But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.
I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles. Thirty years later, there's still the same sort of excitement I get from it. It's still fun to inhabit different characters and play different things, so it's all in that panoply of acting.
It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.
We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.
Don has two daughters, Imani and Ayana.
Got his first big break starring as the hotel clerk on the short lived Golden Girls spin off The Golden Palace alongside Cheech Marin.
After acting in Hotel Rwanda (2004), a film about the early 1990s Rwandan genocide, he became an activist to raise awareness of the mid-2000s genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. In January 2005 he traveled to Sudan with five members of congress to see refugee camps and to meet survivors of the genocide. Upon his return, he reported on his trip for "ABC News Nightline" (1980).
He is the brother of Colin Cheadle.
He got an Academy Award nomination for Hotel Rwanda.
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