Matthew Modine Talks Full Metal Jacket, Stranger Things, Trump

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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On this episode of People's Party, Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with actor, filmmaker, and activist Matthew Modine. This wide-ranging interview begins with his early years, growing up in Utah, being the youngest of seven, living next to a drive-in theater that his father managed, then moving to San Diego where he attended high school while working at his parent's Mexican restaurant. He reflects on what compelled his move to New York at age 17, where he worked as a chef, went to acting school, and met his wife. Matthew also digs into eye opening moments in his life that changed his perspective on US history, and the realization of it's dark past, leading him to note his fears of us falling back towards those times with Trump's "manifest destiny". They also discuss Muhammad Ali's inspiring courage of speaking out during the Vietnam war, working with a young Nicholas Cage in the film 'Birdy', and Matthew's starring in the 80's film 'Vision Quest'. The actor also speaks on the United States and it's failure to fully acknowledge it's atrocities of black people and Native Americans, and breaks down how and when he came to understand the term white privilege.

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0:52.3	Yeah, how you doing Jasmine amazing? How are you I'm fucking awesome because
0:58.5	Today we're gonna have a
1:01.2	Bonafide movie star and I'm a movie buff, but you know what we live in an era where people could be famous just for being famous
1:09.0	So not only is today's guest a movie star, but he's also a master of the craft of acting
1:15.0	Because not every movie star is a master craftman when it come to acting
1:19.6	This man has been working from the 80s to the 90s to now and when it comes to directors
1:25.0	You can't really ask for more
1:27.4	For more inspirational list of directors to have worked with from Stanley Kubrick to Robert Altman to Oliver Stone and Christopher Nolan his career spans almost 40 years
1:38.8	He's been a
1:40.6	major part of some of the most iconic films of all time vision quest birdie full metal jacket Memphis Bell
1:47.8	He's on stranger things
1:49.8	Mm-hmm on my stranger things fans are gonna be very excited we
1:53.6	Weeds to Miss Virginia too. He's also an activist an avid cyclist
2:00.4	Ladies and gentlemen a true Renaissance man Matthew Modine is in the house
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