Talk Easy Throwback: Lena Waithe

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Another great throwback from the Talk Easy Vault! Lena Waithe has been making waves in Hollywood since she arrived in 2006 from Chicago — you just didn’t know it. Although a writer at heart, Waithe has also learned how to do just about everything else in this industry. She produced Dear White People (the movie), has a role in Steve Spielberg’s next film, and, oh, yeah, created an upcoming Showtime drama called The Chi, due later this year. Most recently, you've probably seen her breaking barriers (and hearts) as Denise in Aziz Ansari's hit Netflix show, "Master of None". Vying for Emmy consideration this fall, Waithe has done a fair bit of interviews in recent months. Just not one like this.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	It's not. It's not lost on me that I am a descendant of people that survived the middle passage.
0:28.2	It's like this shit that I go through or deal with that people throw at me, it ain't as bad as that. It's not as bad as slavery. It's not as bad as Jim Crow, not as bad as the Civil Rights Movement.
0:39.1	So that's where I come from. That's the bloodline that I'm from.
0:45.0	How can I not walk tall?
0:50.0	Like I have to.
0:56.0	That was Lena Waith.
0:57.0	I'm San Francisco and this is Talk Easy.
1:01.0	Welcome to the show. Oh, Hello everyone welcome to the podcast I am San Francisco so this is talk easy and we're continuing our ongoing series of throwback episodes.
1:37.9	From now until August 25th we will be redistributing some of my favorite conversations that we've had on this
1:46.9	podcast over the past three years. Some of you have maybe heard these before.
1:51.2	Some of you have probably not.
1:54.3	Last week we did author, podcaster, big thinker, Malcolm Gladwell, and this week I wanted
2:02.3	to have on someone a bit different.
2:04.4	When I sat down with Leinaway two years ago,
2:07.2	her career was just on the verge of taking off.
2:11.4	It hadn't quite taken flight. She was on the show Master of None and
2:17.8	the second season had just come out. And in that season was an episode called Thanksgiving in which
2:24.0	Lena managed to tell a fraction of her childhood
2:29.0	through a younger version of her character, Denise, and a fictitious mother played by Angela Bassett.
2:38.2	If you have not seen this episode, it is currently streaming on Netflix.
2:42.2	It is, to me the strongest piece in the two
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