Don Cheadle was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in 2005 for “Hotel Rwanda” but he is not very interested in attending the ceremony.
“You’ll never see me at the Oscars unless I’m presenting or I’m nominated,” Cheadle told CNN in a recent interview. “And as soon as they don’t say my name, the game is how fast can you get out of there.”
For him, it's not about winning or losing, Cheadle said, he just doesn't like how awards ceremonies put creative work in a subjective competition.
“Just conceptually, the Oscars being a competition between artists… those are things you can’t really compare,” Cheadle explained.
“How do you compare 'Barbie' to 'Oppenheimer?' They're not even in the same world. That’s not really why we do this or why we got into this,” she said.
Publicizing the awards after the nomination is an entirely different task, Cheadle said.
“The campaign around this is like, oh my God, you got nominated and you think, this is cool. And they said, okay, now you have to show up here and here and here and do this and that. You're like, oh, wait a minute,” he said, laughing.
Cheadle added that even attending awards shows as a member of the public brings some stress.
“For me personally, it's difficult because when you're at the Oscars, you are the show,” he said. “If you’re in the audience, the cameras are on. You never know when you're on the show. Like, how can you talk shit?”
“This is a business issue and you can’t really compare artists like this,” he said.
Cheadle spoke to CNN about the set “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist” a limited series that will tell the story of an armed robbery that occurred on the night of the Muhammad Ali fight in Atlanta in 1970.
He plays Detective J.D. Hudson, described as “one of Atlanta's first black detectives assigned to Ali's security and the robbery.”
The series, which is scheduled to debut next year, will also star Taraji P. Henson , Samuel L. Jackson , Terrence Howard , Kevin Hart It is Dexter Darden .
“It’s been great to get back into the swing of things with Sam and Taraji and Terrance and Kevin. Kevin and I have been trying to figure out something to do together for a while,” Cheadle said.
“It's a very interesting story based on real-life events. It’s been a lot of fun.”
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Source: CNN Brasil
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