Cedric the Entertainer on Talk to Me

CanMag - Brea, CA, USA - Cedric the Entertainer has become a movie star. He gets his own movies where he is the star. In Talk to Me, Cedric only has a few scenes. He plays a popular DJ at the radio station where Petey Greene carves out his niche. For Cedric, it was still the opportunity of a lifetime.

Cedric the Entertainer on Talk to Me

"The story was so interesting," he said. "I didn't know that these were real people when I read the script and decided to sign on. I didn't know it was a true story at the time. I just thought it was going to be fun to play a DJ and Don Cheadle was in the movie, and Taraji [P. Henson], and to have the opportunity to work with Chiwetel [Ejiofor], who's great. And Kasi Lemmons the director, all of those were some of the great aspects that I liked. The period piece of it all. The '60s, being able to wear the clothes and all of that was going to be a fun aspect of doing it. I'd done a little radio DJing in college so I thought it was a little throwback to get behind the mic and drop the voice, show you how I made it through."