Bonus Episode: Directors Terence Nance (Random Acts of Flyness) & Malik Vitthal (Body Cam)

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In the midst of a global pandemic, two artists emerge with new projects. Art for your hearts and minds. First we call up multi-hyphenate talent Terence Nance (4:07), known for his HBO series Random Acts of Flyness, to discuss his healing debut EP: Things I Never Had. After that we ring up director Malik Vitthal (31:00). His new film, Body Cam, stars Mary J. Blige and is available on VOD today!

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0:00.0	Pushkin Hey everyone, it's Sam.
0:13.0	We don't normally do bonus episodes. Putting out one
0:27.8	podcast every week already takes plenty of time and energy from a whole bunch of our team members, but something
0:37.7	interesting happened, which is one day I woke up a couple weeks ago, probably late, I'm going to be honest, I probably
0:45.6	woke up late.
0:46.6	I have a hard time getting on a bed before 930, 10 a.m. in this pandemic. I'm not complaining, but it's something I need to work on. That's not the point.
0:57.0	I woke up and I realized six, seven, eight friends of mine all have new projects coming out.
1:07.0	Despite the quarantine, despite the pandemic, these are projects that these folks have been working on for years, sometimes many years.
1:17.0	And it dawned on me that if I'm not going to support my pals with new projects in this time, then what the hell am I doing here?
1:27.6	So usually this show is a conversation between me and a complete stranger.
1:35.0	Someone I do not know.
1:36.3	Someone I admire and respect, yes,
1:38.7	but someone I had no prior interaction with.
1:43.6	And I love that dynamic.
1:45.7	It feels like anything can happen.
1:47.8	There's a kind of fear and curiosity
1:50.4	embedded in that dynamic that I love, and it's why I've been doing it for four years but
1:55.0	today's bonus episode is not exactly like that. The two folks I'm having on
2:00.6	today are people I've known for many years now. Both of them are
2:06.1	filmmakers Terence Dance and Malik Vidal. Terence is the creator of
2:11.5	random acts of flyness now streaming on HBO.
2:15.0	He also directed one of my favorite films of the past 10 years
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