For three decades, Regina King (One Night in Miami, If Beale Street Could Talk) has captivated audiences on screen, cementing herself as a Hollywood legend. The Oscar and four-time Emmy-winning actor and director joins Tom to talk about some of her most iconic characters and why she wanted to take on her latest role as Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress, in the new Netflix biopic “Shirley.”
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Alana Yorke: Her near-death experience and new album
Laurie Anderson: AI and art, O Superman, and her prolific career
Kaia Kater: Strange Medicine and the Black origins of the banjo
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