Summer book series: Justin Baldoni
Next Question with Katie Couric
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🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Justin Baldoni is a producer, director and actor who is probably best known for his long-running character on “Jane the Virgin.” Across the show’s five seasons, Justin played Rafael Solano, the sensitive, reformed playboy who fell in love with the titular Jane, a virgin. But the actor, whose acting work tends to embody a certain type of shirtless machismo masculinity, is on a new mission to help change the way men — and society — think about masculinity. It’s an idea he first explored on social media, and then in a Ted Talk in 2017, and then in a web series and now in a memoir-ish book called “Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity.” On this episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie and Justin discuss the often toxic grip masculinity has on our society and what Justin thinks we can all do to change that. They also talk about Justin’s personal exploration — as a son, husband and father — of what it means to be a man. Find out more about “Man Enough” and where you can buy your copy at HarperCollins.
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| 1:26.3 | Hi everyone I'm Katie Curric and this is next question. Justin Baldoni is a |
| 1:37.8 | producer, director and actor who is probably best known for his long running |
| 1:42.7 | character on Jane the Virgin. On the show's five seasons Justin played Rafael |
| 1:48.3 | Solano, the sensitive reform playboy who fell in love with the titular |
| 1:53.5 | Jane of Virgin. Jane this is this is hard. We're doing everything backwards. We |
| 1:59.7 | have a baby and then we're going on our first date. But the actor whose roles |
| 2:05.2 | literally embodied a certain type of shirtless machismo masculinity is on a new |
| 2:11.2 | mission to help change the way men and society think about masculinity. This idea |
| 2:18.4 | started out as a TED Talk back in 2017 called Why I'm Done Being Man Enough. I'm |
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