Franklin Leonard and Tananarive Due on Why Hollywood Is Still So White, and What Might Change It
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The founder of the Blacklist joins to discuss the entertainment industry's response to the George Floyd protests, and who seems to actually be getting it right. And horror author and screenwriter Tananarive Due discusses the piece she wrote for Vanity Fair about her childhood experience with protests, what positive change she's seen in Hollywood, and why horror movies can be the perfect way to process the scary things happening in the real world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and Oscar goes to and I can't deny the fact that you like me right now you like me |
| 0:20.8 | There's a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture. I'm Katie Rich the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com and I'm here with our |
| 0:39.9 | digital director Mike Kogan. |
| 0:41.6 | Hey Katie. Our chief critic Richard Lawson. |
| 0:43.9 | Hello. |
| 0:44.5 | And sitting in in our fourth co-host chair, |
| 0:47.4 | we have Franklin Leonard, the, |
| 0:49.5 | I wasn't going to say founder of the blacklist, |
| 0:51.0 | but I feel like I'm going to mess up your title. |
| 0:52.2 | So maybe you should just tell us yourself. I mean, founder of the blacklist but I feel like I'm going to mess up your title so maybe you should just |
| 0:52.8 | tell us yourself. |
| 0:53.8 | I mean founder of the blacklist works it is accurate and succinct so yeah let's go with that. |
| 0:58.8 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:59.8 | Hey Franklin. |
| 1:00.8 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:03.0 | No, it's a good distraction to all today if nothing else. |
| 1:07.0 | Well, we had an entire episode that we had planned including a rewatch of Gosford Park and some |
| 1:11.4 | more Emmy season interviews and we basically scrapped it given |
| 1:14.3 | the news of the world the ongoing protest over the death of George Floyd. So we have Franklin on and then in the back |
| 1:20.8 | half of this episode we're going to share an interview that I did with Tannana Reeve Do, |
| 1:25.2 | the horror expert and screenwriter and author and teacher who wrote a piece for Vanity Fair |
| 1:30.2 | this week about her experience as the child of civil rights activists and |
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