Don Cheadle Making A Miles Davis Biopic Called "Miles Ahead"

Don Cheadle didn't have to go and seek permission from the family of Miles Davis to make the biopic "Miles Ahead."

"The family told me that I was doing it, the permisson wasn't asked," the 50-year-old actor told Confidenti@l at the film's premiere at the New York Film Festival at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. "The gaunlet was thrown down at my feet — 'You're playing Miles Davis.' "

The movie includes the jazz trumpeter's well-documented violence against women, including third wife Cicely Tyson, said the "Iron Man 2" star.

"It's a part of him, it's what was there," said Cheadle, who co-wrote, directed and stars in the film. "It's something that he didn't shy away from talking about himself, so I think to sort of gloss over it would even be more of an insult, would be even more of an omission, even a bigger sin.

"It would rather have it come up and let's talk about it, let's discuss what that means and what it means today and how we should address it."

Co-star Ewan McGregor was familiar with the jazz legend's earlier work, "but I became very interested in him as a guy. I feel like I met him from working with Don because he was convincing at playing Miles," he said. "Whenever I tell people about this film, I tell them, "I made a movie with Miles Davis. No, Don Cheadle, because I really feel like I sort of made a movie with both of them."

As for a sequel to 1996's "Trainspotting," which helped make him a star, the Scottish actor sounded cautiously optimistic. "I think they're trying to put it together, it's not together yet. I'm hoping that it might be."

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