Regina King has played her fair share of detectives over her 40-year career, so she knows how to prepare to re-join the force onscreen — from interviewing real-life officers about their experiences on the force or going on ride-alongs while they’re on duty.

The Oscar and multiple Emmy winner did all that for Darren Aronofsky’s new crime drama “Caught Stealing,” which follows Hank ( Austin Butler ), a washed-up MLB prospect turned bartender who agrees to watch his drug-dealing neighbor’s cat while he’s out of town and ends up running afoul of two sets of competing gangsters and the police. Because Aronofsky aimed to capture a particular place in time —New York’s Lower East Side on the brink of Y2K — King drilled down on the specifics. To play Detective Elise Roman, a Harlem-bred offic

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