Don Cheadle

Happy Sad Confused

Josh Horowitz

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The amazingly talented Don Cheadle of Hotel Rwanda, the Oscar winning Crash, and War Machine in the Marvel films joins Josh this week to talk about directing his first feature film, Miles Ahead. It's a real labor of love for Don as he goes into all the steps it took to get the film about the legendary Miles Davis ultimately made. Plus, Don shares a revealing fact about his House of Lies co-star Ben Schwartz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.2	See you there. Hey guys and welcome to another edition of Happy Sad Confused. I'm Josh Horowitz. I'm the host of this little podcast where I talk to
0:56.4	super cool entertainers, actors, directors, comedians, and in this case, this week's episode
1:01.8	features an actor and a director.
1:04.3	My guest this week is the amazingly talented Don Cheetel, as if I have to tell you about
1:09.6	Don Cheetel, I'm going to do it anyway.
1:12.2	Oscar nominee for Hotel Rwanda. Of course, part of the Marvel
1:16.4	saga playing War Machine in the Marvel film, soon to be seen in Captain America, Winter
1:20.2	Soldier. He's the producer and star of the Oscar winning film Crash and he is now a
1:26.0	feature film director. He is directed for the small screen on House of Lies of course his
1:29.8	Showtime showed that he also stars in but this is his first feature miles ahead is about
1:34.8	to open, and it's a real labor of love.
1:37.6	This is a great conversation with Don to talk about a project that's super personal to him.
1:41.5	It is about, of course, the legendary Miles Davis, a character, a real person that Don plays in the film and something he's been trying to get off the ground for years as I reference in the conversation. This is one of those projects that you always heard about and you knew he was developing and I would always whenever I would see him at a film festival or something I would always ask, how's the Miles Davis movie and you could you know you could sense that he was just
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