Don Cheadle
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BirthDate BirthPlace |
11/28/1964
Kansas City, MO |
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Drake leads BET Awards nominations with 12 nods
May 14, 2013 3:40pm ESTRapper Drake looks set to dominate the upcoming BET Awards after landing 12 nominations. The Best I Ever Had hitmaker received five nods in the category of Video of the Year, with his promos for Started From The Bottom, HYFR (with Lil Wayne), No Lie (with 2 Chainz), Poetic Justice (with Kendrick Lamar), and Problems all getting nods, while he'll compete with collaborators A$AP Rocky, 2 Chainz and Lamar in the Best Collaboration category. In addition, Drake's Problems and Started From The Bottom are up for the Coca-Cola Viewers Choice Award, and he'll also battle with Lamar, Future, 2 Chainz, and A$AP Rocky for the title of Best Male Hip Hop Artist. The Best Female Hip Hop Artist trophy will be a fight between Nicki Minaj, Eve, Rasheeda, Rye Rye, and Azealia Banks. Other nominees include Beyonce, who will duke it out with Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Tamar Braxton, and Elle Varner for Best Female R&B/Pop Artist, and Chris Brown, Usher, Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, and Miguel, who will battle to become the Best Male R&B/Pop Artist. Meanwhile, Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Taraji P. Henson, Gabrielle Union, Kerry Washington, Don Cheadle, Common, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, and Denzel Washington will do battle for the top acting nods, and Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap, Sparkle, and Think Like A Man are up for Best Movie. The winners will be announced during the Los Angeles ceremony, hosted by Chris Tucker, on 30 June (13).
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The Things They Say:
May 10, 2013 4:08am EST"I played well and the President nicknamed me The Beast and, by the end of the three games, of which we won two out of three... he named me the MVP (most valuable player) of our team... He was a great leader of our team; he communicated very well, he was very encouraging... We were struggling in the third game... we were down and the President stepped up... and won the game for us." Actor Tobey Maguire on playing basketball with Barack Obama and George Clooney against a team led by Don Cheadle.
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The Things They Say:
May 10, 2013 3:41am EST"There was a letter that showed up, it was a memo about no eye contact and you had to say 'Sir' and if you drank in front of him you had to have your finger out... It had Sexy Beast letterhead on the top of it... I would say that maybe it was intended as a joke, but everyone took it very seriously." Don Cheadle on working with prankster Sir Ben Kingsley in Iron Man 3.
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The Things They Say:
May 10, 2013 3:36am EST"They've finally stopped attacking me because of the (English) dialect in Ocean's Eleven and Twelve... According to them, I had a piece of s**t accent... They got really mad about it. It was really upsetting." Don Cheadle is relieved Brits have started forgiving him for the accent he attempted on the big screen.
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'Iron Man 3' Has So Many 'Hey, It's That Guy!' Roles
May 03, 2013 2:46pm ESTWarning: This post contains minor spoilers from Iron Man 3. Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, blah, blah, blah, who cares, right? We get it, Iron Man 3, you've got an impressive starring lineup. You've got blockbuster heroes, Oscar-winning thespians, and critical powerhouses alike. But what about your second... er, third tier of bit players? The Marvel threequel might be front-loaded with glory, but the real fun comes from the handful of its supporting characters. More than a few of these one-scene wonders — these mighty set-fillers and exposition deliverers — will conjure a passionate, "Hey, it's that guy!" from eagle-eyed audience members. You'll instantly recognize a couple of noteworthy faces from film and television past making up Iron Man 3's backdrop. Here are a few faces bound to incite some fan boy glee during Tony Stark's latest turn... Hey, it's Rosenfield from Twin Peaks!The stakes are high in Iron Man 3 — in fact, they go all the way to D.C.. But you might recognize the Marvel movie's Vice President Rodriguez from our country's other Washington: early in the actor's career, he immortalized the caustic and impatient, however expertly competent FBI forensic analyst Albert Rosenfield. Hey, it's Max from Happy Endings!The ABC sitcom's slovenly, selfish breakout character Max Blum would be as out of place as possible in a superhero movie... but this doesn't seem to have stopped actor Adam Pally from landing a part as tech professional Gary, a Tony Stark