- My name's Kingsley Ben-Adir and I play Malcolm X.
- My name is Eli Goree and I play Cassius Clay.
- I am Aldis Hodge and I play Jim Brown.
- I'm Leslie Odom Jr. and I play Sam Cooke.
- And we, the cast of One Night in Miami
are here with BuzzFeed playing a game of Who's Who?
- [Aldis] Who's most similar to the black icon
they portrayed on-screen?
- Leslie.
- Leslie. - Leslie.
- No argument from me, I'll take that.
Eli with those 3:00 AM workouts.
That's some Cassius' dedication.
- Yeah. Yep.
No, I had to work out before the call
and then after we wrapped.
So I'd work out at 3:00 till like 5:00.
Go to set.
Do this day
and then after we wrap, we'd go back to the gym.
- [Aldis] Who's most likely to start singing randomly
on set?
- Don't say me! - Hold up, hold up, hold up.
Eli. - Kingsley!
I was sure I said Kingsley.
You said Eli. - You said Eli.
- I said me
'cause I would always be trying to sing you a song.
- [Aldis] Who's most likely to nail a scene
on the first take.
Me. - Kingsley.
- No it's true it's Aldis.
No it's true.
- Actually it is Aldis.
I take that back - It is Aldis.
- I thought everybody was gonna say me.
- It's true its you, it's true it's you.
Without question.
- [Aldis] Who's most likely to be caught at craft services.
Eli.
- Eli. - Eli.
Yeah he did say that - It's Eli.
- Yeah but only because I was like,
I had to eat like a thousand million calories a day,
so it was like, always eating.
- [Aldis] Who's most likely to break character
in the middle of a serious take.
I don't know. - Leslie.
- I can't even say Leslie no.
- I didn't mean to throw you
under the bus there Leslie.
I just remembered there was one particular evening where
that made me laugh when you,
when you're breaking character.
- I'll tell you what.
I remember a particular evening
when Kingsley scared the daylights out of some carpenter
in the back of the set who was working when
he should have been silent during a take.
Kingsley was like,
none of that. None of that.
- [Aldis] Who's best at giving relationship advice.
- Aldis. - Me?
I give life advice.
Relationship advice, miss me with that one.
- Yeah I try not to give advice on that.
- [Aldis] Who's most likely to start a podcast
about historical black figures?
- Aldis. - Aldis.
Me. I only say that
'cause I'm already starting a podcast.
I can't spill the tea out yet.
It's definitely about, social
and cultural issues that are going on.
So yeah, that's in my wheelhouse.
- [Aldis] Who's the best at doing impressions
of other cast members.
- Kingsley. - Eli.
- Don't get mad at me Leslie
cause you know I love this.
I mean it with all love
but I literally every day
at least once do the,
♪ Nationwide is on your side. ♪
And then with, with Kingsley I'd say,
yeah bruv cause I was just you know,
I was innit, you know.
When you're innit you know, you're not
you're not messing around.
There's no messing around mate.
And then with Aldis lemme see.
I mean I'm just a different kind of dude man, you know
back in the days they had that different kind of bop
and you know when it comes to me
I'm trying to really,
really pontificate about this situation.
- That's what I sound like?
Pontificate?
- You got them big words man.
- [Aldis] Who's most likely to win a game
of Regina King trivia?
Eli. - Eli.
- All day.
- Yeah I love all of her films.
I'm a huge, admirer of her.
I mean I think all of us.
All of us can answer the question.
I talk about it the most
but all of us have mentioned the fact that you know,
we're all... - Take the crown bro.
Take the crown.
- I'll take, I'll hold
but I feel like the team effort, like we all love Regina.
We all respect what you've done.
We all know all her films.
- [Aldis] Who's most likely to make Regina King laugh
from behind the camera.
You're gonna have that?
I don't know who y'all think.
- I said you.
- Me? - I said you too.
I said Aldis. - Yeah probably Aldis.
- I'll take it.
- A lot of the levity I think in the film
that comes through Jim and Cassius you know,
- Yeah yeah yeah.
- Is the charisma of the men that they were playing
but also the charisma of the actors.
Aldis played some of those moments with such truth that they
they were funny even in the room.
You know what I mean?
- [Aldis] Who's most likely to pull a prank on set?
- We really serious on that set.
- Really serious.
- We missed a lot of opportunities.
We should've been pranking each other and stuff.
- All the time.