You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Dan Bayer's interview with

Gotham and Spirit Award nominee Jonathan Majors for A24's The Last Black Man in San Francisco.

The final frontier of manifest destiny, last edge of the city.

Men two steps further, you'll be drinking that filthy salt water.

But we built these ships, trans these canals.

In the San Francisco, they never knew existed.

Welcome everyone to the next Best Picture Podcast.

We are interviewing Jonathan Majors, co-star of The Last Black Man in San

Francisco. Jonathan, how are you doing today? You know, feeling good. Just tired enough,

just awake enough, you know. Yeah, sure. Well, we are here obviously to talk about the last black man in San Francisco, which, for my

money, one of the best films of the year, even now in November when we're recording this.

It's a beautiful film.

You have a really interesting role to play in it.

But my first question is, how did you become involved in this project?

I know you graduated from Yale School of Drama not that many years ago.

Yeah, I left Yale in 2000.

I graduated at Yale 2016 and went right into the tutelage of a directing

named Gus Van Zandt. And, um, oh wow.

Literally my second, my second semester of graduate school. I happened to, uh, uh, audition

for a role that he and Dustin Last Black were seeking,

and I want it.

And jump, I guess, three years later,

...