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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Forest Whitaker Displays His Range as an Actor and Philanthropist | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 32)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Larry WIlmore weighs in on current events (1:00) before Larry sits down with academy award winning actor Forest Whitaker about the challenges of taking on complicated roles like Idi Amin, Desmond Tutu and Zuri in black panther (20:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everybody, welcome back. This is Larry one more. I'm black. I'm the air. Nice to be back. Nice to be black.

0:13.1

Larry makes that pun every time and he thinks that we've never heard it before. No, it's just that I'm really a silly person and I can't stop myself. That's really what it is. When you know me, you know how silly I really am.

0:24.0

But it's nice to be here. Hope you guys are doing well. I think we were off last week. So we're back up with some new podcast coming today.

0:33.0

Forced Whitaker. The force is one of those screen legends that I think is kind of stays under the radar as a screen legend seems to me.

0:42.0

But when you think about his body of work, it's amazing and we really had a really interesting talk about his roles and his approach to acting and some of the

0:52.0

work he's done in Africa is really eye opening is really amazing. So I think you'll enjoy the talk with my old pal, forced Whitaker.

1:00.0

And other than that, just there's so much going on. And here's what I thought I would do this time just to mix up. I got my buddy Tommy Alter and hey, Tommy. Hey, man.

1:11.0

Tommy always makes me laugh. There's always something going on with Tommy. He's always. Tommy somehow on the move. Yes, Tommy's on the move all the time.

1:21.0

And if you follow him on Instagram, he gets like pictures with heads of state, the biggest stars, the coolest NBA players.

1:31.0

How do you keep doing this, Tommy? How do you do that? I just I find myself in weird situations. I don't it's not really on purpose.

1:38.0

So good examples. I was in Atlanta this weekend. Right. And why were you in Atlanta? What was the I went to a Hawks Warriors game with that was the freshers of this pod.

1:47.0

Wait, stop it right there. This is what I mean about Tommy Alter. Yeah, I was at the Hawks Warriors, not just the Hawks game, but Hawks Warriors.

1:54.0

Wait, hold on a second, which is the hottest Hawks game of the year for the Hawks. That is because that is true. That's number one. My father, the number one.

2:03.0

Number two, you go with the intellectual of our time, Malcolm Gladwell, you know, you're just hanging with Malcolm Gladwell.

2:11.0

But how does that happen? But this is the thing. So how are you hanging Malcolm Gladwell?

2:14.0

So my friend and also your friend. Yes, yes. Very.

2:19.0

And we were talking Atlanta is a great Atlanta is one of the great definitely one of the great American cities.

2:24.0

I would argue one of the great international cities. It's amazing food. Yes. A ton of stuff to do a ton of history, the King Museum, all different things like that.

2:32.0

Absolutely. I wanted to go to Atlanta this year. I talked to him about it. I said, because he travels all the time. I mean, he does his podcast or visit his history and he writes and he sort of enjoys going to different cities to write.

2:44.0

And I said, I sort of suggested we should go down to Atlanta and go to a Hawks game. Now, is Malcolm a basketball fan?

2:52.0

Okay. I didn't know that. And so he, he was into it. And then like we kind of both made the calculation like the Hawks are a terrible team.

3:02.0

The second worst team in the NBA right now. They are whether they will admit it or not, they're purposely tanking.

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