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I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.

Next up on the show, actor Winston Duke, being interviewed by our friend and correspondent,

Garrett Hill. Duke was born in Trinidad, in Tobago, moved to Brooklyn when he was 9.

He studied acting at Yale. In his early 20s, he worked mainly in TV. He didn't break into movies

until he was 30, but he started with a heck of a movie. He played Umbaco in 2018's Black Panther.

We have watched and listened from the mountains. We have watched with disgust as your technological

advisements have been overseen by child. Who scoffs at tradition? I know you want to hand

a knife on all my two displays. Who could not keep his own father safe?

He followed that up with an appearance in Avengers Infinity War, then with a starring role in Jordan

Peel's Us. When you see Duke in person, it's not hard to imagine him in a superhero film.

He is a big guy, 6'5", and solidly built. He's already shooting the sequel to Black Panther right

now. Last year, though, he starred in a very different movie, Nine Days, written and directed by

Edson Oda. In nine days, Winston Duke plays Will. Will lives in a house in the middle of an

unearthly desert. His job is to interview souls who want the chance to inhabit a living person's

body. One of the candidates is named Emma. She's played by Zazie Beats. Emma isn't really like the

others. She's curious, free-spirited, and she often gets will to think about his own existence.

In this clip, she interrupts him while he's watching TV to ask a few questions.

All right. Will? What's it like? What? Be alive? Maybe we'll find out.

Winston Duke, welcome to Bullseye. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. I don't normally

start off at an interview this way, but I just got done watching Nine Days. The question I wanted

to ask you first was, why did you become an actor? Why did I become an actor? There's a lot of

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