Episode 58 - Lena Waithe
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2017
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Lena Waithe has been making waves in Hollywood since she arrived in 2006 from Chicago — you just didn’t know it. Although a writer at heart, Waithe has also learned how to do just about everything else in this industry. She produced Dear White People (the movie), has a role in Steve Spielberg’s next film, and, oh, yeah, created an upcoming Showtime drama called The Chi, due later this year. Most recently, you've probably seen her breaking barriers (and hearts) as Denise in Aziz Ansari's hit Netflix show, "Master of None". Vying for Emmy consideration this fall, Waithe has done a fair bit of interviews in recent months. Just not one like this. ------------------------------------------------- Music for the show is by Dylan Peck. Original illustrations by Krishna Shenoi: www.krishnabalashenoi.com/. Learn more about Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso at www.talkeasypod.com
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. I'm David Remnickin each week on the New Yorker radio hour. |
| 0:12.8 | My colleagues and I unpack what's happening in a very complicated world. |
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| 0:31.6 | To get the context behind events in the news, listen to the New Yorker |
| 0:35.3 | radio hour, wherever you get your podcast. It's not lost on me that I am a descendant of people that survived the middle passage. |
| 0:48.0 | It's like this shit that I go through or deal with or that people throw at me, it ain't as bad as that. |
| 0:56.9 | It's not as bad as slavery. |
| 0:59.5 | It's not as bad as Jim Crow. |
| 1:01.6 | Not as bad as the Civil rights movement. |
| 1:04.0 | So that's where I come from. |
| 1:06.0 | That's the bloodline that I'm from. |
| 1:10.0 | How can I not walk tall? Like I have to. |
| 1:18.0 | That was Lita Waith. I Sambergoso. This is Talk Easy. Welcome to the show. Leadaway has. Lita Wake has been making waves in Hollywood since she arrived in 2006 from Chicago. |
| 1:50.7 | You just didn't know it. |
| 1:52.3 | There's a conventional trajectory for those who move to |
| 1:54.8 | LA to enter the entertainment industry. Upon arrival, grand aspirations are |
| 2:00.0 | often quickly dashed. Hopes and dreams put on hold. |
| 2:04.3 | If you're lucky and disciplined, like Lina, |
| 2:07.2 | you take odd jobs around town, |
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