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Venice: Regina King on Why Her Directorial Debut 'One Night in Miami' Is a "Story That Needed to Be Told"

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For more than 30 years, Regina King has been acting's equivalent of the go-to player. Whatever role directors threw at her — Detective Lydia Adams on the TNT police drama Southland, the unflappable Sharon Rivers in Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk, or an honest-to-god superhero in Damon Lindelof's Watchmen for HBO — King has hit it out of the park.

Now with one Oscar (for If Beale Street Could Talk) and three Emmys on her shelf (and a possible fourth on the way for her performance inWatchmen), King has stepped behind the camera.

One Night in Miami, her feature debut as a director, is an adaptation of Kemp Power's acclaimed 2013 play, which imagines what was said in a real-life meeting between Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay),.

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