Aldis Hodge : “It was fantastic stepping into this, being a comic book fan myself. I had a great love for the entire world when it comes to superheroes, when it comes JSA, when it comes DC. DC got me into the game as a kid. I know how much the fans really love who this character is. It was a privilege and responsibility to step into his shoes It reinstills in me, belief, faith and hope in your own personal dreams, living your creativity, living your imagination because what we truly made here is magical We’re working our butts off, but we’re living our dreams. I’m just privileged to share this space with the fans and I can’t wait for what they have to say”

philstar Tuesday, October 18, 2022 8:30:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge says ( about Adam Garcia ) : "Black Adam does kill openly a lot of bad guys,"

nepalnews Tuesday, October 18, 2022 2:01:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge concluded : "Because we put our heart, literally blood, sweat and tears into this"

AfricaNews-English Thursday, October 13, 2022 7:27:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge : “He’s more brutal, uncompromising, fueled by the depths of his pain. He’s Black Adam”

wsvn Wednesday, October 20, 2021 4:38:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “For me, it is the exploration of understanding what Boston is and the city and his [Decourcy’s] place in it,” “He came with a mission and he is still trying to figure out how to accomplish that mission. What makes the city work, the people work, his job environment work. It’s a tasking challenge, working as an Assistant District Attorney in a system where you see the solutions that need to be accomplished, but also see the problems. He’s really trying to establish who he is as a man”

baltimore-cbslocal Monday, March 29, 2021 3:04:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “What it means for me to be in a show like this is that it’s an opportunity,” “I’m fortunate and really lucky to have been attached to projects and sort of carved out a pathway that speaks to my voice personally. I can step into the shoes on screen that speak to the shoes that I walk every day on the sidewalk. This is not a far-fetched reality for me”

baltimore-cbslocal Monday, March 29, 2021 3:04:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “For me, it is the exploration of understanding what Boston is and the city and his [Decourcy’s] place in it,” “He came with a mission and he is still trying to figure out how to accomplish that mission. What makes the city work, the people work, his job environment work. It’s a tasking challenge, working as an Assistant District Attorney in a system where you see the solutions that need to be accomplished, but also see the problems. He’s really trying to establish who he is as a man”

baltimore-cbslocal Monday, March 29, 2021 12:47:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “What it means for me to be in a show like this is that it’s an opportunity,” “I’m fortunate and really lucky to have been attached to projects and sort of carved out a pathway that speaks to my voice personally. I can step into the shoes on screen that speak to the shoes that I walk every day on the sidewalk. This is not a far-fetched reality for me”

baltimore-cbslocal Monday, March 29, 2021 12:47:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “This show is one of those venues where I can communicate with people what is going on and how it is going on. Even though we are set in the ’90s, we are still living this in 2021,”

masslive Saturday, March 27, 2021 4:42:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “This show is one of those venues where I can communicate with people what is going on and how it is going on. Even though we are set in the ’90s, we are still living this in 2021,”

readingeagle Friday, March 26, 2021 11:38:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge afirma : “Todos queriam o mesmo objetivo, mas tinham maneiras diferentes de chegar lá” “Ver aquelas quatro pessoas poderosas num quarto tentando descobrir como trabalhar juntas é monumental. Quando digo poderosas, não é pelo dinheiro, mas pelo potencial de influência de cada uma delas. Ninguém ficam dizendo estou certo, e você errado. É um retrato lindo de amor fraterno”

uai Monday, January 18, 2021 3:06:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge disse : "Eles todos queriam o mesmo objetivo, mas tinham maneiras diferentes de chegar lá"

bemparana Friday, January 15, 2021 2:03:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge told : "It's a wonderful celebration of these four men, a wonderful celebration of their friendship and of what they contributed to us as a people and, to a greater extent, to us as a country, because we all benefit from what they have given, what they have sacrificed,"

upi Friday, January 15, 2021 11:15:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "He has been this mega-star football player, but he still knows how people see him and treat him,"

upi Friday, January 15, 2021 11:15:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "I see him as an entrepreneur and a businessman, so I wanted to understand his business acumen and mentality," "I started studying that because, after this particular year, 1964, very soon after, he goes on to retire [from football], makes his transition into film and television. A few years later, he starts the Black Economic Union"

upi Friday, January 15, 2021 11:15:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "He's still teaching and still trying to push that positivity in the community,"

upi Friday, January 15, 2021 11:15:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge : “You don’t want to get the call that he’s like, ‘So, uh, I saw what you did, and it was trash.'”

