Yahya Abdul-Mateen II: Man on Fire, Oakland, Michael Bay, Keanu Reeves

All The Smoke

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Sports, Society & Culture, Basketball

4.7 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II sat down with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson ahead of his Netflix debut in Man on Fire, where he steps into the iconic role made famous by Denzel Washington. Yahya breaks down what it takes to fill those shoes, shares stories about Keanu Reeves, Michael Bay, Lisa Bonet, and gives his take on the future of Hollywood. And when we found out he hooped in high school? You already know we had to go there. Real ones know what to expect from ALL THE SMOKE.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.3	Welcome back to All the Smoke, Day 2 in the Bay.
0:07.7	Shout out to Netflix.
0:09.7	Jack, you've got to be a pretty bad motherfucker to just go by one name.
0:13.5	Shit.
0:14.3	I want to know the meaning behind it as well.
0:16.6	Man, welcome to the show.
0:18.0	One of the most versatile actors in the business, Emmy Award winner.
0:22.6	Welcome to the show, man, Yahya.
0:24.6	Thank you for your time.
0:26.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:28.6	First of all, congratulations and all the success.
0:30.6	What's life like? What's going on right now?
0:32.6	Oh, man, business is great and I'm chilling, man.
0:38.3	My thing is I try to keep everything real nice, even and cool, even when it's loud.
0:43.6	You know what I'm saying?
0:44.8	I try to be the calm in the room.
0:47.3	And that's what I'm doing right now, but I'm good, man.
0:49.8	I got a great show to talk about, you know.
0:51.8	I got another show called Wonder Man, which just came out earlier this year.
0:55.0	We just got re-uped for season two.
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