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Jeremy O. Harris

Jeremy O. Harris has managed to be a playwright, actor, and screenwriter all while still being a student at the Yale School of Drama. His latest...

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Jacqueline Bisset

Jacqueline Bisset ladies and gentleman. Bullit, Casino Royale, Murder on the Orient Express, Day for Night. The list is endless. And then there are...

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Chris Elliott

Chris Elliott has made a living out of making us laugh. Whether that be through writing and performing on Late Night with David Letterman, support...

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Patrick Wang

Filmmaker Patrick Wang joined Sam today to discuss how drawing on his experiences growing up in Houston, TX, being an exchange student in Argentina...

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Zoë Ligon

This week’s episode was a first for the show, as Sam has on sex educator and visual artist Zoë Ligon. They dive into what it’s like to write...

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Viggo Mortensen

This week, Sam sits down with artist Viggo Mortensen ahead of the release of his new film, Green Book. They talk about his (very supportive)...

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Jonny Sun

Jonny Sun is a writer known, primarily, for his words on Twitter.com. His quick wit and life-affirming tweets has garnered the attention of many...

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Adam Bhala Lough

Adam Bhala Lough is a documentarian best known for his films “The Carter” and “The New Radical”. His most recent project, Alt-Right: Age of Rage, is...

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DeRay Mckesson

The death of Michael Brown changed DeRay Mckesson’s life (5:10). It changed all of our lives. But it was the unjust murder of the 18-year-old...

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Paul Dano

For 20 years Paul Dano has been a revelation in front of the camera. He began in L.I.E., evolved in Little Miss Sunshine, emerged in There Will be...

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Nathaniel Rich

Nathaniel Rich is a writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine whose latest piece, “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate...

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Kamasi Washington

Multi-talented jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington stopped by this week to discuss growing up as a “closeted nerd” in South Central Los...

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Judy Greer

Judy Greer! You’ve seen her in…everything? From Adaptation to Arrested Development to Ant-Man. Now she’s made her directorial debut, “A...

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Amma Asante

Amma Asante stopped by this week to discuss her latest film Where Hands Touch, her immersive life as a young actress, writing and selling her first...

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Colman Domingo

This week Sam talks to multi-hyphenate talent Colman Domingo (actor/playwright/director) about growing up in West Philadelphia, the experience of...

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Ione Skye

Ione Skye needs no introduction. She’s Ione Skye. You’ve seen her in plenty of film and television. Like many, I first saw her as...

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Jerrika Hinton

This week, Jerrika Hinton stopped by to talk about growing up in Texas, actors supporting themselves through “parallel careers”, when she...

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Sheila Vand

Sheila Vand joined us this week to talk about her childhood in California (1:57), how she got her start as a performer (6:46), her continued growth...

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