wsvn Tuesday, January 12, 2021 5:40:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge told : “That scene, for me, is the truest reflection of the nucleus of so many problems that we’re going through today and that we have been going through in this country: people with an aversion to the idea they have work to do when it comes to how they treat other people,”

suntimes Monday, January 11, 2021 6:19:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said ( about Jim Brown ) : “You mentioned [Brown] was larger than life, and that is true, all of these men were,” “The thing we had to keep in mind was we’re not playing what WE know of them, we’re playing the human beings. So, we had to strip away the magnitude of their greatness and get down to the human that was going through something that eventually built up to that greatness”

suntimes Monday, January 11, 2021 6:19:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “I felt like Jim served as a translator,” “In this film, the conversation is the star. The conversation is the glue that keeps us in the room and keeps the audience in their seats. It’s a brilliantly crafted conversation by Kemp Powers. I think where we find Jim in this whole spectrum is, he’s able to understand what Malcolm is saying and what he wants while at the same time what Sam is saying and what HE wants. He realizes they’re not hearing each other — and that’s [often] where we are to this day as a culture, in that a lot of us are shooting at the same goal, we’re just using different means of getting there. Jim is trying to bridge the gap between the two guys”

suntimes Monday, January 11, 2021 6:19:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "I had been very, very much looking forward to being a part of any kind of superhero universe. "

southernminn Wednesday, November 11, 2020 5:43:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge diz : “Fui criado com a Ku Klux Klan por perto. Nada do que está acontecendo é novidade” “O que mudou é que quem sempre negou a existência do racismo e da brutalidade policial não tem mais como negá-las. Então, esse filme é uma grande oportunidade de provocar debates para que tenhamos progresso. A verdade é que não importa quanto sucesso e dinheiro tenhamos, ainda somos negros no mundo e nos Estados Unidos”

uai Wednesday, September 30, 2020 2:32:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge disse : “Eu fui criado com a Ku Klux Klan por perto. Nada do que está acontecendo é novidade” “O que mudou é que quem sempre negou a existência do racismo e da brutalidade policial não tem mais como negar. Então este filme é uma grande oportunidade de provocar debates para que tenhamos progresso. Porque a verdade é que não importa quanto sucesso e dinheiro tenhamos, ainda somos negros no mundo e nos Estados Unidos”

istoe Saturday, September 26, 2020 3:04:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "It's very tough because you've got to trust the process, you've got to trust the project. But is this project going to serve, to elevate, the perception of my culture? Or does it serve the detriment of my culture? That is a responsibility that we carry, and it's often the risk we take, as entertainers, giving our portrayals," "What most people don't get is that they don't see that, of the very specific roles that you've chosen, are probably about 80 and 90% of the roles that you had passed your way to get to those roles, were trash, trash, trash, trash"

nbcnews Thursday, July 23, 2020 7:41:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge noted : "There is a consideration that is not given to Black men and women, when it comes to the hair and makeup trailer, of having Black cast members come on and giving them the environment to win, to thrive,"

nbcnews Wednesday, July 22, 2020 7:32:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge comentou : “Percebi que o filme era muito inteligente por causa do assunto abordado e pelo modo do tratamento: há questões universais que realmente afetam as mulheres”

correiobraziliense Saturday, February 29, 2020 2:10:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge says : “She brought this infectious energy to set every single day. She was so excited about this film and working and going and just laughing and happy,”

thegrio Saturday, February 8, 2020 2:15:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "My ambition for this film is the potential it has to really open people's minds and open people's eyes the way it opened mine,"

upi Tuesday, December 24, 2019 9:33:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "I have definitely never had somebody telling me how I'm going to die," "Most of us never have had that experience, so what is that really like? That means looking at all the things you're going to miss out on, all the things, all the hopes and dreams. I wanted the audience to really see that thought pattern happen physically on someone's face"

upi Tuesday, December 24, 2019 9:33:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "I just said, 'That is the take y'all better use because if y'all don't use that take, it don't get more real than that,'" "When I'm sitting in the hospital bed, there's an actual knot on my head. That was not makeup"

upi Tuesday, December 24, 2019 9:33:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "I love watching that scene the most with audiences because I know exactly how they're going to respond,"

