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Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

That Time I Interviewed... O-T Fagbenle from “The Handmaid’s Tale”

Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

Women's Empowerment Network

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5.0687 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A classic interview with 'A Handmaid's Tale' actor - O-T Fagbenle.

Transcript

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0:00.0

joining us he plays the husband he is in he is a character that you you want to root for at the

0:06.0

same time i'm like damn dude why you stay with june no why you stay with her we're gonna talk

0:11.2

to him about it let me welcome the one and only o t fagbinle welcome thank you very much all right

0:20.2

you pronounce your name that's like benley you nailed it. All right. You pronounce your name.

0:22.4

It's like Benle.

0:23.1

You nailed it.

0:23.9

Oh, all right.

0:24.4

All right.

0:24.4

So where are you from originally?

0:28.6

Well, my dad's Nigerian and my mom is English and Irish.

0:33.0

Okay.

0:33.7

All right.

0:34.3

Cool.

0:34.9

So OT is initials for... Yeah, you know what? My full name is Ola Tunday, Ola Tudu, Ola, Lauren, Fag Greenlee. And so there's actually four names. Ola Tunday. It normally gets abbreviated to O'Don-Day, but my family just called me O- so that's what I've been known as a kid. All right.

1:29.1

And I'm not mad at you. So when the script came in, right, was Trump, I don't think Trump was president. No. You know, I had read Octavia Butler and I'm like, make America great again. And then I'm watching The Hamas Tale. When you got the script, when you got the script, OT, what were what were your thoughts? Well, you know what? I mean, it was great. The thing is that our director, a woman called Reed Morano, who's a DOP, she had a real vision for the Ham-Made's tale, which you can't see on the script. So the script was great and I'm like, all right, though, Elizabeth Moss is great.

1:30.3

And I know Reid from before, I know she's cool, but I didn't know what she had in mind.

1:34.9

So when you got that confluence of that script,

1:38.3

that visuals, the actors that they got in it,

1:41.0

and then you throw a little Trump, then that's really, I think,

1:46.3

something that really made the show explode like it did.

1:49.7

All right.

1:50.3

I have Elizabeth Moss in my top five actresses today.

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