Actors Roundtable: Chadwick Boseman, Timothée Chalamet, Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen | Close Up

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with The Hollywood Reporter Mine Baptist Steven Galloway and I would like to introduce you to Hugh Jackman Mahara Ally Timothy Salome Richard II scholarship Viggo Mortensen and Chadwick Boseman thank you for joining us thank you very much I would like to start with the simple The question is this a good or a Bad time to be an actor. It is always a good time to act. Yes, good point. Yes always. there and quality work in different areas of film and television, but I'm living in New York right now and just finished Saturday night.

One of the teams told me that there are 59 productions currently in New York and that's a record and I am and there must be a lot everywhere, so whether you're young or up and coming, it seems like there's a lot of quality stuff out there when you decided become an actor and you were afraid that this was a risky profession. maybe you shouldn't do it, my dad thought he was completely crazy for wanting to do this because when I was 12 in 1969 and Neil Armstrong had just landed on the moon, everyone in my ear wanted to be an astronaut, so he said you wanted to.

Being an actor was as ridiculous to people back then as saying you wanted to be an astronaut because there was no precedent where I grew up and I think my father was genuinely concerned that I would spend my life wearing makeup in tights and being homeless. come true or did you grow up in Swaziland, yeah, what was the acting scene there and what makes you go from that to wanting to be an actor in England. I think you know, you know, looking back. I think you have no choice. These things, I know how you feel, but when I look back, you know, the Kodak photographs that I had.

He had a popsicle stick shoe box theater with little cut out figures since he was 7 and then I moved on to glove puppets and string puppets. puppets and ammeter plays and it was that thing where it was a childhood passion, but if that would translate into having a career, you know, people told me how you can be an actor because you look too weird. I have a face like a tombstone, so I said, well, it's done, he's very tall and has a long face, you know? What if you think the altar against you while growing up in South Carolina wasn't even a possibility?

You know, there was no one, my brother was really into the arts, he did musical theater, he danced because he did that, I think I saw it as a possibility, but other than him, no one around me saw that as a viable career, even looking at him. It's not the same as what I'm doing I think you're right it's just made for you to do I think you should only do it if you love it because it's not all the glitz and glamor that people think it is, it's really a manual job you work overtime you sweat you get hurt you are an athlete you are all it takes and you are taking advantage of things that most people don't usually deal with you are dealing with intimate parts of your reality political parts of your reality social parts of your reality with the ones that most people don't have to deal with on a day to day basis race in a way that people don't have to deal with gender in a way that people don't have to deal with on a day to day basis you do it because you love it you don't do it for the reasons people think you know I want to be famous nothing it's that's not what it is this interesting because it's never really articulated with the way we talk about acting, the way we talk about business , we don't really talk about the qualities of the worker within it and how you really only act between the action and the cut as 10% of the target, the rest. it's preparing for: the costumes, the costumes and their elements, the construction of the psychology and the preparation for the piece itself, the work of actually acting, it's such a miniscule part of the experience that you have to love it so much.

I don't want to say it's not great because it's holistically an incredible experience, but there's a real tax within it that you have to be conscious of going into it and saying, "Okay, I love this so much that all these little aspects add up." . to make this a more complete experience, I agree, you know, the sacrifice of time that your family had, you know, you don't see them, you don't see them, you like, you don't really, you just start passing ships for maybe ten months in a year and I think in some ways it's good that people know that because celebrities and storytellers are really elevated and that's why you asked me when I was a kid.

I never hear kids say what you want to do when you grow up. and no one would say that we are famous per se. We could do a better job of helping people understand what it is and kind of, you know, demystify it a little bit so that it's a little bit more clear that you like the work that goes into building these. characters and tell these stories and how difficult it is to do that, you know, you already have something that people really want to go see and walk out of the theater and say, wow, that was a great experience because if he didn't surprise you, you're relatively new to the acting profession.

