Extended Interview: Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle
CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley
CBS News
4.3 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Actors Ayo Edebiri ("The Bear") and Don Cheadle ("Hotel Rwanda") talk with Tracy Smith about making their Broadway debuts in the revival of "Proof". They also discuss their love of live theater and the early roles that inspired their passion for acting.
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| 0:34.1 | This is Jane Paulie. They're both big stars in their own right. Now Iowa Debrie and Don Sheetle are appearing together on Broadway in the play Proof. They're talking with Sunday mornings Tracy Smith. |
| 0:52.3 | Let's go way back to the germination of this project. |
| 0:55.0 | When you were presented with the prospect of working with Dawn, what'd you think? |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, I was very happy. |
| 1:02.0 | And I was, I mean, I honestly was like, oh, I don't know if he would do this. |
| 1:09.0 | Like, I feel like, I don't know, he's on, I can't look at him now, I feel very strange. |
| 1:13.3 | But he's on like my Mount Rushmore actor. |
| 1:16.1 | So I was shocked that he even said yes. |
| 1:20.2 | And I was like, yeah, yeah, right? |
| 1:22.0 | Like we're saying other names, but like we're not really, right? |
| 1:24.1 | Like, it's, it's, please. |
| 1:26.3 | And then when we did the first sort of reading and workshop with each other, it just was like kind of instant. It was cool. Yeah, it felt great. I mean, as soon, I've been a fan of iOS for a long time, too. And as soon as, like she said, as soon as we were in the same room together, it felt like we'd known each other a long time. |
| 1:46.6 | And I immediately felt this fatherly, you know, instinct. |
| 1:50.7 | And I had to, during the rehearsals, remind myself that it's not, you're not my kid. |
| 1:56.5 | We have to actually serve this text and I can't, you know, I have to become Robert and not |
| 2:02.1 | be Don and how Don wants to be with I-O. Robert has to now be with Catherine. And what does that |
| 2:07.0 | mean? And where does that meet and all of that? But it was an instant, like, not on just |
| 2:12.5 | that level, but a respect and a peer level. And, you you know someone who I know takes the work |
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