Interview: Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and James Cameron and Russell Carpenter (Avatar: The Way of Water)
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Yohana Desta talks to the star of the second Black Panther movie, how she came to understand her character Queen Ramonda through costumes and how she and Letitita Wright stuck together in order to move on without Chadwick Boseman. Then, Katey Rich speaks to James Cameron and Russell Carpenter, the director and cinematographer who both won Oscars for Titanic and reunited for Avatar: The Way of Water, a project that was somehow even more massive.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Ben, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:05.0 | It's such an honor to present this next award. |
| 0:08.0 | And here are the nominees... |
| 0:10.0 | The Oscar goes to... |
| 0:12.0 | And the Oscar goes to... |
| 0:14.0 | And I can't deny the fact that you like me right now! |
| 0:18.0 | You like me! |
| 0:20.0 | On the King of the World! |
| 0:22.0 | There's a mistake. |
| 0:24.0 | Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture. |
| 0:30.0 | I am Katie Rachel. |
| 0:37.0 | And I'm here today with a returning guest and interviewer on Little Gold Ben, our colleague, |
| 0:41.0 | Johanna Desta. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello Johanna. |
| 0:43.0 | Hey Katie, nice to be back. |
| 0:45.0 | So for this interview episode today, you and I talked to people behind two of the biggest movies of 2022, |
| 0:51.0 | as we kick off 2023. |
| 0:53.0 | So first let's hear the conversation you had with Angela Bassett, who sort of needs no introduction. |
| 1:00.0 | Really, she's tremendous in Black Panther, we're kind of forever. |
| 1:04.0 | Even more so than in the first one, this kind of a thing where she was a key player in this ensemble in Black Panther. |
| 1:10.0 | But she steps up into an even bigger role and really emotional one in we're kind of forever. |
| 1:15.0 | And I'm assuming you guys got into that. |
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