Opus w/ Moni Odeyepo

Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Tv & Film, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This week, actor and writer Moni Odeyepo (Who All Gon’ Be There?, Peacock) joins James and Jon to cover Opus, written and directed by Mark Anthony Green, starring Ayo Edibiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, Amber Midthunder, Tatanka Means, Young Mazino, Stephanie Suganami, Tamera Tomakili, and Tony Hale. Together, they discuss getting obsessed with a musician, when the film came out, Opus' hair and makeup departments nailing it, thinking of The Bear when someone mentions Beef, bean bag revelations, if dinosaurs gave Jurassic World Rebirth's Rotten Tomatoes score a bump over Opus', and much, much more!

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0:00.0	Like, have you guys been obsessed with the musician?
0:12.6	Like, like, really, like, really obsessed with the...
0:17.3	I mean, not like, no one's ever, like, made me want to, like,
0:20.8	faint or,
0:21.6	or anything like that,
0:22.8	but, like,
0:23.4	um, but yeah, I, I've had pockets of people that, that have taken over my world. Ooh, like who? Um, Mariah Carey, I, I, I collected all of her, albums when I was a kid
0:19.3	um
0:20.6	her CDs is
0:22.7	you know all of her albums when I was a kid.
0:43.4	Her CDs is what I was, you know, and... We know what she meant.
0:45.1	We know how good you are.
0:46.2	Yeah.
0:46.5	No, but I mean her CDs specifically.
0:49.9	Yeah.
0:51.3	Yeah, so it started with her.
0:52.5	Old enough for a CD.
0:54.3	Yeah. Not young enough. Yeah. For an iPod started with her. Old enough for a CD. Yeah.
0:51.6	Not young enough. Yeah. For an iPod and get it. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like it wasn't, you know, it's, and then, and then it kind of started to, like, hop around to other people. But Mariah Care was the first one. I was like, really. Did you ever go to her concert? Like, did you ever go to... I'm trying to...
0:53.2	I never saw her live.
0:54.8	I never saw Mariah. I was like really into it. Did you ever go to her concert? Like, did you ever go to?
1:08.4	I'm trying to, I never saw her live. I never saw Mariah. The first person that I was like super into that I saw live was Christine Aguilera. I was, I was, that was the next person. That's a good one. From Mariah Carey over to. Yeah, and she was a part of the TRL tour. and so I got to see her there. Ah.
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