Yahya Abdul-Mateen II on Breaking Into Acting, How He Chooses His Roles, and What's Next for Him

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

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4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Bakari is joined by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II to talk about switching from city planning to acting (2:50), working with Regina King on 'Watchmen' (14:19), explaining the Black experience through acting (20:56), and what's coming up for him in 2021 (24:33). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.
0:15.0	Today we have an amazing show with Yaha Abdul Matine the second.
0:19.0	But before I get to him, I want to talk about Majorie, Taylor Green and the so-called Republican
0:23.7	identity crisis happening in Washington DC right now. You know in case you
0:27.8	missed it last week the Q a non-Congresswoman from North Georgia, Major E. Teller
0:32.0	Green was stripped of her committee assignment by the House of
0:34.7	Representatives. Only 11 Republicans agreed with House Democrats that the anti-Semitic 9-11 denying
0:42.0	Parkland shooting denying congresswoman should be
0:44.2	stripped of her committee assignments but perhaps even bigger than the vote was
0:48.5	Green's press conference after she was stripped of her committee assignments.
0:51.7	I want to tell you Republican voters,
0:54.9	support him still.
0:56.5	The party is his.
0:58.0	It doesn't belong to anybody else.
1:00.6	This impeachment trial that's going to happen next week is a circus.
1:04.0	It's a circus that allows media companies to get lots of clicks, lots of views, and sell
1:09.9	ad dollars. And you know what? That's pretty disgusting too. Now this woman is
1:16.1	bad shit crazy, but she's spot on in reminding Republicans that the
1:20.0	people who think the election was stolen and who storm the capital and who live
1:23.8	and die on every life from Donald Trump? That's the face of the Republican Party
1:28.0	now. Republicans don't even have an identity crisis because people like
1:31.8	Mejorie Telegreen and Donald Trump know exactly who the
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