S E228: Leslie Odom Jr. Interview
In Class with Carr
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4.9 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Leslie Odom Jr. talks about the movie "Harriet" and the art of music.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. days are getting cold. Darkness lies on inspire your dreams. |
| 0:29.0 | While the spotlight shines down on me on your corner. Oh, that's Mr. Mr. |
| 0:43.0 | Drops Tomorrow. |
| 0:44.0 | Tony Award Winning Actor, Singer, Very Handsome Man. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:50.0 | The one and only Leslie Odom Jr. |
| 0:52.0 | Hey! The one and only Leslie Odom Jr. Hey, how you doing? I'm good. I just saw you in this movie Harriet. |
| 0:58.8 | You saw that? I did. I'm not about that life. I'm about supporting black people wherever we are that's who I am you just need to know that I've seen you in them streets to you in New York a lot this is even before Hamilton you just regular person walking down the street I was, I think that's Leslie Odom. Okay, no moving. |
| 1:13.7 | Amazing performance, you played a person that historically, I don't know if he existed, but I know someone |
| 1:19.5 | liked him existed. How did you get the role, why, when he he did exist mr. William still and I got it because my friend Cynthia |
| 1:29.6 | Revo was cast as Harriet Tubman and she you know she was the star of the movie and she |
| 1:34.9 | wanted me to play William still sometimes you sometimes it bees that way yeah |
| 1:39.1 | you get to have friends yeah you did a damn good job too. Empowering role, really strong person, helping people to freedom. And you know, the scene when she came back with 150-11 people and you fell off the chair. |
| 1:53.4 | Okay. Yeah that was good. That was good brother. That was good. |
| 1:56.4 | Also you did a State Farm commercial? |
| 2:00.3 | Nationwide nationwide. |
| 2:01.3 | Sorry. No, I I gotta do some more. |
| 2:03.0 | Yeah, because that... |
| 2:04.0 | It's not resonating. |
| 2:06.0 | No, no, no, no, no. |
| 2:07.0 | No, no. |
| 2:08.0 | No, because the beginning of it, you don't know what it is because you... |
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