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The new Peacock limited series 'Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist' is based on a true story about an armed robbery that occurred on the night of Muhammad Ali's 1970 comeback fight in Atlanta. Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Hart headline a star-studded cast that also includes Don Cheadle, Chloe Bailey and Sinqua Walls, among others. Several members of the cast spoke to The Hollywood Reporter all about working on the Peacock limited series.

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00:00The pulse of the city was hard, fast, and growing.

00:07And anybody with any sense or any vision could see that Atlanta was going to be what it became.

00:14The new Peacock limited series Fight Night, the Million Dollar Heist,

00:18is based on a true story about an armed robbery that occurred on the night of Muhammad Ali's 1970 comeback fight in Atlanta.

00:24The series explores how Atlanta became the black mecca of the United States.

00:27Atlanta has pushed all her chips in. This will turn our little city into a major one.

00:32We are a vibrant, inclusive city that's open for business.

00:36Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Hart headline a star-studded cast that also includes Don Cheadle, Chloe Bailey, and Sin Qua Walls, among others.

00:43Several members of the cast spoke to The Hollywood Reporter all about working on the new show.

00:47Jackson, who graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta in the early 1970s,

00:51opened up about his memories surrounding the historic fight that took place in the city while he lived there.

00:56Yeah, I couldn't afford to buy a ticket to the fight, and I didn't know anybody was throwing the party,

01:01so I wasn't in there, but I knew people who were.

01:03Meanwhile, Cheadle shared how he got involved in the project.

01:06This was something that Kevin and Will Packer produced it,

01:10and Craig Brewer, also producer, our director for the first two and last two episodes,

01:14called me very passionate about me being a part of it.

01:18I was the last person cast.

01:21I had worked with everybody else in this cast, you know, not Dexter, who plays Ali,

01:24but Taraji and Terrence and Sam and Kevin.

01:27And I was excited about seeing, you know, what we would all do together under one roof, so to speak.

01:35Cheadle portrays real person J.D. Hudson,

01:37who was one of the first black detectives in Atlanta's desegregated police force.

01:41The actor revealed why he thinks Hudson continued to work with the police department,

01:45despite the injustices he and the black community were experiencing at the time.

01:49Well, I think for him, he saw that the only way out was through, you know.

01:53Quitting was not an option.

01:54Stepping back was not an option.

01:56Trying to force, you know, things into the world the way he wanted them to be was the only way to work.

02:02And I think he saw himself rightfully as being someone who would hold the door open and let others come in behind him

02:12and would take the, you know, bear the brunt of what that institutionalized racism was that he was dealing with

02:20to hopefully get to the other side where there would be more representation,

02:25greater justice for people who look like him and came from the communities that he came from.

02:30Bailey and Walls also appear in the series.

02:33They opened up about what it was like working with Jackson, Cheadle, and Hart.

02:36It was amazing.

02:38I remember trying to pump myself up before specific scenes that I knew they would be in,

02:43and I was like, okay, you can do this.

02:46You can hold your own.

02:48You got this.

02:49And, you know, actually doing it after the fact, I was like, why are you stressing so much, Khloe?

02:54Like, everyone just made it feel so comfortable and warm and welcoming on set.

03:00Being able to watch all these different actors that I look up to, that we look up to,

03:05and the fact that they've touched so many different pinnacles in their career,

03:08that they could have so much humility, that they could be so supportive,

03:11they could be so gracious, so giving, was amazing.

03:15You know, to watch each person has defined a lane for themselves and how they did that

03:19and how they do that with grace and intention is just something that I just took for myself

03:23as it continued to continuously grow as an artist.

03:25In the series, Jackson plays New York gangster Frank Moten.

03:29When asked if he envisioned back in the 1970s that Atlanta would become what it is today,

03:33the actor said this.

03:34The pulse of the city was hard, fast, and growing.

03:41And anybody with any sense or any vision could see that Atlanta was going to be what it became.

03:48It became what Frank's vision was.

03:51And he had the right idea when he wanted that land over there by the airport

03:55because, you know, that's valuable.

03:57That was like platinum.

03:58It wasn't gold.

03:59It was platinum.

04:00You know, so the idea that he had, you know, he understood it.

04:04And he understood that because his grandmother told him that they had a legacy that was theirs,

04:10that red clay, you know, that's our blood in that dirt, you know.

04:14So, yeah, we're owed that.

04:17And she was right.

04:17Fight Night The Million Dollar Heist is now streaming on Peacock.

04:21This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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