I'm not sure that's a great question. I was very sorry. He has surprised me a lot since I started. I feel like I'm not a very cynical guy to begin with, but. I've become less cynical, that's a good way, yeah, I feel like even just listening to a rehearsal to talk right now and we were rehearsing to play together in the same space four years ago in an environment that wasn't high budget. at all and It's inspiring, I feel it now. I think of the Green Book. Hopefully, a beautiful boy resonates in a similar way, but the things that people want or want, like accurate reflections, they want a mirror, basically, authenticity, yeah, and I think, in addressing it, like Hugh said, like the demand for content Whether it's Netflix or Hulu or Apple is doing things.

I saw something that's on the original AT&T and they're doing stuff, so there's a lot out there, so she's a young actress. I think your first dream is how can I be myself financially. -enough like that first time you were able to pay your check and you didn't do any other work, you think what is success, yeah, yeah, very often, people like you know that they will talk about how other people see art and say things that you know like one day you'll make it one day one day you know one day and you say wait a minute I paid my bills I love what I do and I feel the same about my working at that moment as I do when my movie makes half a billion dollars.

I think there's a certain fulfillment of faith in doing this because you don't have a stable job, you know, no matter what, no matter how well off you are. doing, you're still trying to figure out what's next and when this job ends, you say, well, what's next and if I know what it could be in six months, what will keep me going and why that? The same faith that you had to have when people said that you were going to be an actor like that one that you were talking about, yes, I think you use it and it is built on a day-to-day basis for every little part of what this is and if you don't have that from the beginning, you don't necessarily have it, you don't have what it takes to do all the intricate moments.

I love listening to you talk about the work and the quality of the business, whether it's in film or theater H like a week, you know. I had a teacher, Lyle Jones, at my drama school and on the first day he said to me: "All of you here know how to act and on your day you can all be brilliant and the next three." years is about the other 90% of the time Wow, I understand a lot of what I was talking about, but it's like you can take it, it's just amazing, everyone's grades, but there will be days when something happens in your private life or it's just It's not gelling or it's just six out of ten okay it's not great it's the day and the day off it's not just about the Superbowl it's the regular season it's the 163 baseball games to practice rights working yeah how much does it cost to doubt Perfectionism gets in my way every year because I'm the oldest person at this table, but my experience has been that a common denominator I've noticed among

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is having low self-esteem on the one hand and high self-esteem.

Ego, on the other hand, I feel like my confidence is very tied to whether or not I'm working or what I'm working on and people always say: you know what you're going to do next and if you don't you have something next. There's something I still think you know is that what you've done before doesn't count, on the one hand you say you know I want this job before you, but at the same time you think well, I don't. I don't feel as worthy as those guys for the job, well, I think generalizing is a tightrope act and yeah, there's all these things, you know.

I guess we want to make sure people understand, yeah, we're actually doing some of what we get paid to perform is the easiest and most fun thing I know as an occupation, when it works you don't have a good overview, you know, you can see the shot later and then it actually wasn't that good. I thought I was doing it, you know, but when it doesn't work it can be depressing, that can be one of the most humiliating and since you're doing it in front of people, when I say it's a good time to act, we base it on what's going on. . around us conflict Beauty disaster chaos Kass is always there you know we try to order we get dressed we brush our teeth we stop at stop signs but in reality the world is completely crazy all the time I think the world is chaotic or do you mean your own interior Life is chaos.

I think I think people are for me anyway and acting is a very intimate thing. You can't make a perfect movie in the same way that you can't really be someone else, but the idea is to take that person's point of view so that you can get as

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as possible to feeling what it's like to look at the world that way and when If you do it you're exposing yourself and when you do it with someone else you know like the green book that if we didn't do that for each other it wouldn't work two guys in a car and a road trip it could be pretty boring you know it doesn't matter how brilliant the dialogue is, you know, working with Marshall on Green Book, we did that before we started.

