Miles Davis biopic had to have white co-star: Cheadle

Don Cheadle aimed to make a biopic of Miles Davis as "explosive" as the jazz legend's music but said Thursday the project would not have got off the ground without crowdfunding -- and a white co-star. Cheadle, 51, said compiling the financing had been a major hurdle he only cleared when he raised about $360,000 on website Indiegogo, which allows artists to collect donations for projects, and hired Scottish star Ewan McGregor. Cheadle said it forced him to rework the script, which focuses on a period in the late 1970s in which Davis fell into a creative slump, to bring in a shady Rolling Stone reporter as a kind of foil for the "Kind of Blue" trumpet player.

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