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The Business

Cliff Curtis Becomes 'The Dark Horse;' 'Catastrophe' Is Back

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

After years of playing drug dealers and terrorists, Maori actor Cliff Curtis is finally finding more complex, nuanced roles. He tells us how he's able to bring his own background to two recent leading man roles. And Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, creators and stars of Catastrophe talk about the anxiety leading up to their second season.

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0:00.0

On To the Point, we try to make sense of the policy debates and the political sideshows on the campaign trail.

0:05.8

You have this kind of asymmetrical warfare coming from a guy who's graded at a soundbite, lousy at an answer.

0:11.4

Are you looking for your own billionaire?

0:13.2

Nope. No, I don't want my own billionaire. I'm going to raise the vast majority of the money.

0:17.0

Race yourself America for what?

0:19.3

King Trump.

0:21.1

I'm Warren AlAldney.

0:22.1

To the Point has you covered for the 2016 campaign.

0:25.2

Find the To-the-Point podcast on KCRW's iTunes page.

0:30.6

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:37.2

I'm not saying people were expecting it to be shit,

0:40.3

but, you know, it was just that guy from Twitter

0:42.3

and me who hadn't made a show for a while,

0:45.3

and like, why would that work?

0:47.4

Irish writer and actress Sharon Horton

0:49.4

and American comedian Rob Delaney met on Twitter.

0:53.2

Then they teamed up to create the British sitcom Catastrophe.

0:56.8

Their expectations were low, but now Amazon has brought their series back for a second season.

1:02.4

And actor Cliff Curtis is a Maori New Zealander who's played a wide range of ethnicities,

1:07.9

Latino, Middle Eastern, African American. Now he stars in two projects where he

1:12.5

plays characters who are Maori. But first on the news banter, the best-laid succession plans of

1:18.4

mice and men, go awry at Disney. Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

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