We did it all the time because we needed to. I think we both understood what you think before we start. I mean, in how we talked to each other, we told each other things about ourselves in our lives, we opened up and said, well, I am. worried about this I don't know if I can do this or how we do it just say express your vulnerability yes you allow yourself to be vulnerable and if someone else does that in return then you are starting to move We saw each other differently well we knew each other about nine months before we started filming and we had this pretty fun moment not knowing where we were, both of us, you know, having this introverted moment at a big lunch with a group of incredible

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. around and we found ourselves hiding in a corner, we talked for a while, but I think that was the initial conversation that I think set the moment for us to meet later and start working, it kind of set the tone for us to be sitting in a table and making time at the table with a script and had connected in a way that felt deeper than how the environment felt, there are a lot of wonderful people there, but you can only connect with people, I don't care how much you appreciate love .

I respect you, it's like two minutes. I met Hugh a few weeks ago and he couldn't have been nicer. You really connected with me for a moment. I walked away like damn. I appreciate that he was almost like Viggo and I, but we need to talk. for 30 minutes and so having that and connecting and then getting into this and getting into a project that we brought to start filming, you had to sit down and share and communicate some of our concerns and fears and move forward. the script in a way that can you tell me one of your fears with the Don Shurley project?

It's so different for me physically and when you're dealing with someone who's not famous who has no presence in the culture and Don Shurley was an accomplished pianist, but no one really knew who he was, no one would know what he looked like, so I got to see a tape about him in which he appeared in this documentary called A little Bohemia and he's there. just in a few moments his voice the pitch was a little higher, it was like up here, you know, and I'm thinking about me being 6 - mmm, he's smaller, shorter, stockier, so it was this negotiation for me and I was worried about it, but it was a negotiation that I couldn't go there with, but I would like to leave it long enough that it wouldn't be a distraction and then the fantastic reality that you find I found as a happy medium for someone of my height Compared to him, probably me.

I'm guessing about 580 or something like that, since you just like to tune, position your tuning fork correctly so it's not a distraction to the audience, so just don't do it so they can really enjoy the story and not get distracted. an option that they have nothing to route him yes you know you never got to meet him no he passed who did you meet Gary Hart? Yes, I did, so Gary is 82 years old, lives in Colorado, and was generous enough. I really mean to invite me there to stay with him, everyone who knew him knows, worked with him, said he's hard to understand, he's mercurial, he's enigmatic, he's hard to define, incredibly smart, so I arrived at the Denver airport and he was there on the sidewalk to pick me up Wow, the trunk of the carIt was open, he was just waiting there by himself and I came out and shook his hand and I mean his campaign people, three of them had called me, he said now when you meet Gary.

It was that kind of advice for that letter. This is what I was a little nervous about because I thought, Are they giving me such specific advice? You know, he shook my hand and his other hand was on my cheek. Wow and for about two or three. Seconds you just looked me in the eyes and wanted to say that this is going to be okay. I know this is uncomfortable. Give me an account. I returned to his house. His wife had had hip surgeries, so they were sleeping and the folding couch was downstairs. I slept in his bed, so I'm sleeping in his bed, he cleared some space and I was putting my jacket, you know, I'm in his closet, he was incredibly open and warm, but he was obviously nervous about playing someone who was going to watch the movie, did you ask him something that was difficult to ask?

We go down to a tower. I mean, those who don't know about the favorite, it's actually the three weeks of his campaign, that at the end of these three weeks he's gone. Politics is always right, so he went from being the guy who was probably going to be the next president to never, you know, being in politics again. It is the worst three weeks of his life and we are bringing it 30 years later, a really very difficult period. I'm glad we're telling the story because I think the pride in his movie or the book came down to a joke and a meme and this man's service and everything up to this monkey business and didn't he ask them to follow him in all these things? but even that I knew was going to be very painful and I asked him questions, but I wanted my main reason for visiting him to be to be able to look him in the eyes and let him know that I respected him and his story.

