At 74, Actor Glynn Turman Keeps On

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

At age 74, Emmy award-winning actor Glynn Turman “keeps on keepin’ on.” This week on the show, he tells us how. We discuss his first role in Broadway’s original production of A Raisin in the Sun (5:03), his unwavering commitment to acting, even as he struggled to find work (11:28), an opening night that took a dark turn (14:44), his breakout role in Cooley High (20:21), going to a human place as an actor (25:36), and what it means to live with loss (27:13). Then, finally, a story about his late ex-wife, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin (31:30).

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	This is talk easy. I'm Samford Gossa. Welcome to the show. Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hey everyone. Thanks for being here. Today I am joined by actor Glenn Turman. Now
0:48.6	Glenn has been acting since the age of 12 when he landed a role in Lorraine Hansberry's seminal play, A Raisin in the Sun.
0:59.2	You'll hear about that in a moment.
1:01.0	Since then, Termin has been your kind of consummate working actor. On Broadway, in Hollywood, in TV shows and movies, he's done at all. From his breakout performance as preach in Cooley High to his latest turn
1:16.8	as Dr. Senator in the new season of Fargo, Terman has been a quiet force. But most recently he delivered a potent performance in Ma Rainey's
1:28.6	Black Bottom. Based on the August Wilson play, it's about the legendary Blues Woman,
1:34.4	recording an album of her greatest hits on a hot Chicago day in 1927.
1:40.2	Termin in the role of Toledo the piano player
1:44.0	Stars alongside viola Davis, Coleman Domingo,
1:48.0	and the late Chadwick Bozeman.
1:50.0	Here's a clip from the trailer.
1:52.0	A one, a two, a you know what to do.
1:57.0	A, uh, uh, uh, uh,
2:00.0	it's be an empty world without the blues.
2:05.0	I try to take that emptiness and fill it up and salt. But they want to call me Mother Blues, that's all right with me. It don't hurt none. Where's the horn player?
2:25.0	The horn player.
2:27.0	Come on, Levy. You rehearsed like everybody else.
2:30.0	I'm gonna give me a band and make me some records.
2:32.0	I know how to play real music, not this just... I'm gonna give me a band and make me some records.
2:32.8	I know how to play real music, not this jug-bed shit.
2:35.8	He called, we play music, I know what I'm doing.
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