Don Cheadle on Over 30 Years of Acting, Producing, and Activism

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Larry is joined by actor Don Cheadle to discuss his come-up as a Black actor in the ’90s (9:18), the electricity of his most recent project, ‘Black Monday’ (32:50), and how celebrities can most effectively use their platforms for activism (43:10). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Don Cheadle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm back everybody. Um, how you doing? Hope you're having sounds
0:10.4	pretty cheery. How you doing? Everybody? How's it going in this
0:14.0	COVID-19? I don't know why my voice went up. But you know what it is? I'm
0:19.5	grateful for you tuning in. Welcome to Black on the Air. I'm Larry
0:22.3	Rwomor. And I honestly do hope you're doing well out there.
0:25.9	God, I woke up today just really worried about this whole COVID thing. But
0:31.8	you know, we march on. We do what we can. Um, really interesting show today.
0:36.5	Talked to my old pal Don Chito. He has a show in
0:39.9	Showtime called Black Monday. And we recorded the conversation actually a
0:43.4	couple of weeks ago where we were going to play it earlier for you but
0:45.7	had some scheduling snaffos. But uh, his second season
0:50.8	came back on June 28th. So when you hear us talking, it was right before
0:54.7	then it was about to drop. But you know, he's pushing the show very excited
0:58.0	about it. We got to have a conversation about a lot of things. But
1:00.2	Don Chito, I mean, you talked about one of the best actors around,
1:04.6	um, for a long time too. He just always says he's always interesting. Always
1:08.0	says solid work. So it was good chance to catch up with Don. But I am
1:12.8	concerned. I am concerned about COVID. I mean, it seemed like things were
1:18.0	getting better and now I don't know what to think. You know, one thing that
1:23.0	I do think right now that I think is clear is, and I know some of you are like
1:30.2	Dullary. We've thought this all along. But honestly, how
1:34.4	horrible of a job President Trump is at just leading the
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