I took him seriously and I never asked him I guess you're reading my mind yeah because it would feel too and I mean we're friends now I feel like being with my dad and there are things you just don't ask III I also didn't need to ask when you're with someone, you have an idea of ​​who it is without saying where you were that night. You know we were afraid to take on that character. I was afraid because I also knew the story itself. Too many people, I'm not just telling Gary but Donna, moving up to the campaign team is a painful part of their lives.

I think it's an important story to tell, but there's no way to avoid this experience being painful, and so are we. on the right side of that line of telling this story, honestly paying tribute to everyone in the story, not just one character and also personally, I'm sure you feel the same as I did many. Can I achieve this? Kind of scary, right? He is a very different type of character for me by nature and very open. I've been tougher that if you ask me a question, you probably won't be able to shut me up and Gary's very private self, so there were a lot of aspects and turning on equality a little bit tighter that I wasn't one hundred percent sure I could pull off thanks to God, I had a great team, but yes, there were personal fears and also fears for the product itself, this is the reason why people I don't want to be in public life because someone will bring up something you said at one point ago. 15 years and he will act like he is somehow and sum up your life.

Look well, well, one more of these. I'm not going to sit here anymore. He covered all the things that matter: did he ask Reagan about his marriage? No, no, listen. Did he ask? Part of these questions come from rumors exactly about the love of God. AJ, just ask whatever you came to ask or whatever your editor told you to ask. To me this is beneath you before this round started we were talking about self doubt and perfectionism and you talked about how to overcome that and I would like you to say yes to everyone else so I was on the phone with your partner of mine Richard.

Marx, I said you know something about being a perfectionist and he says, I'll stop, I said what he says, yes, I'm going to tell you about that. I said, what do you mean he says, yeah? He used to say the same thing. I had my first number one record. I was 19 years old traveling the world and for the next ten years I used to say that if anyone ever left, I said well you know I'm a bit of a perfectionist so please excuse me, can we just be seated? our hotel room this is Richard I came up with an alternative like what have I done?

That's perfect. I continued. I don't know, nothing is impossible, so he said I don't want to, it's great, of course, he said clearly. I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just insecure and it's better to say a perfectionist, to say I'm already a little insecure about what I'm doing, yeah, and that's not like he said, that's not an excuse for shoddy work, you do everything as soon as you remove what is there. a perfection, the obligation, yes, I mean, it also takes away the idea, which is what you feel when you're just thinking now. I've said yes. Now I have to figure out how to play this character.

Not everything depends on you, right? I mean you. I have to put that aside and realize that there are other actors in the scenes, they usually know it, but there are people who try to help you if you just open your eyes on a set, usually the people who are making a movie wanted to work and want be able to say yes. I worked on that movie and it's pretty cool when you go see a movie, go or see a play, you walk in, you've paid your money, I want it to be right, you know, and that's why the time it takes is the pressure. and when you get to know someone a little bit and you care about how they're doing in the scene and then you pay attention to them as a person, it's like there's a morning, you remember one morning you came in and you hadn't slept, you know you had a new baby and the baby was there visiting and you just um and instead of going home and he's in a weird mood today how are we going to get through this, how am I going to get through this is how he's going to get through this and it's like what's going on, what's going on and you told me once - and I said no, I just don't feel well physically and yeah, that's just what that aroma requires, okay, let's keep working.

Well, maybe we get a changed performance in the edit where it's not the performance you thought you gave for the better. I think this is always the poet of a show. You know you write your poem and I kind of let it go to the wind, it belongs to everyone else now I say that doesn't mean you don't tell the director hey, I had a better take, take two or three was a little better than that one or I remember when you caught it from another angle, there was a moment where I think you kind of have a journey, then you mapped it out before you got to the stage and you remember these experiences that they're talking about and that's what makes it like you would have had an intimate moment with my Herschel Oh with Hugh and you are like now I remember that day as I remember what was happening that day I don't watch the movie I remember I remember the connection we had so If I see a first cut and say, well, you didn't capture it well , you didn't capture what happened and I know you took the photo because you were close enough.

