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Who Hurt You?

Actress Daphne Maxwell Reid - Being 'Aunt Viv' in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, racism and life lessons

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

Depth, Conversation, Comedy Interviews, Interview, Activism, Female, Comedy, Fat, Mental Health, Chat, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Feminism, Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to Daphne Maxwell Reid about growing up, auditioning, acting, leadership, living in the present, creativity, age, social media, Harriet, The Fresh Prince Reunion, vulnerability, and Will Smith’s charisma.

Content warning – coronavirus, slavery, racism

Artwork by Justine McNichol
Jingle by Harriet Braine
Produced by Dave Pickering

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0:00.0

It was iconic and it plays to the next generation and it plays to the next generation because we're still dealing with family dynamics and trying to make good decisions.

0:10.0

It made for an iconic show. I had no idea it was going to be as iconic as it has become and

0:17.2

Will had to learn on the job and he was an open book. I'm proud of his ability to open himself up to learn what he needed to do, to be better at what he was attempting to do.

0:32.0

You are listening to made of human also known as the mole part, a podcast hosted by Sophie

0:39.5

Hagen who is a Danish comedian

0:43.0

trying to find out how to do life

0:48.0

but it turns out. Nobody knows.

0:59.0

For this episode to make complete sense, you do need the full context. I'm four years old and I'm sitting on my

1:05.7

mother's bed in her bedroom in the small village of Sunnossu in Denmark. I don't like the outside,

1:12.4

I don't have many friends, I'm just flicking through channels on the tiny tiny TV I find an American

1:21.0

sitcom on some small channel so small that there are no subtitles and of

1:27.0

course they're all speaking English so I don't understand what's happening all I

1:30.9

hear is people laughing and I sit there and I watch it and very

1:37.1

soon I begin to understand what's happening on the show and what they're saying.

2:00.0

I'm now 32 and I'm sitting in my kitchen with my dog Hank making a lot of noise in the background. I don't know why he has suddenly decided to get incredibly active but I guess I am glad that he did not really do that while I had the conversation. Please don't play with that now. Is that possible? And that was a fat, he's also fatting.

2:06.7

I was passing a lot. I've just finished recording this conversation that you're about to listen to.

2:14.9

It's 10 p.m. and I've been crying because the TV show Fresh Prince of Bel Air meant so much to so many.

2:23.8

And I'm one of them.

2:25.2

I must have watched it at least 30 times,

2:28.4

beginning with that time in Sunnisu

2:31.5

on my mother's bed when I was four years old.

2:35.0

So to talk to Daphne Maxwell Reed who played Aunt Viv,

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