Lena Waithe
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by Lily Padman. And today we have Lena Waithe. Oh, I love Lena Waithe.
How does Lena Waithe describe her childhood influences?
She's an actor, a producer, and a screenwriter. She created The Shy. She was on Master of None. We loved that show. Yes. Queen and Slim, Boomerang, Them. This is the final season of The Chi, now streaming on Paramount+. You know, Lena, you're going to really fall in love with her if you've never heard her chat. She's just as sweet and wonderful as it gets. That's right. Yeah. Please enjoy Lena Waithe. He's an object's man.
Bye. Bye. Holy options. No, no. You were great. Were you offered enough options? Because look how many I have. I know. That's how I usually am.
That's how I usually am.
Oh, because you brought her a cream top and she was like, I'm not fucking with that much dairy.
I don't drink coffee. You don't drink coffee? What about tea? Sometimes.
Is it caffeine in general you don't get down with? I don't know if I need any kind of caffeine. He's already like, you're talking to the wrong guy.
Caffeine, caffeine, caffeine, caffeine.
Well, he doesn't need it, but he drinks it.
I can't do it. Yeah, I don't want to be dependent.
It's fun. It's something to look forward to. Do you identify at all with the many, many things that come across your Instagram about ADHD?
Because for me, I'm like, ooh, yeah. I don't have ADHD. It's interesting, the person who I share my life with, she says... She's already on here, so I don't know what to tell you. I like to watch my podcast. I watch y'all as well. I'm watching a podcast, like watching on my phone, and I'm like watching a Kim Burns documentary at the same time. It's like I'm doing that. And she's just like, how? How are you able to do this and follow what's happening here in this conversation and listen to this documentary? I don't know. It's the thing.
My question is, do you think you are consuming both at like what percentage?
That's a good question.
Because, you know, they've debunked the myth of multitasking, right? Like there's been enormous studies done where they measure the time spent and then they have proven that if you had just done one at a time and then the next, like this is already kind of known. Okay. But I'm not saying that's the case here. I'm just wondering what percentage you think you're...
You know, the truth is, here's the thing. I will sometimes say, okay, put the phone down. Let me focus on this. I think it's really about not just attention span, which we all have to work at expanding. We have to actively do that. But I think that it's also about giving something your undivided attention.
That could almost be your rating system. Like if you had a public platform where you rated things, it would be like, what thing did you shut down all things for? So this season, what show? You were like, you know what? We're putting this over here.
The thing that I'm like really locked in is Half Man. Half Man.
What one is that?
That's the gentleman who did Baby Reindeer. Oh, yeah. This is his sophomore effort. HBO, it just came out. Just came out. There's two episodes up right now. I think both are pretty exquisite. Exquisite. Nice word.
Yes.
You know, baby reindeer locked us all in in a real way. But I think, and I got to tell him this, I was really grateful to be able to do that at the Globes. I stopped him and I said, you made me want to be a more vulnerable artist.
Oh, that's a lovely compliment. No, when he goes into the whole thing about he's in that fucked up crazy zone of drugs and fucking and that whole, I was like, oh, wow, man, I'm so impressed he's going here as like an addict.
What challenges did Lena face in her early career?
I was like, oh, yes, definitely.
And it's true. Yeah. Well, we're all addicted to something. Our vices sometimes look different. And some are more socially acceptable than others. You know, it's like cheating is a vice. Being unfaithful, I think, can be a vice.
We'd say that's low acceptance, right? Yeah, we would agree. Correct. Universally reviled, universally practiced. Estelle. Esther. Esther Perel. Esther Perel. I fucked it up on both sides.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–0:10
2
How does Lena Waithe describe her childhood influences?
0:10–3:38
3
What challenges did Lena face in her early career?
3:38–33:04
4
How does Lena Waithe view aging and identity?
33:04–1:00:34
5
What valuable experiences does Lena share with her mentorship program?
1:00:34–1:01:09
6
How does Lena view the responsibilities of parenting?
1:01:09–1:01:55
7
What insights does Lena offer about personal happiness in relationships?
1:01:55–1:02:16
8
What are the key themes in Lena's upcoming projects?
1:02:16–2:00:27