I saved this emotional part for this moment, you've done it all. What do you like, I didn't give it to you in the width, I gave you a little bit in the middle when you came closer I thought oh now I'm going to give it to you, you did all those things so you know what the journey is, so if you don't see it, you have to say something. I think I hope that you've chosen the right team of people around you, you've chosen the right script, the right director, the right producers and that they have good opinions on this and they're going to make it work better so you have to trust that in most of the time I think you know if you're sitting at this table you've had those moments have you ever not had that moment we or where? they've let you down, of course, of course, and how you responded, you just have to move on to the next thing once it's over, you said your piece, they listen, even though they didn't, you have to use that for the next thing you use are those failures because that's what they are and every time you encounter them you move on to the next thing and say well I'm learning from that and now I'm going to do it this way, why did the doctor tell me that at one point? you say you have to protect your performance, you wouldn't want that, but you have to protect your performance, which means that when you feel you trust the people around you, but there are certain things that only you know and if you don't know them. protect those things if then you'll be the one who kicks yourself later if the stunt coordinator is about to shoot to see before they shoot and they don't know what their action is going to be and now You're doing this scene based on stunts instead of acting and now you have to adapt your performance to the acrobatics.

They are going to miss something. This is an art form, but there are also certain skills you learn to protect yourself. to make sure you get the most, you know if you can do it yourself if you do it this time, you know when I skip the chemistry course, yeah, because you were talking about you essentially playing two-handed in yours and in your movie of The Last year you were essentially one hand to two. I'm in the same situation with Melissa McCarthy and can you ever forgive me when you have to be in an intense relationship with someone who is telegraphed or short circuited deep, deep inside?

In my case, short rehearsal time, we meet on a Friday and start filming on a Monday, you mean you and Melissa McCarthy, yeah, so you have to make yourself vulnerable or open up to someone else in a way that's almost like I was. Imagine it as if it were a speed date, we have to go. I'm going to be in love with this person and I've completely exposed myself physically and emotionally to them, so you walk in there willingly and it almost seems like magic in a bottle when it works and you have a connection with someone and you're fascinated by how the actors, if not They have that connection, so they have to deal with each other.

You see, you see a love story of how beautiful they are together, you know they hate it, how do you do it? You come home you come in with you know what you were saying you come in with the best intentions like no one wants to come in and make a dog movie well, if you come in with the best intentions I think it's almost like speed dating again or you come in with intention I'm going to fall in love with this person and you hope it works you can't have beautiful moments or something great happen unless you are willing to make big balls you know you have it that is part of vulnerabilities and it is like taking a risk and especially if it is a relationship that It's very narrow like the one you have in your story, right, you have to be willing to make a fool of yourself, yes, well.

You're absolutely right, who taught you the most about acting? Oh, that's another great question. I'm not from the forum. I think well, I went to a theater high school in New York, so there are several teachers there. I could point out which one would be Harry Schiffman. you know he's a master there you know the importance of the failure we're talking about I feel like I was bad so many times in front of him you get used to it so you have those moments of truth or chaos that are great but you know from the outside as a fan when I was young as a young man Exactly as you know the Dark Knight came out when I was 13 years old.

I tried people with me, you know, I say that all the time, but it's true, I mean Heath Ledger. Joaquin Phoenix Leo Denzel Not me, I made a movie with Lily Rabe her name the actress the daughter of Fae rights exactly she is David's daughter I feel like I learned a lot that's the best thing you're good it's a remarkable dedication to be present in moment and I don't want to sound cliché or anything, but you see the actors walk into the control room and you're like, well, that's not as interesting to me as an audience member if you see an actor outside the room. control like me.

