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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

ICYMI - Amandla Stenberg on Humanizing Black Victims of Police Shootings in "The Hate U Give"

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

"The Hate U Give" star Amandla Stenberg discusses the film's underlying call for empathy as it examines racially charged police violence and next-level code-switching. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:02.2

Pfft.

0:03.2

Please welcome, Amanda Stanburg.

0:05.6

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:17.6

Welcome to the show. Thank you.

0:19.6

And congratulations on a stellar film that is touching people,

0:24.2

it's inspiring people.

0:25.4

I mean, I saw people cry in the cinema at the end of the film

0:29.2

because it really is gripping.

0:30.8

For those who haven't seen the trailers or know nothing,

0:32.8

I won't spoil the movie, but I'll tell you the plot.

0:34.4

It's a story of a young girl play by yourself

0:37.8

who is friends with a young boy who gets shot at a police stop,

0:42.8

a story that we're all too familiar with.

0:44.8

And that's just really the beginning of the story.

0:48.4

Before we even get into the story itself, I have to ask,

0:51.6

is there a difficulty that comes with playing a character

0:55.0

or telling a story about something that's happening now all the time?

0:59.0

Yeah, I mean, I think there was kind of a deeper sense of responsibility

1:03.6

with the way that we approached it and knowing that we had to reflect events

1:07.0

that were real.

1:08.4

And so we had to commit ourselves as well as we could to it in order to

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