aficionado whose gushing nearly gets in the way of a rescue mission. Not a huge leap from Max by any means, and a funny one to boot, but at least this incarnation of Pally seems to have earned steady job. Hey, it's Bill Maher, and Joan Rivers, Thomas Roberts, and Pat Kiernan!By now, you should be accustomed to the whole media reel trope in superhero movies like Iron Man 3. This time around, we get a few jabs about Stark and the villainous The Mandarin from pundits and talk show hosts like Maher, Rivers, Roberts, and a few more. And if you're a New York local, there's an extra bonus: Pat Kiernan of NY1! Hey, it's that lady from Winter's Bone!Or, if this is more your tastes, Martha from True Blood (or Patty from My Name Is earl, for that matter). The omnipresent actress Dale Dickey shows up in the latest Marvel endeavor as an important plot point in Tony Stark's investigation of The Mandarin's nefarious ploy... Hey, it's Charlotte from Lost!This one is only for those vehemently opposed to blinking. Lost fans will recall, in the series' weakest chapter, English actress Rebecca Mader portray cultural anthropologist (with a penchant for time jump-induced nosebleeds) Charlotte Lewis. Although she might have overstayed her welcome on the island drama, Mader only has a split second of screen time in Iron Man 3, appearing as a brutal baddie hoping to take down Don Cheadle. Hey, it's Stan Lee... obviously.Yeah, he's got a cameo in this one, too... we won't give it away, but it's a scene that'll inspire a smirk for sure. Let us know if you spot anyone we missed! Follow Michael Arbeiter on Twitter @MichaelArbeiter More:'Iron Man 3' Review'Iron Man 3' Has 42 Iron Man Suits? We Design a Few More...How 'Iron Man 3' Can Avoid the Trilogy-Ender Curse From Our Partners:Beyonce Flaunts Bikini Bod for H&M (Celebuzz)33 Child Stars: Where Are They Now? (Celebuzz)
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Review: 'Iron Man 3' Isn't a Superhero Movie (But Robert Downey Jr. Makes That OK)
May 01, 2013 10:41am ESTFollowing in the footsteps of The Avengers, the most comic booky of comic book movies, writer/director Shane Black has helped redefine the Marvel hero Iron Man for his third outing by giving the cold shoulder to the source material. It's hard to call Iron Man 3 a "comic book movie," even while Robert Downey, Jr. flies around in a destructive exoskeleton, aiming to put a stop to a baddie named The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) and his fire-breathing minions. The movie plays more like a sequel to Black's 2005 neo-noir Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (also starring Downey, Jr.). Detective-esque voiceover, razor sharp banter, and an obstacle that has Tony Stark piecing together clues and rarely appearing in his iconic armor, Iron Man 3 avoids fantasy in favor of a hefty helping of pulp fiction. The setup makes way for Downey, Jr.'s best work in the franchise. Iron Man 3 suggests that the whole flying-into-space-to-blow-up-a-worm-hole-and-almost-dying thing from The Avengers' Battle of New York took a toll on Tony. To cope with PTSD, he remains cooped up in his lab, endlessly building new Iron Man suits for whatever otherworldly adversary may hit him next. All the while, his girlfriend/replacement CEO Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) attempts to manage Tony's money machine, Stark Industries. The latest proposition for the tech conglomerate comes from nerd-turned-playboy Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), a man with clear resentment for Tony, who still pitches Pepper his latest creation (if only to woo her with genius). It's called Extremis, a genetic treatment that allows for unprecedented human regeneration. It also causes people to gain superhuman powers... with the potential of internal combustion — but hey, it's still in development. There's an abidance of plot in Iron Man 3: along with Killian's sneaky schemes, The Mandarin, a bin Laden-like terrorist, is growing in power and detonating bombs in random places across the U.S.. Hoping to put a stop to him is Tony's BFF James Rhodes (Don Cheadle). He's painted his Iron Man armor Red, White and Blue to become Iron Patriot, crusader of the War on Terror. In a surprise to no one, intelligence gathered on The Mandarin continually leads him in the wrong directions. When one Mandarin attack hits too close to home, Tony is shaken out of his comfort zone. He goes on the offense, but his cocky attitude is his downfall. After an attack on his cliffside mansion (a tremendous sequence of architectural dismemberment), Tony is left on his butt in the middle of nowhere, with no one to help him. Black's clear goal is to keep Tony out of the armor. The Marvel regime forces its movies to stylistically conform, keeping Iron Man 3 as flat and generic across the technical board. So Black innovates on the page as he did during his