I think if he ran away during the dark night, Phoenix is ​​walking in the master when he's in front of Phil Hoffman or I can think of a number of other things where you're like, "That guy doesn't know what he's doing right now, he's just doing it." Is living". and that's exciting because then he said it's that mirror again where you're learning about humanity or that character or that version of an environment that they're portraying in the movie but then in reverse, like sometimes they see things on the stage where en It's not about realism or naturalism like when you see Denzel Washington on stage and you think he's otherworldly and you're not taking it all in, it's not necessarily one thing, so I think this whole movie has to be naturalistic.

We have to know what is in northern Europe, yes, you know what story you are telling. There's an aesthetic look that we have with two categories of comedy drama mm-hmm underneath, there's all these branches so that an aesthetic can be toned and you have to go. space for the voice of the directors, the writers, the voice of the actors, how did that work in the light of the moon? I'm very curious, that's it for me, that's the closest you would get to making a documentary mmm, you want to feel like it's real, you know other projects.

I don't want that degree of realism like that, you always want to be aware of what movie you're in, you always want to know what play you're in, what story you're telling and thinking and listening, I think. Your compass guides you to what world that is. Hugh, you've made very different films and Sean, how do you do that? I mean, when you're making a musical, how do you find the right tone so that, as much asmaking a drama That's already a great opportunity, but once I said yes, I said, well, I have to talk to Nick Vallelunga immediately, he very generously opened the doors to everything he knew, all the materials he had about his father's recordings. , we both heard this wrong because he talked about this trip about them and Nick also talked about these tapes. about 20 years, right, yes, yes, yes, and it sounds like you probably recorded it a little too and because their father told them everything, this is a great narrator and he told them all these things that happened, he says, but if you're serious .

By doing this Nick, you have to go talk to dr. Lee and you have to get him to corroborate it and if he wants to add changes, he objects to saying something like that and, you know, dr. Lee was particular about certain things and he told Nick first of all everything that Tony is saying here, yes, it happened and then I'll tell you some other things, but I don't want you to tell the story until he's dead, there's a private. man, there's probably good reasons why he didn't want to know first, family first, whatever, I think they're closer artists, friends in New York, they knew about sexuality and other things that maybe his family knew.

I don't know, we really don't know, but he. not just knowing the time yeah like and you we it's easy for us to forget in 2018 you go back to the 50s and 60s that people had a lot to protect you're getting out of the washing machine scare or whenever there are real reasons why the people needed to own their privacy and you could throw all that in the trash and since someone still wants to keep something private as a business and that's what you want, hey, I'm just saying it's salty and small, it's cheating. any questions, make salty so it tastes good without the salt, we will still know the flavors, that's the trick.

I mean, I think the basics will really fall into place soon if we hope to get to dinner at the bar in Pittsburgh. Well, when I was in the army, I know. a guy from Pittsburgh except he called it Pittsburgh but he said all the women there had huge tits, that's absurd. Robert women in Pittsburgh have bigger breasts and they say women in New York will be upset to find out how the lack of privacy changed your life because Timothy and maja Sheila and Chadwick you are relatively new to this and overnight you have become quite famous by singing some water to that guy, it's crazy, it's crazy, like ultimately, there are certain things that you appreciate about your normal life that are different and you're obviously not comfortable, but at the end of the day I have already been very close to my family.

I have always loved my friends very much and that makes you love them more. Do you know what surprised you the most about fame? I what surprised you. The most important thing for me is that I was rehearsing this play The Prodigal Son which was in the same space as the rehearsal. I was rehearsing the play in the second stage. This was four or five years ago. I did the work. It's about a young man coming out of his, you know, light of the limitations of him and whether because the tickets were too expensive at the theater or something, basically no young people saw it, which is fine.

