Luka Kain: Pikachu, Strike A Pose

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🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Luka Kain talks about his breakout role in the film Saturday Church, about a genderqueer teen finding community in the NYC ballroom scene. This episode originally aired on Jan. 12, 2018.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
0:05.4	RWJF is a national philanthropy, working toward a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right.
0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:18.5	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York.
0:24.6	It's NPR's Hour of Puzzles, Word Games, and Trivia.
0:28.1	Ask Me Another.
0:29.2	I'm Jonathan Colton.
0:30.3	Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:35.0	Thank you, Jonathan.
0:37.2	We've got a great show for you.
0:39.9	Four brilliant contestants have already abandoned their New Year's resolutions,
0:43.8	but they are here to play our nerdy games, and one of them will be our big winner.
0:48.1	And our special guest is Breakout star Luca Kane from the LGBT movie Saturday Church.
0:55.1	And get this, he's only 17 years old, which means the only two people he can be jealous of
1:01.2	are Shirley Temple and Wolfgang Mozart.
1:05.5	You know what I was doing when I was 17?
1:08.2	Pretending to be 21.
1:10.9	Our first two contestants waited in line four hours to play a game that lasts four minutes.
1:16.5	Let's meet them.
1:18.0	First up, Nina Glickman on buzzer number one.
1:21.2	You advise students at an education non-profit.
1:25.3	Welcome.
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