How Lena Waithe Wound Up on *Dear White People*
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Series creator Justin Simien spills all the previously secret details of the second season of the Netflix series, from the high-profile cameos to why no one ever mentions Donald Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to Little Gold Men, the Award Season Podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of Vanity Fair. |
| 0:12.0 | And in New York York we have our digital |
| 0:13.9 | director Mike Hogan. |
| 0:14.8 | Bonjure Katie. On the west coast we have our senior writer Joanna |
| 0:18.4 | Robinson. |
| 0:19.4 | Well I like Katie and dialing in from France with a glass of rosé by his hand I've been told we have our chief critic Richard Lawson |
| 0:27.0 | Bonsieur Mazzamie. You guys are just all trying to make fun of me for never having taken French aren't you I don't |
| 0:33.4 | know I went with u la la I think that translates |
| 0:37.4 | u la la famous French phrase so Richard you have been kind enough to take a |
| 0:42.2 | break from your yachts and beach dates to dial us in from |
| 0:45.8 | can to let us know how that festival is going. It's just started as we're talking. I believe the |
| 0:49.9 | open, the premiere screening was last night. So how are things going over there just in general? |
| 0:54.2 | It's good. |
| 0:54.7 | I mean, there had been some concern |
| 0:56.3 | once the lineup was announced from certainly |
| 0:59.5 | American journalist about the kind of lack of English language films and star power in the main |
| 1:04.4 | competition and so that's just kind of made people be a little bit like us like a |
| 1:09.4 | little bit more thinking on our feet improv as a story about what should be covered and what the big stories |
| 1:14.8 | are, but as ever the world intrudes into this film festival. |
| 1:19.1 | And so there's lots of talk about Me Too and Times Up and Equal Pay and all that stuff which was reflected in statements |
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