INTERVIEW: R.T. Thorne & Danielle Deadwyler On Black Storytelling, Independence, '40 Acres' Film + More
The Breakfast Club
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 14.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Today on The Breakfast Club, R.T. Thorne & Danielle Deadwyler On Black Storytelling, Independence, '40 Acres' Film. Listen For More!
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| 0:06.4 | I'm Marcus Grant. |
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| 0:55.4 | Hold on every day I wake up. The Breakfast Club. You're all finished or y'all's done? Morning, everybody is DJ NV. Jess Hilary. Shalamey and the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lawlerosa is here as well. We got some special guests in the building. Yes, indeed. We have Danielle Deadweiler. |
| 0:55.7 | Welcome. |
| 0:56.5 | Good morning. |
| 0:57.6 | And we have R.T. Thorne. |
| 0:58.1 | Welcome, brother. |
| 0:58.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:59.9 | How are you feeling this morning? |
| 1:08.6 | How are y'all both feeling this morning? Beautiful. Really great. Yeah, man. We're happy to be together. Yeah. You know, I know y'all here to talk about 48, but I got to tell you, phenomenal job until. |
| 1:12.1 | Yes, phenomenal job until, you know, I always wondered about that role because it tells one of history's most painful stories. |
| 1:18.7 | How did you prepare emotionally for that role? |
| 1:23.5 | The way I prepare for anything, it's rigorous research. |
| 1:35.7 | I just grew up in Atlanta, and so the civil rights community in Atlanta has reared me. |
| 1:40.0 | I did volunteerism with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. |
| 1:48.1 | As a kid, went to Cascade United Methodist Church, which Dr. Reverend Lowry, who partnered with Dr. Martin Luther King during that, you know, pivotal time, you know, those are people who were critical in |
| 1:53.0 | defining my life and understanding of society and community. And so all of that kind of, like, |
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