Topher Grace on How David Duke Got Duped

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🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Topher Grace discusses playing David Duke in Spike Lee's latest film Blackkklansman about Ron Stallworth, the black cop who infiltrated the KKK. Topher talks about the agony of reading David Duke’s autobiography for the role, why Duke still denies that he was ever fooled by a black man, and how Duke was using phrases like “America First” and “Make America Great Again” long before Trump. Topher shares how director Spike Lee helped him play the king of all racists, what it was like to screen the film to a 10 minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, and how he hopes releasing the movie on the one year anniversary of the violent protests in Charlottesville may help to spur a dialogue about race and hate in America. Plus Topher gets a Twitter shout out from the not so "grand wizard" himself. Spike Lee’s Blackkklansman is now showing in theaters. Check your local listings for show times or visit www.focusfeatures.com/blackkklansman. Follow Topher on twitter at @TopherGrace. Today's podcast is sponsored by Purple Mattress and the Move the Sticks Podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:38.4	For 150 years, the Ku Klux Klan has had the dubious distinction of being the most hateful
1:43.9	and hated club in America.
1:46.5	And given its racist ideology, it's easy to assume that it's a pretty exclusive group,
1:51.7	at least if you're black, or Jewish, or any other minority.
1:55.2	But it turns out that the KKK's vetting process isn't quite as airtight as you might think.
2:01.2	In 1979, Ron Stahlworth, the first black man to join the Colorado Springs PD, also became
2:07.7	the first and as far as anyone knows, only black member of the KKK, when he answered
2:13.0	of all things, a classified ad in the back of his local newspaper.
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