Chapter 1: How does spring break influence the show's theme?
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It is spring break, and just like we did in college, everyone on our show is taking the opportunity to stay home and catch up on our homework. Speak for yourself, dweeb. I'm at a karaoke bar in Cabo, absolutely lit on tequila, singing Chapel Roan at the top of my lungs. Okay, fine. While Bill is having fun, the rest of us are reviewing our notes from the past year or so.
Delroy Lindo may not have won an Oscar for his role in the movie Sinners, but I am sure he was just as happy to join us back in January to talk about his amazing career. Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm such a big fan of yours, I feel like I've seen you in movies and TV for a very long time, but I don't really associate you with one role, and I was wondering, do other people, do people recognize you mostly for one thing or another?
One thing or another, meaning different audience members have different references for me based on what they've seen me do. There is not one part in particular.
That said, it has always occurred to me, watching you in all kinds of different things, that your characters have a certain quality that they all share. And I actually heard you tell a story, you were on stage quite recently with your good friend Denzel Washington. And you told a story about how early on in your career you were approached by a guy on a bicycle.
I think it was like you were getting your car. And that guy seemed to nail it. So I was wondering if you could tell that story to us.
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Chapter 2: What highlights did Delroy Lindo share about his career?
So I had a lot of instruction.
Yeah. Do you still play now that the movie is all wrapped in the past?
No, I have. God bless them. The producers gave me one of the keyboards. I've been so busy, frankly, I haven't had a chance to get back to it. I don't know, man. If you don't practice, you may not... Absolutely.
Yeah, I know. It's true. I want to ask you this before we move to our game, which is we understand that one of your legacies as your youth in Britain is that you were a big fan of soccer. I am. Man U, right? All day long. All day long, Man U. I mean, you're a pretty prominent guy. Has the team honored you? Have they had you there? I mean, they have a lot of fans, but you're pretty prominent.
Man, they have not. And give them a call.
I will. I will. If only I'd known. Are you then very excited for the upcoming World Cup?
I am. Yeah. I really, really am. Yeah. Very, very much so. I'm not sure. I don't have tickets yet. Anybody in the audience who has influence there can give me a call. Yeah, I'm really excited. I'm really excited.
Yeah. It's a sad thing when someone like you has to ask us. Yeah. Yeah, right. Do you have any divided loyalties? You grew up in England. You live here. It's where your career has been. You know who you're rooting for?
Actually, that's a really good question. And I would say the answer, do I have divided loyalties? I would say I'd like to see the English team do well. I'd like to see the American team do well. So I guess I've got my feet on both sides of the fence there.
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Chapter 3: What unique advice did Delroy Lindo receive as a young actor?
So like every other fan of Better Call Saul, I was terrified every episode that you were going to get killed, right? As was I. Well, that was the question. Because I wondered, was it like in The Sopranos, where every actor famously would open the script that week, wondering if their number had come up?
Yeah, exactly. I mean, I'm thinking the Game of Thrones people had it even worse. Yeah, sure. Yeah, my good friend Patrick Fabian and I would just, the first couple of seasons, I would say we would get our scripts and just call each other flipping through and just go, I'm not doing this. And he didn't tell me that he knew he was going to die in that last season.
I got surprised reading the script. And Bob and Patrick and I lived together for most of the seasons of shooting. And I ran upstairs. I was like, I can't believe you kept this for me. And he even kept it from his wife who watched it. Really? Watched it when it aired and was like, what?
This isn't my situation. Or it doesn't sound like his. But I can't imagine being in a marriage where you're like... How does she react when she sees me die?
I was just thinking that. Just watching to see if there's like an unconscious grin.
Did you just giggle?
We have to talk about Pluribus, which I love and am just so excited when every episode comes. Thank you.
I hear Paula won't watch it.
It's not that I won't watch it. I Listen, I love Ray Sehorne to death and I would watch anything. I would watch like a cleaning product commercial with you. But I don't know how to do streaming or any kind of paid television. So I watched Better Call Saul so many times that I know so much more about it than what any of you are saying. Because I watched it on DVD.
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