Director Steve McQueen on Creating ‘Small Axe’

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Larry is joined by Steve McQueen, director of ‘12 Years a Slave,’ to discuss his latest project, ‘Small Axe,’ the Black British experience, and more. Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Steve McQueen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody, welcome back.
0:06.8	This is Larry Wormor, you are listening to Black, the Air.
0:10.1	Merry Christmas, happy New Year's, happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa.
0:13.8	What are you guys celebrating?
0:16.7	Happy to all of it.
0:18.0	Celebrate it all is what I say.
0:19.2	We are just about a week away from Christmas.
0:21.0	Hope everybody in this really tough year, hope everybody is having a good or you know,
0:27.0	a restful holiday season.
0:28.8	This is a fun episode today.
0:31.0	I'm talking to Steve McQueen, Bane Director of 12 Years of Slave, Widows.
0:35.7	He has a new series called Small Acts that is an Amazon Prime right now.
0:41.6	And it's really good.
0:42.6	You guys have to see it.
0:43.6	It's a series of five films and it's so good.
0:46.8	It celebrates Black British culture, which we don't get a lot of, you know, a lot of that
0:51.6	information just feels just missing from the cinematic landscape.
0:55.8	So Steve McQueen, thank God, is there to fill in the blanks.
1:00.4	We had a great conversation.
1:01.4	We talked about a week ago.
1:02.8	So I hope you enjoy that.
1:04.3	And you know, not much to say right now again, you know, we're getting towards the end
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