Widows ft. Ayo Edebiri & Akilah Hughes

Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Comedy, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 106 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week, we are joined by comedians Akilah Hughes and Ayo Edebiri to discuss the newly released heist movie, Widows, directed by Steve McQueen and starring Viola Davis. We talk about the heist movie genre, the audience vs critical response to this film, and potential Oscar nominations. We also get into Viola Davis's history of being shafted out of awards, Daniel Kaluuya's acting chops, how much screen time was given to the men in Widows, and the importance of Chicago as the backdrop to the film. FOLLOW BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD]: https://twitter.com/blackmenpodcast https://www.instagram.com/blackmenpodcast BUY BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD] MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/black-men-can-t-jump-in-hollywood SUPPORT BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD] ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/BMCJ BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD] IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/black-men-cant-jump-in-hollywood Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/black-men-cant-jump-in-hollywood/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Forever. Do you all enjoy this movie?
0:13.0	Yeah.
0:14.0	Oh yeah, I love it.
0:15.0	I guess.
0:17.0	If they're like cool, like if the idea is that it's cool,
0:21.0	I have trouble with the like heavy serious
0:24.9	what like set it off you don't like that one I will set it off is a great
0:30.7	movie right what I mean is I have trouble watching if it's like, if I get very anxious.
0:36.4	Like, you know, like, Oceans is like,
0:38.6	Bataddu beep.
0:39.6	Oceans is awesome.
0:41.3	Yeah, and I'm like, yeah, this is great.
0:43.8	But then...
0:44.8	Oh, it's cool too because it's like, it's like sure, I guess we need a hacker and a person who can
0:49.8	contort their body, you know?
0:52.1	It's like silly.
0:53.0	There's like a, yeah.
0:54.0	I love that.
0:55.0	But then the second it's like,
0:56.0	we could all die.
0:58.0	I'm like, oh no.
0:59.0	And it's very interesting and uncomfortable.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood], and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood] and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.