Norm Lewis on "Da 5 Bloods," Broadway and more!

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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FANTI Podcast hosts Jarrett Hill and Tre'vell Anderson are taking over Bullseye this week! First up, we have Jarrett's interview with Norm Lewis. The Broadway veteran and Tony-award winning actor has appeared in hit shows like Scandal and was the first African American actor to step into the lead role in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. He appears in the new Spike Lee film Da 5 Bloods about a group of lifelong friends and Vietnam vets returning to the country after decades to fulfill a pact. Norm chats with us about creating a realistic portrayal of the impact of PTSD on Black war vets, his work on Broadway and how stage actors are finding new ways to channel their creativity during quarantine. Plus, he talks to us about how a random bar singing contest gave him his start in the creative arts. All that and more on Bullseye!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.5	Coming to you from our homes, it's Bullseye, I'm Trevelle Anderson.
0:24.3	And I'm Jared Hill.
0:25.8	We are co-hosts of a Maximum Fun Show called The Antire.
0:29.9	Yes, that is a show.
0:30.9	And it's spelled, I love to say, F-A-N-T-I.
0:34.8	It's a show all about kind of those problematic phase.
0:37.9	We love to have those complex and complicated conversations about the gray areas in our lives.
0:43.3	But today on Bullseye, Jared, you're interviewing Norm Lewis.
0:47.4	How was that?
0:48.4	He was great.
0:49.4	He's an actor and Broadway veteran and he's nominated for Tony for playing Porgy and Porgy
0:53.1	and Best.
0:54.1	He was also the first black man to play the role on Broadway of Phantom in Phantom of
0:58.5	the Opera.
0:59.5	And now he's doing some of everything.
1:01.8	Yeah, I think I first kind of figured out who he was through scandal.
1:06.0	He played Senator Edison Davis, who Kerry Washington's character was dating.
1:11.3	Absolutely.
1:12.3	And now he is in Spike Lee's brand new movie The Five Blood, which is on Netflix.
1:16.6	It's a movie about four black Vietnam War veterans and they're going back to Vietnam.
1:21.7	It's kind of a buddy movie and it gets really complicated.
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