No./ 8 The story behind the buzziest performance of the year
MALCOLM X, SAM COOKE, Muhammad Ali and Jim Brown: the thinking-person’s choice of a party you’d want to gatecrash. This irresistible concept, of four icons meeting in a racially taut 1964 America, was first realised in Kemp Powers’ 2013 play . Now Regina King — one of America’s most assured, Academy Award-winning actors — take a valiant leap behind the camera to adapt it for the screen in her directorial debut, which saw her become the first Black female director to screen a film
