Kingsley Ben-Adir wears an unidentified watch

The real Malcolm X was photographed wearing watches in several styles — a man who paid attention to his appearance because he understood that presentation was part of the message. Kingsley Ben-Adir plays him in Regina King's One Night in Miami... (2020) wearing an unidentified gold-toned piece that reads as modest and deliberate, the watch of a leader who dresses well but not expensively.

The film imagines a February 1964 conversation between Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke in a Miami motel room. Ben-Adir plays Malcolm as the most intense person in the room, the one steering the conversation toward uncomfortable questions about responsibility and activism while his friends would rather celebrate. His unidentified watch fits a man whose power comes from words, not possessions.