Rodney King (2017)
Roger Guenveur Smith gives voice to the man at the center of the brutal police beating that helped fuel the 1992 LA uprising.
Casting
- Roger Guenveur Smith — Rodney King
Interesting facts
Rodney King is one-man show by Roger Guenveur Smith. Smith performs as a multiplicity of voices alternately supporting and opposing Rodney King's plight. It premiered in 2014 at The Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar Festival. A film version of the monologue was directed by Spike Lee and released in 2017. Smith was inspired by King's death in 2012 and researched, wrote and improvised the play over the course of a few weeks. It began streaming on April 28, 2017.
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