upi Tuesday, December 24, 2019 9:33:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “I am innocent and the truth matters,”

wsvn Friday, September 13, 2019 6:54:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge explains ( about Brian Banks ) : “I think the most pressure I had was really trying to get Brian’s light and his spirit as accurate as possible when it came to people seeing who this man was. I’m like ‘This is your life…your legacy. I want people to understand the truth of who you are the way that I see you.’ You know he’s all light and positivity and he’s truly survived and thrived from where he once started and prison. So I think that that was the biggest obstacle to really overcome was making sure that people saw who he was as a man and as a human being and not as he was attached to a situation,”

thegrio Saturday, August 10, 2019 5:04:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge says : “Our friendship, honestly, is one of the most organic things that came out of this,”

whittierdailynews Wednesday, August 7, 2019 9:20:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge says : “The potential for the effectiveness of this particular story,”

whittierdailynews Wednesday, August 7, 2019 9:20:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge recalls : “We just talked about everything he went through from the best of his recollection,” “Every time there was a scene I’d talk to him about it first. ‘Hey man, what was your mindset? How did you feel here? What were your fears?’ Different things, and he was just open and available, which made the process of trying to find him much easier. You know, I had my ideas of what it was, but you had the source material right there. It doesn’t get better”

whittierdailynews Wednesday, August 7, 2019 9:20:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge says : “Our friendship, honestly, is one of the most organic things that came out of this,”

dailynews Wednesday, August 7, 2019 8:40:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge says : “The potential for the effectiveness of this particular story,”

dailynews Wednesday, August 7, 2019 8:40:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge recalls : “We just talked about everything he went through from the best of his recollection,” “Every time there was a scene I’d talk to him about it first. ‘Hey man, what was your mindset? How did you feel here? What were your fears?’ Different things, and he was just open and available, which made the process of trying to find him much easier. You know, I had my ideas of what it was, but you had the source material right there. It doesn’t get better”

dailynews Wednesday, August 7, 2019 8:40:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “They both represent two sides of the same coin,”

nytimes Monday, June 17, 2019 2:52:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “It’s grimy, grungy and raw,”

chicagotribune Tuesday, June 11, 2019 7:43:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge : “It was fantastic stepping into this, being a comic book fan myself. I had a great love for the entire world when it comes to superheroes, when it comes JSA, when it comes DC. DC got me into the game as a kid. I know how much the fans really love who this character is. It was a privilege and responsibility to step into his shoes It reinstills in me, belief, faith and hope in your own personal dreams, living your creativity, living your imagination because what we truly made here is magical We’re working our butts off, but we’re living our dreams. I’m just privileged to share this space with the fans and I can’t wait for what they have to say”

philstar Tuesday, October 18, 2022 8:30:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge says ( about Adam Garcia ) : "Black Adam does kill openly a lot of bad guys,"

nepalnews Tuesday, October 18, 2022 2:01:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge concluded : "Because we put our heart, literally blood, sweat and tears into this"

AfricaNews-English Thursday, October 13, 2022 7:27:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge : “He’s more brutal, uncompromising, fueled by the depths of his pain. He’s Black Adam”

wsvn Wednesday, October 20, 2021 4:38:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “For me, it is the exploration of understanding what Boston is and the city and his [Decourcy’s] place in it,” “He came with a mission and he is still trying to figure out how to accomplish that mission. What makes the city work, the people work, his job environment work. It’s a tasking challenge, working as an Assistant District Attorney in a system where you see the solutions that need to be accomplished, but also see the problems. He’s really trying to establish who he is as a man”

baltimore-cbslocal Monday, March 29, 2021 3:04:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “What it means for me to be in a show like this is that it’s an opportunity,” “I’m fortunate and really lucky to have been attached to projects and sort of carved out a pathway that speaks to my voice personally. I can step into the shoes on screen that speak to the shoes that I walk every day on the sidewalk. This is not a far-fetched reality for me”

baltimore-cbslocal Monday, March 29, 2021 3:04:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “For me, it is the exploration of understanding what Boston is and the city and his [Decourcy’s] place in it,” “He came with a mission and he is still trying to figure out how to accomplish that mission. What makes the city work, the people work, his job environment work. It’s a tasking challenge, working as an Assistant District Attorney in a system where you see the solutions that need to be accomplished, but also see the problems. He’s really trying to establish who he is as a man”

