, "We really think you should reconsider." I didn't feel up for the task, and I just thought there would be somebody better suited than I, but my manager and my agent called me. Anybody that's walking planet earth right now, has heard Sam, has heard “You Send Me,” has heard “A Change Is Going to Come,” so I was not inclined to pick up those very large shoes and fail. There's so much footage on Sam, and we hear Sam. Well, because, while I've played a couple of people that have walked the planet earth -I did do Aaron Burr William Still- but these are not people that there exists so much footage. They had to chase me a little bit, only because I didn't see what they saw in myself. Getting into One Night in Miami, what was the casting process like for this? And the way that you can scale in that way with television or with these streaming platforms is, again, not anything we considered when we were preparing to open our off-Broadway show in 2015. Quite frankly, most of the people that are watching Hamilton on Disney+ are experiencing the show for the first time. But what has been revealed over the last few months is that this thing, it's impact and the way it's connected with people is way bigger than us.Ī couple of days before the show premiered, Tommy said, "Leslie, do you realize that more people are probably going to see you in this role this weekend then saw your entire Broadway run in the show?" So the potential for that kind of scaling was hard for me to wrap my mind around on opening weekend, but I've certainly seen it since. There was a part of me that was just a little sad that I wouldn't be able to be in close proximity with my brothers and sisters, to share this moment.
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At the beginning, there was a part of me that was a little sad that I wouldn't get to lift Renee up onto my shoulders and run her around a movie theater after “Satisfied,” or that I wouldn't get to wrap my arms around Philippa Soo's neck at the end of that show and tell her how much she moved me. It was really able to bring people some joy and inspiration at a time when they maybe needed it most. One Night in Miami will be released later this year via Amazon Prime Video.ĮNTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Starting things off, what has your experience been with a much bigger audience now getting to see your work in Hamilton on Disney+? Usually, when an actor has a breakout role on Broadway, it leads to more opportunities, but most audiences never get to see them play that role on stage. Odom spoke to EW about what that experience has been like, as well as why he was hesitant to accept the part of Sam Cooke and how he ended up writing a song for the movie too. It's the capper to a big year for Odom, whose Hamilton work was introduced to a mass audience for the first time earlier this summer, with the filmed version's Disney+ premiere.
When an opportunity like One Night in Miami finally comes, Odom says "so often when I'm working on something, I have to leave so much of myself at the door." Following the response to the film after its screenings at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival - which touted Odom as a possible Oscar contender for his scene-stealing work - the actor surrendering himself to the project evidently paid off.
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