I was happy to be working, but I was scared. I thought: Oh, am I getting into something that's like opera or ballet or? something that's becoming an art form that's not as viable or something and what's been, I mean, you know, my experience is very inspiring or something, I haven't really worked on a commercial film yet besides Interstellar and they are like art. like calling Barney and it was like an arthouse movie, yes, yes, a lot of young people saw it and that gives me a lot of hope because it makes me feel like I'm starting a career in something that is viable and that as an art form is viable and Then Lastly, I grew up in a building called Manhattan Plaza in New York, which is a building for actors and people are grateful to be there all year round and, like I said before, financial self-sufficiency as an actor is a little crazy.

Are we doing anything beyond that? Maybe I regret saying this, but at least for now I'm like this: We sat down for the profile on Fanta Barbara where you told your life story and I wondered how you felt, oh. OMG, suddenly my life story is available and widely read online. Was it difficult for you? Has it ever been difficult for you to do it? I did feel uncomfortable, but no, I didn't disrespect him at all. I felt absolutely respected, but I have been working professionally. for 18 years, so 16 years of overnight success and I've always had some sort of lead support role within a project, but it had kind of flown under the radar, you know?

So, it wasn't something that I was used to and sharing, you know, things that are private about your life, you know, but I understand that that's kind of the approach that I go back to in this work and, on the other hand, I can explore the human condition and growing a lot from each and every one of these characters I go to sleep inspired because I'm thinking about the things I want to be a part of and the people I want to work with and then we're all tribal people looking for those projects that do entertain because they have to, but they have something to say: they attract you for a reason for me, most importantly, honestly, my relationship with this work is not about money, it is 100% about connecting with these stories in these projects and these characters and these lives if the direction is that there are aspects of your life that are no longer yours, then I accept and accept that you just have to find those spaces that are still yours at the end of the day, like there are certain things I know you, you set limits, say well, I'm not going to give that part away hmm and people will get angry sometimes, people say, hey, I supported you and even the rain for three hours waiting to look inside it, but Then I'll wait, you supported me. when I was broke you left no, I already gave you the art mmm I gave you the art you enjoyed the art that's what I gave you this autograph you know I'm willing to give it to you but what I gave you before is what's real and that's why , to me, that's great.

I love you. This is the part I have to keep so I can continue doing the work and I think you should know what it is for you, if any. a character from the movie, the real-life person you'd like to take a road trip with. I'll go with Melissa McCarthy, could you be Socrates? I think it's a good argument, warming up would be the wisest thing to do, honestly, it brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. about Barack Obama, I would love, man, I would love to feel comfortable enough to spend time with him, meet him and talk to him, but that would be something amazing, okay, I swear to God, I'm not piggybacking on him, but that was the response. in my head, but really also to pick his brain about how he feels about everything.

I'm going to be the writer Zora Neale Hurston and she's someone who was erased, you know, as a writer and you know the avant-garde of African American literati at the time when I think I don't know, they felt threatened and did as much as anyone else to repress, yeah, you know, the reason I talked about her recently was because in connection with dr. Read what I think this movie can do like Alice Walker did for her, a lot of people will discover his music, he's an incredible talent and then the jazz fans who relegated him a little bit, Mike reevaluates him, you know, I think this movie does.

That and I've had my road trip with Dr. Don Shurley, I'm still what about you? That's why I would like to do one with her. I have a lot of people, but I think what resonates the most is that you know, I want to do a heavyweight champion on a world tour with Muhammad Ali, something that I don't know, this can be used, but yeah, from the moment I finished To answer the first question, I regret a little something I left out, which is not only great practice because the amount of good quality work, but I really think that for women for Cohen actors mm-hmm it's a whole world new for someone who has been in business for 20 or 25 years.

I can tell you where I started and the conversations were happening, it's like everything has opened up and I think it's incredible and the narrative is that I'm going to become richer, more surprising, more vibrant and if our goal is to understand the world and to the humans in it, please we see stories about everyone you meet and I think that's why it's exciting too, thank you. Thank you all. My name is Richard Lee Grant. I'm Chadwick Boseman. I have to be screaming. You're watching The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter. Actor Round Table Actors Round Toe Actor Round Tea YouTube YouTube