the things that needed to be done. it had to be done to the best of my ability. so that the world can really connect with him on a different level. plus, my conversation with the amazing angela bass it on wakanda forever, and how the cast pulled together after the death of chadwick boseman. we all have such a deep love and respect for chadwick. we gathered together before we even began to shoot the frame, to remember him, recall his brilliance his love and his tenacity. we begin tonight with a victory for american democracy. although the fight is far from over. in the midterm elections, voters all across the country rejected donald trump s slate of election denying candidates. giving some hope that republicans will not succeed if they make a second attempt to hijack a presidential election. i recently had a chance to talk about are in danger democracy with ken burns, for more than
because it brings me to tears even thinking about this. and where we have come, and i m just so excited to be a part of it. listen, i have to tell you, i had a hard time reading through the script, keeping it real, bah there s something about emmett till s story that does make me cry, because it was the way you portrayed it really is what brought it home. he was so joyful, and you portrayed him as such a fun, happy boy. he reminded me of my kids. yes. how did you approach doing a story that is so tragic? what was your approach to it, and what did you know about emmett till going into your audition? yeah, so as far as information wise, like, i didn t know everything. i didn t know in such detail. you know, i really only knew the tragic event that happened to him. and that was kind of told to me as a, you know, a cautionary
banner. i m sure he didn t. here s the photo of him. hello. i mean, and i don t know which is sort of richer, that old american accent where everybody talk like this, so that s part of it, but you re right. it is the denial of reality that you can see. to me, it s the other thing that is resonant between that era and this one. if you had like put, you know, henry ford or lindbergh on tv at that time, they would have denied absolutely that they were pro-nazi government. but it s like the denial of reality that you can see and the determination to sedition. it feels so parallel to today. and we talk ourselves into this idea that there s something magic about, like, facebook or social media which has allowed people to create an alternate reality where the facts don t count and you can deny reality and everybody gets to live in their own bubble. you know what, sorry. normal lundin in february 1941
carry it. it s exhilarating. and you know, that is one of the most beautiful things about the first film and what emerged from it, just watching those of you who are in the film interact with each other. you were clearly a family. which was one of the most beautiful things about it. yes, what you just said is the next day i will talk to you about, this is a genre, a sort of theme of empowerment of women. and the women in wakanda are the warriors, the women are the heart and soul of the kingdom. and so, i m just excited to see what is the evolution of the women of wakanda, what are we gonna see from them in this film? well, the loss of four is there. we need it we meet it head on in the beginning. and the women, she has to step in as mother in wake of the great loss of her brother. she has to step up to protect and secure the nation in the
charged, not only were trying to overthrow the government by force, all a january 6th, but being hooked up with the hitler government, why they did it. so, it s about sedition. which were confronting now. it s about authoritarianism in fascism in the united states, which we are confronting now. i will tell you, the other piece of it, which i also feel like you and i are of the same mind about, is that it s about there being really, really, really terrible members of congress. you know demean? we think that we re not as bad as they get, and there couldn t be a worse bunch. but like, ernest the podcast opens with him dying in a plane crash. in a very mysterious plane crash that stays mysterious. and what emerges is that he s involved in a plot with a made from hitler s government. and that s where we left the story of him at the beginning of the podcast. but as we head into this next episode that s gonna drop on monday, you get to meet ernest london s widow.