Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

Very excited to bring you my conversation today with not only one of the best actors in Hollywood,

but the best guys in Hollywood.

He is Don

Cheatel. I will not begin to attempt to list all of the films and TV shows on his resume

because it's exhausting, and I know I'll leave out your favorite one. There are just too many.

Suffice it to say he's been nominated for an Academy Award for Hotel Rwanda. He has won

Golden Globes. He has won a Tony Award. He has won two Grammys, even. The man is unbelievable.

You'll hear us in this conversation talk about the year 2004, which I think is a good snapshot of

his range, which was Oceans 12, the second Oceans movie, Hotel Rwanda, the movie that earned him that

Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and Crash, which he starred in and also produced

and won the Academy Award that year for Best Picture. That was all in one year for Don Chito.

By the way, in that exchange, I think I'd say

Ocean's 11 was 2004, was actually Ocean's 12, just for the record. But I think you'll enjoy

getting to know him if you don't know his story and his background where he comes from.

I mean, you can throw in Boogie Knights. I think his big breakthrough we talk about is

Devil in a Blue D blue dress where he starred with

Denzel Washington. He's just an amazing actor who can do everything. And his latest is a new

series streaming on Peacock called Fight Night, the Million Dollar Heist. He'll explain it to you

based on true events, which makes it so cool. A Muhammad Ali fight in Atlanta in 1970.

There's a big after party for all these big celebrities that were in town and every gangster from every town, every big city in the country

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