Barry Jenkins on ‘The Underground Railroad’

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Larry briefly weighs in on the conservative attack on women’s reproductive right, as well as alien conspiracy theories to open the show (01:00). Later, he is joined by Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins to discuss adapting Colson Whitehead’s novel into the television series ‘The Underground Railroad’ on Amazon Prime (13:00). Later, they discuss the art of directing (34:00), and avoiding the creation of Black trauma porn when telling stories that are intertwined with Black history (1:10:00). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Barry Jenkins Producer: Kaya McMullen Production Assistant: Jonathan Kermah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, I'm Shay Serrano, and I'm Brandon Jinks Jenkins.
0:06.4	We have a new show called No Skips with Jinks and Shay, and we discussed the most unskippable
0:10.9	albums in hip hop history.
0:12.5	New episode's drop on Thursdays, only on Spotify.
0:15.3	Hey, welcome back, everybody.
0:23.5	This is Larry.
0:24.5	One more you are listening to Black on the Air.
0:27.1	I appreciate you choosing this podcast.
0:30.0	As always, try to have fun smart conversations here with the things I'm primarily interested
0:35.6	in.
0:36.6	I hope that you are too.
0:37.6	You never know what you're going to get here.
0:39.2	We seem to be having a lot of directors on lately, but I love talking about film and writing
0:44.5	in that, and we have another one this week.
0:46.3	This is one of my favorites.
0:47.3	You guys, Barry Jenkins, who has just directed limited series called The Underground Railroad
0:54.0	based on Colson Whitehead's brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning book, And Man.
0:59.2	This thing is amazing.
1:01.8	So an Amazon Prime, you guys really need to see it, but our conversation is so much fun.
1:06.4	I can have conversations like the one that I have with Barry just had recently, just
1:12.0	forever, as you could tell.
1:13.0	We're going for about an hour.
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