baltimore-cbslocal Monday, March 29, 2021 12:47:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “What it means for me to be in a show like this is that it’s an opportunity,” “I’m fortunate and really lucky to have been attached to projects and sort of carved out a pathway that speaks to my voice personally. I can step into the shoes on screen that speak to the shoes that I walk every day on the sidewalk. This is not a far-fetched reality for me”

baltimore-cbslocal Monday, March 29, 2021 12:47:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “This show is one of those venues where I can communicate with people what is going on and how it is going on. Even though we are set in the ’90s, we are still living this in 2021,”

masslive Saturday, March 27, 2021 4:42:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “This show is one of those venues where I can communicate with people what is going on and how it is going on. Even though we are set in the ’90s, we are still living this in 2021,”

readingeagle Friday, March 26, 2021 11:38:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge afirma : “Todos queriam o mesmo objetivo, mas tinham maneiras diferentes de chegar lá” “Ver aquelas quatro pessoas poderosas num quarto tentando descobrir como trabalhar juntas é monumental. Quando digo poderosas, não é pelo dinheiro, mas pelo potencial de influência de cada uma delas. Ninguém ficam dizendo estou certo, e você errado. É um retrato lindo de amor fraterno”

uai Monday, January 18, 2021 3:06:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge disse : "Eles todos queriam o mesmo objetivo, mas tinham maneiras diferentes de chegar lá"

bemparana Friday, January 15, 2021 2:03:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge told : "It's a wonderful celebration of these four men, a wonderful celebration of their friendship and of what they contributed to us as a people and, to a greater extent, to us as a country, because we all benefit from what they have given, what they have sacrificed,"

upi Friday, January 15, 2021 11:15:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "He has been this mega-star football player, but he still knows how people see him and treat him,"

upi Friday, January 15, 2021 11:15:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "I see him as an entrepreneur and a businessman, so I wanted to understand his business acumen and mentality," "I started studying that because, after this particular year, 1964, very soon after, he goes on to retire [from football], makes his transition into film and television. A few years later, he starts the Black Economic Union"

upi Friday, January 15, 2021 11:15:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "He's still teaching and still trying to push that positivity in the community,"

upi Friday, January 15, 2021 11:15:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge : “You don’t want to get the call that he’s like, ‘So, uh, I saw what you did, and it was trash.'”

wsvn Tuesday, January 12, 2021 5:40:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge told : “That scene, for me, is the truest reflection of the nucleus of so many problems that we’re going through today and that we have been going through in this country: people with an aversion to the idea they have work to do when it comes to how they treat other people,”

suntimes Monday, January 11, 2021 6:19:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said ( about Jim Brown ) : “You mentioned [Brown] was larger than life, and that is true, all of these men were,” “The thing we had to keep in mind was we’re not playing what WE know of them, we’re playing the human beings. So, we had to strip away the magnitude of their greatness and get down to the human that was going through something that eventually built up to that greatness”

suntimes Monday, January 11, 2021 6:19:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “I felt like Jim served as a translator,” “In this film, the conversation is the star. The conversation is the glue that keeps us in the room and keeps the audience in their seats. It’s a brilliantly crafted conversation by Kemp Powers. I think where we find Jim in this whole spectrum is, he’s able to understand what Malcolm is saying and what he wants while at the same time what Sam is saying and what HE wants. He realizes they’re not hearing each other — and that’s [often] where we are to this day as a culture, in that a lot of us are shooting at the same goal, we’re just using different means of getting there. Jim is trying to bridge the gap between the two guys”

suntimes Monday, January 11, 2021 6:19:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "I had been very, very much looking forward to being a part of any kind of superhero universe. "

southernminn Wednesday, November 11, 2020 5:43:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge diz : “Fui criado com a Ku Klux Klan por perto. Nada do que está acontecendo é novidade” “O que mudou é que quem sempre negou a existência do racismo e da brutalidade policial não tem mais como negá-las. Então, esse filme é uma grande oportunidade de provocar debates para que tenhamos progresso. A verdade é que não importa quanto sucesso e dinheiro tenhamos, ainda somos negros no mundo e nos Estados Unidos”

uai Wednesday, September 30, 2020 2:32:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge disse : “Eu fui criado com a Ku Klux Klan por perto. Nada do que está acontecendo é novidade” “O que mudou é que quem sempre negou a existência do racismo e da brutalidade policial não tem mais como negar. Então este filme é uma grande oportunidade de provocar debates para que tenhamos progresso. Porque a verdade é que não importa quanto sucesso e dinheiro tenhamos, ainda somos negros no mundo e nos Estados Unidos”

