Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

I got a good one for you this week.

My guest is Emmy winning actor, producer, writer, director, and everything else you can possibly

be in Hollywood.

Lena Weith, she is truly one of the brightest young stars in Hollywood.

Lena won her Emmy writing an episode of Master of None.

That's the Azeez Ansari show.

She also starred in the episode entitled Thanksgiving, which is the story of her coming

out as gay to her own family.

She also created and wrote the show The Shy, which has a big audience on Showtime and her

current film is called Queen and Slim.

It's got a lot of people talking.

We'll let her explain the premise of the movie, some of the controversy behind the movie.

You also might know her from Ready Player One, the Steven Spielberg film.

He hand picked her to be in that movie.

And she's going to be starring in Westworld coming up as well.

She's got a lot going on in her life.

Comes from Chicago.

When she was a teenager, she moved to Evanston, Illinois, which is on the precipice of being

a suburb.

It basically is a suburb, but a close-in suburb.

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