screenwriting days (he's the man behind Lethal Weapon and The Last Boyscout). Downey, Jr. is firing on all cylinders here, shooting off wisecracks faster than Iron Man's repulser rays and giving Tony something to grapple with. Black connects the character with one of the scariest companion tropes in all of filmmaking: "random helpful kid." It ends up working because Tony never loses his sardonic tone — when his 11-year-old helper reveals that his dad walked out a few years prior, Tony tells him to get over it (using very colorful language). They've got bad guys to fight. Completely rude, completely genuine. Downey, Jr. is one of the few performers who can drop that comedy gold then match it with a stunt-filled set piece. Downey, Jr. isn't alone. Black has a dream cast for Iron Man 3, helping keep the convoluted plot in check with personality. Pearce has a ball with his diabolical Killian while Kingsley subverts every villain trope in the book. His performance as The Mandarin pulls the rug from under the audiences' feet with cackling glee. It might be Black's way of flipping the bird to die hard comic fans, but depending on your investment, Kingsley dominates the movie. While Black injects his wry sensibilities into the superhero format, he also plays ball with the necessary evils. There's big action in Iron Man 3 and, unlike the previous two installments, it delivers. A scene in which Iron Man swoops through the sky to catch fallen airplane passengers will make your heart race. Whether it's incredible CG or practical stunts, the airborne wrangling feels all too real. Black has his classic '90s action moments too: if Iron Man 3 didn't have a swing-away-from-an-explosion moment, it wouldn't be a Shane Black movie. Aside from a few raised eyebrows provoked by the film's logic, Downey, Jr. and Black once again found magic together — and on a scale worthy of summer blockbusters. Iron Man 3 easily tops the first two movies and starts the summer off with a bang and a sly wink to camera. (And don't forget to stay after the credits — Marvel once again drops a scene that completes the film!) 4/5 What do you think? Tell Matt Patches directly on Twitter @misterpatches and read more of his reviews on Rotten Tomatoes! More: Why Making a Part 3 Ain't EasyThe 20 Must-See Movies of Summer 2013Iron Man Already a Hit From Our Partners:Beyonce Flaunts Bikini Bod for H&M (Celebuzz)33 Child Stars: Where Are They Now? (Celebuzz)
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A Non-Geeks Guide to Iron Man
May 01, 2013 10:29am ESTHey buddy, how's it going? I'm thinking of seeing Iron Man 3 this weekend. What do you think? Well, have you seen Iron Man and Iron Man 2: Let Us Never Speak of It Again? Actually, no I haven't. Did you see The Avengers? Nope. So, why exactly do you want to see this? Well my... Let me guess, "My boyfriend/girlfriend/non-genered significant other really wants me to go, so I'm going to check it out." Cool. OK, I get it. I guess I can fill you in. So, what do I need to know? Well, you should know that you should probably see those three movies first or else you are going to be a little bit lost. But Iron Man is a dude named Tony Stark who is a billionaire playboy. Is that a real job? It is in the comics. So, Tony Stark is a billionaire playboy and a genius. Really? Yes, not only does everyone in the comics have tons of money and super powers, but there are an inordinate number them that are geniuses. So, in the movie, Tony Stark is a billionaire playboy genius who gets kidnapped by a bunch of terrorists and has to make a suit out of iron to bust himself free. The problem is he was injured and has shrapnel in his chest so he has this electromagnet in there to keep it from reaching his heart and killing him. When he gets back to the real world he's so emotionally wrecked that he builds himself a suit of armor to fight bad guys and stuff. So he doesn't have any super powers? What do you think being a billionaire playboy genius is? But no, he has no super powers. But his suit has lots of powers. It has "repulsor rays" in the hands and feet that allow Iron Man not only to fly to also to blast people to kingdom come. And the suit is made of metal so he's pretty invulnerable, and it makes him stronger and whatnot. There's also an in-flight robot computer thingy named Jarvis (the name of The Avengers' butler in the comics) who helps him out and tells him things. How does he pee in it? That is a good question that I don't know the answer to. But I assume he does not? Maybe there's an elaborate tubing system? I don't know. Is his origin story very different in the comics? No, not really, but it happened back in the '60s and he was known as "invincible" and his suit was all ugly and grey and sort of looked like a Campbell's soup can with a head on it. But is the yellow and red color scheme any better? God no, but it looks pretty cool