Malcolm Washington
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151 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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Thank you for having us. Hello. Yeah, thank you. That was quite an introduction. I was like, whoa.
Yeah, I think it's really, really, really important for people to learn their history, both ancestral and just culturally. Know where you come from and acknowledge it. Because we're living in a time where... People are trying to rewrite history or erase people from history and their contributions.
So it's kind of incumbent upon all of us to reclaim our stories, you know, and proclaim them and declare them who we are as a people, who we are as a culture and identity. All these things are super urgent to reclaim.
Yeah, it was intimidating, but it was also very exciting. The first step was putting this in a context, a historical context, understanding the moment that the play was written in, the moment that it's speaking to, that it's set in. It was about learning...
as much as I could about August Wilson, his considerations as a writer, who he was as a man, where he's from, what he stood on, his belief system. Understand all these things about him and his intentions so that you can kind of pass it through the prism of yourself and bring your voice to it, but always trying to serve this kind of bigger thing.
But the truth is, really, it was a combination. Yeah, so they had different stories on it. They got different stories, yeah.
Actually, no. No, I'm named after, he's a cousin of mine, but our dynamic and age, he's like an uncle. My cousin Malcolm from Eden, North Carolina.
Yeah.
Don't leave John David Crowe out. Right. That's right.
I love LA so much. I think LA is just an incredible city. There's so many amazing cultures that come together there. It's a place that's both a physical place and metaphysical in that when people think about it, there's an idea of what LA is, and then there's kind of a lived experience of what LA is. I like that it operates on a couple different fronts. I think that it...
functions kind of like how Pittsburgh functions in, in our story, the piano lesson where it's a, it's a place, especially for black people. It's a place where, um, in the great migration, so many black people came in search of opportunity to build a new life, to build themselves up.
So it's a, it's a place built off of the, not only the hopes, but the labor of dreams, you know, like somebody had to build that place. Um, and I, I think that it lives in, it's, it's lives in that, you know,
Absolutely. You know, I grew up with such a strong consciousness. And you got to remember, like, I grew up. in the era of my dad, having played Malcolm X, you know, so I identify with Malcolm X as a figure. I identify with that part of our story.
And growing up in LA in the 90s, post LA uprising, you know, where black people have a voice, they're fighting for something, they're believing in something, they're saying something. I connected to that so much. So that—it's like how Boy Willie says, you know, I was born in a time of fire. I feel that, too.
You know, that resonates with me from both the creative artistic movements that were happening at the time, the political movements that were happening at the time, of people declaring themselves and who they are at the time. And so all of those things live in me. And I'm happy that my parents had such a pride in our culture, have such a respect for it, and instilled that in us.
I did visit. I visited for an afternoon.
It was so dope. It was so dope. I'm a big Chris Nolan fan, you know, and our generation of film goers, he's like, you know, one of those guys. We came, you know, from following Memento, like all of them. I watch all of his films. Um, and know them, know them well. And he's has, he creates worlds, you know? So when you visit his set, it feels like you're in his world.
Like everything just looks like, like if, if they weren't shooting there and you opened your eyes there and you found yourself there, you'd be like, this feels like a Christopher Nolan movie. It just is just, you know, dripping in his, um, personality. It feels like, and his aesthetic. So it was really exciting to go. and see my brother at work.
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