istoe Saturday, September 26, 2020 3:04:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "It's very tough because you've got to trust the process, you've got to trust the project. But is this project going to serve, to elevate, the perception of my culture? Or does it serve the detriment of my culture? That is a responsibility that we carry, and it's often the risk we take, as entertainers, giving our portrayals," "What most people don't get is that they don't see that, of the very specific roles that you've chosen, are probably about 80 and 90% of the roles that you had passed your way to get to those roles, were trash, trash, trash, trash"

nbcnews Thursday, July 23, 2020 7:41:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge noted : "There is a consideration that is not given to Black men and women, when it comes to the hair and makeup trailer, of having Black cast members come on and giving them the environment to win, to thrive,"

nbcnews Wednesday, July 22, 2020 7:32:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge comentou : “Percebi que o filme era muito inteligente por causa do assunto abordado e pelo modo do tratamento: há questões universais que realmente afetam as mulheres”

correiobraziliense Saturday, February 29, 2020 2:10:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge says : “She brought this infectious energy to set every single day. She was so excited about this film and working and going and just laughing and happy,”

thegrio Saturday, February 8, 2020 2:15:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "My ambition for this film is the potential it has to really open people's minds and open people's eyes the way it opened mine,"

upi Tuesday, December 24, 2019 9:33:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "I have definitely never had somebody telling me how I'm going to die," "Most of us never have had that experience, so what is that really like? That means looking at all the things you're going to miss out on, all the things, all the hopes and dreams. I wanted the audience to really see that thought pattern happen physically on someone's face"

upi Tuesday, December 24, 2019 9:33:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "I just said, 'That is the take y'all better use because if y'all don't use that take, it don't get more real than that,'" "When I'm sitting in the hospital bed, there's an actual knot on my head. That was not makeup"

upi Tuesday, December 24, 2019 9:33:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : "I love watching that scene the most with audiences because I know exactly how they're going to respond,"

upi Tuesday, December 24, 2019 9:33:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “I am innocent and the truth matters,”

wsvn Friday, September 13, 2019 6:54:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge explains ( about Brian Banks ) : “I think the most pressure I had was really trying to get Brian’s light and his spirit as accurate as possible when it came to people seeing who this man was. I’m like ‘This is your life…your legacy. I want people to understand the truth of who you are the way that I see you.’ You know he’s all light and positivity and he’s truly survived and thrived from where he once started and prison. So I think that that was the biggest obstacle to really overcome was making sure that people saw who he was as a man and as a human being and not as he was attached to a situation,”

thegrio Saturday, August 10, 2019 5:04:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge says : “Our friendship, honestly, is one of the most organic things that came out of this,”

whittierdailynews Wednesday, August 7, 2019 9:20:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge says : “The potential for the effectiveness of this particular story,”

whittierdailynews Wednesday, August 7, 2019 9:20:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge recalls : “We just talked about everything he went through from the best of his recollection,” “Every time there was a scene I’d talk to him about it first. ‘Hey man, what was your mindset? How did you feel here? What were your fears?’ Different things, and he was just open and available, which made the process of trying to find him much easier. You know, I had my ideas of what it was, but you had the source material right there. It doesn’t get better”

whittierdailynews Wednesday, August 7, 2019 9:20:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge says : “Our friendship, honestly, is one of the most organic things that came out of this,”

dailynews Wednesday, August 7, 2019 8:40:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge says : “The potential for the effectiveness of this particular story,”

dailynews Wednesday, August 7, 2019 8:40:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge recalls : “We just talked about everything he went through from the best of his recollection,” “Every time there was a scene I’d talk to him about it first. ‘Hey man, what was your mindset? How did you feel here? What were your fears?’ Different things, and he was just open and available, which made the process of trying to find him much easier. You know, I had my ideas of what it was, but you had the source material right there. It doesn’t get better”

dailynews Wednesday, August 7, 2019 8:40:00 PM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “They both represent two sides of the same coin,”

nytimes Monday, June 17, 2019 2:52:00 AM EAT

Aldis Hodge said : “It’s grimy, grungy and raw,”

chicagotribune Tuesday, June 11, 2019 7:43:00 PM EAT