in the comics. So, the first two movies aren't on Netflix streaming so...what happens? Well, in the first one Stark invents the armor, defeats his father's friend who was trying to steal his company, gets it on with his personal assistant, and then tells the world that he's a super hero. The second one, well, it's best we don't talk about it. It was bad? I think bad is an understatement. But Iron Man faced off against Mickey Rourke with bad makeup and a whip. Or was there makeup? I don't know. It's so hard to tell with Mickey. Anyway Nick Fury and the Black Widow were also in the movie a lot, because it was ramping the whole thing up for The Avengers. So Iron Man is one of The Avengers? Yes, in both the movies and the comic books, Iron Man is a founding member of The Avengers. What happened to him in the Avengers movie? Do I really need to know? This already seems like so much. You don't need to know, but to see IM3 you're going to want to know. When the movie starts he has a bit of PTSD from fighting against space aliens that fell from a warmhole in the sky in the movie. So, it was a documentary? Ha, very funny. They reference this incident in New York like a half dozen times in the movie, so it's best to know what's going on. Isn't Gwyneth Paltrow in this? Yeah, she plays Pepper Potts, who is Tony Stark's personal assistant. They fall in love in the first movie and in the sequel he makes her the CEO of the company. Now she's moved in. Man, she has a crazy set of abs. It's all the Pilates. God, I hate her. Yeah, I do too, but she's not awful in this. Why is there an Iron Man suit painted like an American flag in the trailer? That's War Machine who has been dubbed the Iron Patriot in this movie. War Machine is basically just a version of Iron Man with more guns on it that the government uses as a super soldier. It is piloted by Col. James "Rhodey Rhodes, who is a friend of Tony Stark's. He was played by Terrence Howard in the first movie but was replaced by Don Cheadle for the next two. Why? Basically he was a jerk. Is there anyone else I need to know about? Jon Favreau, who is money and totally knows it, plays Happy Hogan, Tony Stark's best friend and security guard. In the comics Happy was also a villain named The Freak. Even though Favreau is a freak, that doesn't happen in the movie. He also directed the first two movies, but this one was made by Shane Black, who wrote the Lethal Weapon movies, among other things. Speaking of villains, who are the bad guys in this? Iron Man has always had really crappy villains. His big nemsis was The Mandarin, who was this Chinese guy with a long beard and 10 different magic rings that had 10 different magic powers. Ben Kingsley plays The Mandarin in the movie, but without the rings or the magic. There's also AIM, which stands for Advanced Idea Mechanics. They're like a group of scientific terrorists. Oh yeah, that sounds real terrifying! You should see their ridiculous costumes. Even comic book nerds think they're funny looking. Thanks, man. I'm glad you filled me in. Now I don't need to watch all those other movies and totally know what's going on. You're welcome. But you really should watch the first one. It's quite good. And I promise, there's not too much Gwynnie. Oh, and you should stay to the very end of the credits and there's a little surprise scene, like there is at the end of every Marvel movie. But if you haven't seen The Avengers, you're not going to get it anyway. Follow Brian Moylan on Twitter @BrianJMoylan More: A Non-Geek's Guide to The AvengersA Non-Geek's Guide to Spider-ManA Non-Geek's Guide to Batman From Our Partners:Beyonce Flaunts Bikini Bod for H&M (Celebuzz)33 Child Stars: Where Are They Now? (Celebuzz)
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Don Cheadle took anti-anxiety medication during filming of Iron Man 3
April 26, 2013 10:57am ESTActor Don Cheadle took anti-anxiety medication before donning his robot-like suit during filming of Iron Man 3 because he was so claustrophobic. The Hotel Rwanda star, who moonlights as War Machine in the new movie, wore a heavy, blue and red suit of armour in many of his scenes, and Cheadle admits it made for an extremely uncomfortable experience. During an appearance on U.S. morning show Live! With Kelly and Michael on Friday (26Apr13), he said, "You feel like a turtle. It's big, it's heavy, it's constricting, you can't touch you're face, your arms don't articulate all the way. (If you get an itch) you have to go to a zen place (and) calm down because you're not scratching. I took all kinds of things (to cope with anxiety because it's) very claustrophobic." But the 48 year old confesses he felt bad for the cleaning crew because he often relieved himself in his costume - when asked how he managed to go the bathroom, he explained, "You just go (in the suit). I don't have to clean the suit, I just have to wear the suit!"
