Malcolm Spellman on the Value of Failure, Being Black in Hollywood, and Working With Marvel

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

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Politics, News

4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Bakari is joined by 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier' executive producer Malcolm Spellman to talk about getting started in Hollywood and why he had to fail for almost a decade before he could succeed (1:40), the limitations that Black people face while working in the film industry (13:18), and working on 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier' (23:21). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Malcolm Spellman Producer: Kaya McMullen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up and welcome to another episode of the Pekare Sellers podcast? I got to tell you that
0:17.3	I'm a little bit refreshed, a little bit tired. We're just getting back from the Bahamas. Shout out to everybody.
0:23.9	In Atlantis at the Cove, treating my wife and I
0:26.8	extremely well.
0:28.5	But we got a special episode today.
0:30.6	It's one of these very real episodes with none other than Malcolm Spellman.
0:35.0	And many of you all know him as the EP and Head Rider for the Falcon and Winter Soldier.
0:40.0	But before we get to him, and before we get to this really dope episode, I just
0:45.0	want to give a special shout out to all the fathers here. You know being called
0:49.4	dad is the greatest title that any of us can possibly ever have. And so shout out to my
0:55.1	father Cleveland Sellers, my brother Cleveland Sellers, the third. Shout out to all
1:01.0	the dads in the world, all of my good friends who are growing up every single day just trying to be good fathers.
1:07.0	For me I always say one of my number one goals in life is just to make sure my children are proud.
1:12.0	I want to protect them, love them, lift them up.
1:15.0	And so, Kai, Sadie, and Stokely is every day. I'm extremely proud to be called your father.
1:21.0	But on this father's day, as we go into this next week, I want you to know
1:25.5	daddy loves you. And now on to a very special, real, kind of gritty episode. I love it with Malcolm Spellman.
1:34.0	I want to welcome
1:41.0	I want to welcome to the Bakari Sellers podcast no other than Malcolm Spellman.
1:45.6	How you doing my brother? I like that backdrop you got right there man.
1:48.1	That's great right? It's what's her name Sheila Bridges is that the name?
1:51.6	Yeah Harlan Pua.
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