In the finale of Apple TV+'s 'The Big Cigar,' Huey P. Newton, played by André Holland, tells how the Black Panther co-founder understood the 'revolutionary power of media.'
The very essence of “The Big Cigar” is frenetic. The Apple TV+ limited series, a slice-of-life biopic, follows the stranger-than-fiction story of Huey P. Newton — the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, played by a stoic André Holland — and his escape from the FBI to exile in Cuba. The whole thing, from Oakland to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Cozumel, is a scrambled, mad dash. But Newton retains control of his narrative, neatly bookending it with narration.
“If Huey was alive and working on the show, he probably also would have been exercising the type of critical analysis that the voice in the show is doing,” Bearman said. “It wasn't that he just was like, ‘Oh, the movies. I get it, they're great. They help us tell our story.’ It would have been a conversation and engagement.
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