Great Joys with Ramy Youssef & Mahershala Ali
The A24 Podcast
A24
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Topics covered include: Mecca, the art of walking a fine line, Ramy’s inner Arab negotiator, hot-button issues, mercy, relatable characters in unrelatable worlds, miracles of filmmaking, how Ramy beat Mahershala at one-on-one basketball, fractured attention, pimple management, comfort zones, Mahershala’s dream of directing, the urgency of the daily lunch order on set, killing vampires in Atlanta, and the Sheikh-Ramy fight scene we need to see in Season 4.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, and welcome back to the A24 podcast. |
| 0:09.7 | Rami Yusuf is the multi-hyphenate star and creator of Rami on Hulu, and the first guest |
| 0:14.2 | to make a return appearance on the pod. |
| 0:16.6 | For today's episode, we arranged a Zoom catch-up between Rami and his Season 2 co-star, |
| 0:21.1 | and A24 Treasure, Maritula Ali. |
| 0:23.9 | With their conversation may lack an audio quality, it more than makes up for an heart. |
| 0:27.5 | We hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:30.4 | Well, Maritula Ali for the A24 podcast, along with my brother, from another mother. |
| 0:37.0 | Rami Yusuf here, the A24 podcast, Maritula Ali, who's the best one. |
| 0:44.4 | Rami, I know you're leading the way on this, because you're the... |
| 0:47.6 | Let me ask you something. |
| 0:48.6 | All right, so let me ask you, because I heard you while I was on mute. |
| 0:51.7 | You were looking at my have this Zoom profile photo of... |
| 0:57.8 | I don't even know where it's from, but it's this really beautiful, |
| 1:03.8 | architect, choral, gorgeous thing where the sunlight's kind of coming in, right? |
| 1:07.8 | So it's like dark, and then the sunlight's coming in. |
| 1:10.0 | And it looks like this beautiful place to pray. |
| 1:13.0 | And then you started talking about pilgrimage, and I was like... |
| 1:15.5 | And then I started thinking, oh, have you been to Mecca? |
| 1:18.4 | Have you done a pilgrimage? |
| 1:19.1 | No. |
| 1:20.0 | No. |
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