Malcolm Washington
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151 appearances
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2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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Yeah. John David, the older you get, the more and more you sound like your dad. Do you guys get confused at all in listening, like on the phone or no?
Yes. I used to call the house. I used to call the house. And, of course, you have that thing, you know, when you're 16, 17, maybe staying out a little late or something or the report card came in and it wasn't perfect. And you call the house and you're like, oh, I hope my sister picks up. I hope my brother picks up. And John David would pick up, and he would sound just like my dad. Hello?
Oh, my goodness. I would stand straight up. Where the hell was I? Dang. I guess I can't deny it. It's always been like that.
Yeah. Do you think you'll adapt any more of August Wilson's plays?
You know what? I think that there's a really wonderful thing happening now where so far there's three films. There's been three different filmmakers and three different voices that have come to them. And each of the films kind of reflect the voice of the filmmaker so far. Like My Dad with Fences, Mr. Wolf with, you know, he's an incredible theater director.
And I think that you can see that growing. That talent at work in Ma Rainey, my voice is different from theirs. I think you see that in Piano Lesson.
So I hope that for the rest of them, they continue to get varied voices from different backgrounds and different kind of points of view and let this whole thing be a much larger kind of project where you look back and it's this tapestry of Black artists working this time, connecting to this seminal texts.
Malcolm Washington and John David Washington, this was such a pleasure to talk with both of you. And thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you for having me. Yeah, great conversation. I appreciate it.
John David and Malcolm Washington's new film is The Piano Lesson. Their father, Denzel Washington, is starring in his own film, the much-anticipated blockbuster Gladiator II, which is expected to battle at the box office with another big studio film, Wicked. Cynthia Erivo and Ariane de Grande star in Wicked, and our film critic Justin Chang has seen both movies. Here's his take.
Justin Chang is a film critic for The New Yorker. He reviewed Wicked and Gladiator 2. Coming up, Selena Gomez, who stars in the new film Amelia Perez. I'm Tanya Mosley, and this is Fresh Air Weekend. This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. And I recently had the chance to check out the movie Amelia Perez, the new Spanish-language musical that stars my guest today, Selena Gomez.
The film is centered on a lawyer named Rita, played by Zoe Saldana, who is kidnapped and tasked with helping a ruthless Mexican cartel leader secretly undergo gender-affirming surgery to begin a new life as Amelia Perez. Selena Gomez plays Jessie Del Monte, the wife of the cartel leader, who knows nothing about her husband's transition and is led to believe that Emilia Perez is a distant cousin.
The film is almost entirely in Spanish, and Gomez, who grew up speaking it but lost fluency, took lessons to prepare for the role. Here she is singing a stirring performance of Bienvenida, which means welcome.
That's Selena Gomez singing in the new Netflix movie musical Amelia Perez. As an ensemble, Gomez, along with Zoe Saldana and Carla Sofia Gascon, who portrays both Amelia Perez and the cartel leader before she transitions, won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for Best Actress. Selena Gomez is an actor, singer, and the founder of the successful cosmetic line Rare Beauty.
She began acting in 2002 at 10 years old on the television series Barney and Friends. She went on to star in several Disney shows before her breakout role in the series The Wizards of Waverly Place. As a musician, she's had 16 consecutive top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, the longest active run of any artist, and she's the most followed woman on Instagram.
We talked about some of her struggles with such a high level of fame and her diagnosis of lupus and bipolar disorder. Gomez was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in the mystery comedy series Only Murders in the Building alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short. Selena Gomez, welcome to Fresh Air.
I was wondering, you spent, was it nearly half a year, training, preparing for this role, learning Spanish. You actually grew up speaking Spanish until something happened. It took a turn when you weren't speaking it anymore.
Do you feel more fluent in it now?
Right, because even though you weren't speaking it, did you feel like you could understand it when you heard other folks speak it? Completely.
Mm-hmm. Let's talk a little bit about the themes in the movie. She's looking for freedom because she's married to this very brutal drug kingpin. And so all the things that go along with that life. She has two children by him. It's not explicitly said, but it seems as if maybe she got married when she was very young to him. Yeah.
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