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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Aunjanue Ellis of 'Lovecraft Country' on Her Southern Roots, Making the Show, and Working in Hollywood As a Black Actress

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Bakari is joined by Aunjanue Ellis to talk about how being raised in the South influences her work as an actress (2:33), her work on the show 'Lovecraft Country' (13:47), and whether or not Hollywood is finally recognizing Black talent (18:31). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Aunjanue Ellis Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Producer: Kaya McMullen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Boccari-S Ellis podcast.

0:15.1

Today we'll be interviewing another Grammy-nominated actress, Andreu Ellis.

0:21.0

But before we get to ingenue, I wanted to commend House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

0:25.6

I'm not sure this is done enough, but in case you missed it this past week,

0:29.2

Speaker Pelosi addressed concerns from modern Democrats who threaten to stop Democrats 3.5 trillion,

0:35.3

yes that's trillion with a T dollar spending package if there wasn't a clear path and a date

0:40.7

certain on voting out the 1.9 trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure package.

0:46.8

After some infighting between House D's Pelosi emerged with a deal that cleared the way

0:52.0

for the House to flesh out the 3.5 trillion dollar

0:55.2

proposal that would invest in paid leave, affordable housing, lower prescription drug

0:59.7

prices, and extend the child tax credit folks have been getting since last month.

1:05.0

And she's set to on September 27th have a deadline to vote out the infrastructure

1:11.4

package that would make historic improvements in our roads, bridges,

1:14.8

airports, broadband, and a whole lot of other great shit.

1:18.7

Most importantly, these two packages represent the core of the Biden domestic agenda and if they fail an already

1:25.4

uphill battle for Democrats in 2022 would likely be over and 2024 would be in

1:30.9

jeopardy for the president.

1:32.8

So Pelosi put out these fires and moving these massive packages along are the right politics

1:39.2

and the right policy because we need this money and Joe Biden needs these wins as does every Democrat

1:45.8

running next year because while there is a real disappointment around

1:49.0

Washington for voting rights and police reform if they don't get these justice issues resolved and

1:55.2

drop the ball on things that Democrats are expected to do around infrastructure and social

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