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‘The Big Cigar’ Writers Say the Show Gave Them the Chance to Educate People About the Black Panther ...
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe production would pause filming for on-set discussions about race led by Don Cheadle and André...
Why Huey P. Newton Fled to Cuba Under the Guise of a Fake Movie
Biography via Yahoo News· 6 days agoBlack Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton faced a flurry of legal problems in the late 1960s and...
The True Story Behind The Big Cigar
Time via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe Black Panthers also faced constant FBI surveillance. Huey P. Newton’s great escape After co-founding the Black Panther< ...
Glynn Turman relives his Black Panther Party experiences
Rolling Out· 6 days agoGlynn Turman is cast as Walter Newton in the Apple TV+ series, "The Big Cigar," the story of Black...
André Holland Is Stellar as Huey P. Newton, but ‘The Big Cigar’ Never Ignites: TV Review
Variety· 7 days agoWhile much attention is paid to the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther Party hasn’t been as...
‘The Big Cigar’ dramatizes Black Panther Huey P. Newton’s Hollywood ties and escape to Cuba
The Day· 19 hours agoIt’s based on a 2012 Playboy magazine article by Joshuah Bearman, whose earlier reporting provided the basis for Ben Affleck’s “Argo,” in which the CIA mounts a phony film to smuggle embassy ...
The Big Cigar Is An Entertaining but Overstuffed New Hollywood caper
TV Fanatic· 7 days agoHuey P. Newton, the co-founder of The Black Panther Party, had befriended a group of countercultural...
‘The Big Cigar’ tells the wild story of Huey P. Newton’s fake-movie adventure in Hollywood
CNN via AOL· 7 days agoLong before “fake news,” “The Big Cigar” looks back to the time of a fake movie – specifically, one...
...Reveals How He Overcame Trepidation to Portray Black Panther Party Co-Founder Huey P. Newton in...
BET.com· 6 days agoIn his latest role in “The Big Cigar” on Apple TV+, Holland takes on the iconic life of Black ...
André Holland on the Tough Conversations He Had to Portray Huey P. Newton in ‘The Big Cigar’
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIn the opening narration of The Big Cigar, actor André Holland, who portrays Black Panther Party...