LaKeith Stanfield

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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We’re joined by LaKeith Stanfield! He’s reunited with rapper and filmmaker Boots Riley for the new film I Love Bosters. LaKeith chats with us about the movie and what it’s been like working with Boots on another project. He also talks with us about how he got cast on Donald Glover’s Atlanta, how he got into making music, and more.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:23.0	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:25.9	Keith Stanfield is my first guest this week.
0:29.1	Well, I mean, the man's a movie star.
0:32.8	He's been one pretty much since he first started acting in 2013.
0:35.8	He starred in the acclaimed indie drama, short-term 12.
0:39.7	In 2016, he was cast as Darius on Atlanta,
0:45.0	one of the biggest shows of the past decade, probably. Following that, blockbuster after blockbuster,
0:51.1	get out, Judas and the Black Messiah, uncut gems, knives out. And you remember,
0:55.8	sorry to bother you, right? One of the best and most bonkers movies of the last decade.
1:02.0	A film that starts out ostensibly with a story about telemarketing that gets very weird, very fast.
1:05.1	Every minute of that movie is a thrill.
1:11.2	Le Keith had the lead role as Cassius Green, a slacker turned telemarketing superstar.
1:15.5	Hey, young blood, let me give you a tip. Use your white voice.
1:21.2	Man, I got no white voice. Oh, come on, you know what I mean. You have a white voice in there.
1:28.9	You can use it. It's like when you pulled over by the police. Oh, no, I just use my regular voice when that happens.
1:32.2	I just say back the fuck up off the car and don't nobody get out. All right, man, I'm just trying to give you some game.
1:34.8	Sorry to bother you was also the directorial debut for Boots Riley.
1:39.1	Now the two have reunited.
1:41.3	I love boosters tells the story of the Velvet Gang, a group of women in the Bay Area
1:46.2	who are boosters, folks who steal fancy clothes, then resell them to the public for cheap.
1:52.7	But not unlike Sorry to Bother You, I Love Boosters, take some serious twists and turns.
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