Uzo Aduba: The Road is Good
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Emmy award-winning performer Uzo Aduba (Orange is the New Black, Mrs. America) joins us on the heels of her leading role on In Treatment. Filmed during the pandemic, Aduba plays clinical psychologist Dr. Brooke Taylor, a character she created in the aftermath of her mother’s passing (5:32). In honor of her, we discuss a formative high school memory (11:36), the power of her name (15:19), the racialized roadblocks she encountered as a young actress (20:52), and September 14th, 2012– the day she quit acting (26:20). As we leave, we sit with her mother’s legacy (30:02) and the true meaning of her name, Uzoamaka (32:53).
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | This is talk easy. I'm Sam Fregoso. Welcome to the show. Oh, Today I'm joined by performer Uzo Aduba. You've likely seen her work in Orange is the |
| 0:48.0 | new black as Suzanne Crazy Eyes Warren or in Mrs America as the late Shirley Chism, the first black woman elected |
| 0:58.3 | to Congress. |
| 0:59.9 | Her performance as Chism landed her an Emmy last year for outstanding supporting |
| 1:05.8 | actress in a limited series. |
| 1:08.3 | On the heels of her latest win comes in treatment, which began on HBO back in 2008. |
| 1:16.2 | In this revival, Uzo plays Dr. Brooke Taylor, a skilled clinical psychologist who, as Uzo has said, knows how to show up for her clients in a way she's not always able to show up for herself. |
| 1:32.0 | Here's a clip from the trailer. |
| 1:35.0 | I am taking care of other people, but there's no one to take care of me. |
| 1:41.0 | Is that the, Adam? Made it very clear how you feel about him. |
| 1:46.0 | Are you seeing him again? |
| 1:48.0 | You grow up in a world of violence. |
| 1:51.0 | I think this is a coping strategy. |
| 1:53.8 | I'm just like a little scared. |
| 1:58.0 | I know I'm not their friend, I'm the help. |
| 2:00.6 | I'm a tool. |
| 2:01.6 | Why do you stay? He matters to me. You made choice it. I made a mistake. |
| 2:08.1 | Everyone's guilty of something, but only some of us pay the price. |
| 2:15.0 | All these people are looking to me to tell them what to do. I don't know what to tell them. |
| 2:17.0 | I don't know what to tell myself. |
| 2:19.0 | That's our time for today. The new season which was somehow remarkably made in the pandemic is now available to stream on HBO. |
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