Jason Mitchell had his big breakout role in 2015?s Straight Outta Compton, receiving accolades for his portrayal of Eazy-E. Since then he?s appeared in Kong: Skull Island, Keanu and, now, playing the pivotal role of Carl Cooper in Kathryn Bigelow?s Detroit (read our review of the film here). The entire second act of Detroit recreates the incident at The Algiers Motel ? an intense and deadly police interrogation after there were reports that gunfire had come from the motel, which was most likely just Carl Cooper?s harmless starting pistol.