INTERVIEW: The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks w/ Ahmed Best and Dylan Marron

Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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It's a special, off-format episode in solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA strike! This week, Jon, Jerah, and James interview Ahmed Best and Dylan Marron about their new podcast, The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks. Together, everyone gets into the vitriolic backlash to Jar Jar in The Phantom Menace, what the response to Jar Jar led to for Black actors in performance capture film making, and what brought Ahmed and Dylan together to make the podcast. Find the show below! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/black-men-cant-jump-in-hollywood/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	I feel like we should still do our a cold open just to keep it somewhat okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's a cold open. It's a cold open. It's a code open to be topical where we're like,
0:15.0	screw the producers.
0:17.0	Yeah.
0:18.0	Give me!
0:19.0	I mean, yeah.
0:21.0	Yeah.
0:22.0	We're gonna start with that line.
0:24.0	That line and the money.
0:26.0	Show me the money.
0:29.0	Show me the money that I'm not quoting any...
0:32.0	Yeah, exactly. Can we say that out of context yeah
0:35.0	you would like to be shown the money yes no that was written by Cameron
0:42.1	Crow a number of the WGA.
0:45.0	So since we can't technically say it, just give us the money.
0:50.0	Yeah. You know, you get with us going, baby.
0:54.4	Oh God.
0:57.2	Yeah, we have been, you know, as, as, uh, as our listeners should know, we have been on hiatus because of the strike
1:07.4	What stag had had joined a couple weeks ago now of course we've also been on strike for WJA for quite some time,
1:18.1	which has allowed me to have some of the highest credit card limit I had.
1:25.0	Oh, let's go.
1:27.0	Let's go.
1:28.0	You know, it's funny, it's like, I'm doing a thing that I know most
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