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on with the show. This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. And today my guests are Malcolm and John David Washington. The brothers collaborated on the late August Wilson's The Piano Lesson for the

screen on Netflix. It's the fourth play in

Wilson's American Century Cycle, a series of 10 plays that captures the Black American

experience through every decade of the 20th century. Malcolm serves as the director, and John David

stars as the brash, impulsive, and fast-talking boy Willie, who wants to sell

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