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‘The Greatest’: Amazon’s Muhammad Ali Limited Series Casts Michael Ealy As Malcolm X & Kai Parham As Boxer’s Brother
Michael Ealy has been cast as Malcolm X in Prime Video's 'The Greatest,' a limited series about Muhammed Ali. Kai Parham will play Rudy Clay.
Although this will be the first time Ealy will embody the Civil Rights and Black Muslim movement leader in fiction, he has previously performed live readings of Malcolm X’s words, including in the documentary film The People Speak. Ealy was recently seen in the hit Starz series Power Book II: Ghost and will next be seen starring opposite Taylor Kitsch in The Terminal List: Dark Wolf for Amazon MGM Studios. He executive produced and starred in the Sony thriller The Perfect Guy, for which he received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.
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