Interview With "Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play." Director/Writer Jeremy O. Harris

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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"Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play." had its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival just a few days ago and is now streaming on HBO Max. Tony Award-nominee Jeremy O. Harris has taken his acclaimed play "Slave Play" and translated it to the screen in a highly unique way as a deconstruction and commentary on the play itself, making his feature directorial debut in the process. He was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about the production behind his documentary, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on HBO Max. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is Cody Derrick's interview with the director and writer for Slate Play.
0:08.5	Not a movie, but play Jeremy O'Harris.
0:11.7	Oh, Philip, this is, this is beautiful.
0:16.2	This is so beautiful.
0:18.1	What's it called?
0:22.6	I don't know. It's just come to me.
0:24.6	Uh-huh.
0:25.6	Please are ready to do that you wrong.
0:29.6	Oh!
0:30.6	Your mere presence is biological warfare.
0:38.3	Am I even supposed to be talking?
0:43.3	I don't want to hear that white people are the fucking play on
0:50.3	because you're talking about right now. What do you think this documentary is about?
0:57.0	Slave Play Play.
1:00.0	Slave Play was recently nominated for a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards.
1:06.0	I'm making this thing that's in part about slave play, but also in whole about me.
1:10.0	Over the next few hours, things are flowing to be hard.
1:13.9	I'm an actor, okay?
1:15.6	I'm not white.
1:17.0	I wanted to invite us to truly imagine
1:20.5	all of the way slavery still lives with us.
1:23.1	Philip!
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