Jazz has a higher pitch to it and it moves. He was running numbers in the '50s, right? That was a big jazz era, with big bands and bebop. How did you find that specific cadence? Did you listen to old audio footage of him?įor me, I thought about jazz. And then, once I put the hair on, I'm saying, "Oh wow, OK. I'm working on the voice and cadence when I'm doing my lines in my hotel or in my apartment where I was staying and I'm a little nervous. But once I put the hair on and had the suit on, I was able to totally lose myself and invest in all of that and that's where it starts to come alive. That's the kind of thing that allows you to say to yourself, it's showtime. The hair and the fat suit were like a cherry on top. I know you said you were working from inside out, but how much did the hair, makeup and costume departments play into this? Don's hair, especially, is so recognizable. I took all those things into consideration and boiled it down and tried to find a great concentrate that you can help bring to light in small doses. I examined his history, how he was raised, where he was raised, that time in America that I think helped influence him, and his personality, as well. I went back to look at where he came from. You look to find the little grace notes, nuances, the minutiae of darkness. And so I had to tap into that carnival barker, if you will. These are the only sides of me that I've done in theater and whatnot. And up to this point, audiences hadn't seen that side of me. And so, for me in my approach to finding Don, I feel like I possess an aspect of bombast and theatricality and bigness and a presence that, in a lot of my roles, I've had to sort of subdue. How do you depict a man who is larger than life and who is recognized even by people who don't really know who he is?įor every role that you take on, you have to have a little bit of that character inside you. Here, Hornsby talks about what it took to embody the King in the limited series. He wanted to keep the attention on him and take off the fighters because he wanted to show America and his fighters that he was the show." "In a press conference or with everything else, if he wasn't speaking - because of his height, because of the hair, because of that 30-watt smile - he drew your attention. "Don King took up the air in the room," Hornsby tells Metacritic. So Hornsby, who has never met the man, myth, and legend whom he portrays, had the extra challenge of using a supporting role to showcase someone who is not confined to the sidelines. The real King's public image suggests this depiction isn't far off from the truth. Described at one point by Tyson (who is portrayed by Trevante Rhodes) as someone who "spoke like a preacher and thought like a grandmaster," King is both bombastic and sneaky - a fast talker with the ability to manipulate anyone who stands in the way of him making a payday. King, with his infamous gray-streaked hair, thick glasses, and megawatt smile, is portrayed by Russell Hornsby in the new Hulu scripted bio-series Mike.
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