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Don Cheadle shocked by Boston Marathon horror
April 17, 2013 4:33am ESTIron Man 2 star Don Cheadle was shocked to watch the horror of the Boston Marathon bombings unfold in Massachusetts on Monday (15Apr13) as his daughter is preparing to move to the city. The actor admits the explosions, which ripped through the crowds close to the finish line of the annual race, were especially worrying for him as a parent because his teenage daughter Ayana Tai is planning to relocate to Boston for her studies. He tells U.K. talk show Daybreak, "It was shocking for me especially because my oldest just got accepted to school in Boston. She'll be going there in the fall... "It's really troubling obviously when anything like this happens. There's a real knee-jerk sort of reaction to jump to conclusions about what this is, but we don't know what it is yet so we really have to take our time and figure out (sic) and sift through all the evidence." Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed on Monday when two bombs exploded near the final stretch of the Boston Marathon. More than 170 others were injured in the atrocity, which is being investigated by the FBI as an act of terrorism.
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Justin Long to Play Steve Jobs in a Third Biopic, This One by Funny or Die (We're Confused Too)
March 18, 2013 5:01pm ESTWe understand film studios grasping for the rights to the story of recently deceased, hotly discussed iconic figures — a category into which Steve Jobs fits quite neatly. So we weren't shocked when biopic projects about the Apple founder began to multiply: first, there was the sure-to-snag-a-trophy Aaron Sorkin picture, still in development. Then, Ashton Kutcher's independent starrer, which just lost its hold on an April release date (and has been delayed indefinitely). And now, the third and strangest incarnation: Funny or Die — you know, the website with the 5-year-old landlady and the Don Cheadle Captain Planet — is producing its own feature length film about Jobs titled iSteve, with Justin Long playing the lead role. RELATED: Aaron Sorkin's Entire Steve Jobs Biopic Will Be "Just Three Scenes" Entertainment Weekly reports that Long, whose Apple roots date back to that string of "I'm a Mac, I'm a P.C." commercials, will play Jobs in a film that took three days to write, five to shoot, and amounts to almost 75 minutes in length. So, you know, a sure-fire rival for Sorkin's piece. RELATED: 'jOBS' Is Like an Adaptation of Apple's Wiki Page, But Kutcher Sells It Alongside the star, we'll see Lost's Jorge Garcia taking the role of Steve "Woz" Wozniak, and James Urbaniak and Michaela Watkins and Bill and Melinda Gates. The film was written and directed, in the loosest definitions of the words, by Ryan Perez (Saturday Night Live), who admits to EW that the movie is "not based on very thorough research," calling it, "essentially a cursory look at the Steve Jobs Wikipedia page." So, you know, a sure-fire rival for Kutcher's movie. iSteve will premiere online on Apr. 15. Follow Michael Arbeiter on Twitter @MichaelArbeter [Photo Credit: YouTube] You Might Also Like:Topanga's Revealing Lingerie Shoot: Hello '90s! Stars Who Have Lost Roles For Being Too Hot (Celebuzz)
