This season is shaping up as heavily loaded with musical biopics. Marc Abraham’s I Saw The Light with Tom Hiddleston as seminal country crooner Hank Williams, Robert Budreau’s Born to Be Blue forlorn jazzman Chet Baker with Ethan Hawke in the title role and Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead on jazz trumpeter and iconoclast Miles Davis, amount to an alignment of musical planets to please any fan and that make the music biography this Spring’s dominant trend. We recently spoke to five-time nominee and two-time Golden Globe winner Don Cheadle (Best Supporting Actor for The Rat Pack in 1999; Best Actor in a TV Drama for House of Lies in 2013) about his passion project on Davis, a film, which he produced, directed and starred in (along with Ewan McGregor – as musical journalist Dave Braden). Here’s what they had to say.

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