Don Cheadle on replacing Terrence Howard in the Avengers franchise – Variety

Don Cheadle said that he had an hour left to decide if we wanted to join the Avengers. And if the pressure was not strong enough, he received the call while he was organizing his daughter's birthday party.

Cheadle revealed so much when he sat down with VarietyMarc Malkin for an episode of Variety and the new podcast of the movie iHeart, "The Big Ticket".

Cheadle said Robert Downey Jr. and producer Kevin Feige called him at his daughter's birthday party to tell him that Terrence Howard would not be coming back as a War Machine. They gave Cheadle an hour to decide if he wanted to replace Howard. "You just have to make a leap of faith," Cheadle remembered. "But it's like in ten years. We could talk about 12 years, "said Cheadle. "I said," Well, I'm at my daughter's birthday party. They said, "Oh, take two hours. "

Cheadle said that he had seen Howard by chance the next day. "We have never had any beef," he said. The actors have known each other for years, especially for the film "Crash", which won an Oscar.

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The actor revealed that he had not learned who was disintegrating until the day of. "They were like," you cross him and he goes – Sam is disappearing. "I was like, Oh, agree." Because we did not know. They also kept us, "he said. "When I inhaled, it was difficult."

When asked who he would like Thanos to break in the dust, he replied, "I think we all know. I am pretty heavily on Twitter. Yeah. I've already released this guy many times. Cheadle has targeted President Trump on several occasions on Twitter.

Cheadle recently signed a letter denouncing the abortion bill in Georgia, H.B. 481, which limits abortion after the detection of a fetal heart rate. "Roe against Wade has been decided. And to want to come back to this matter, and this bill is particularly draconian with what he wants to do with women, it is very important that we speak and introduce ourselves, he said.

Starting next week, May 2, a new episode of "The Big Ticket" will be released every Thursday on iHeartRadio and wherever your favorite podcasts are found.

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