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‘Rustin’ Star Aml Ameen on His ‘Seismic’ Duty Playing MLK Jr. & How He Prepped for the ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech (Exclusive)

Aml Ameen opens up about his journey to playing Martin Luther King Jr. in ‘Rustin’ and how his dream became a reality.

Aml Ameen dreamed of playing Martin Luther King Jr. just a month before he scored the audition for Netflix’s Rustin. Aml noted that Rustin wasn’t always “intended” to be a movie that explores the complicated relationship between Dr. King and the gay civil rights activist. “But George C. Wolfe and Bruce Cohen and Tonia Davis, the producers, they started to see that the movie really needs to be about friendship and betrayal,” he said.

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