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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso is a weekly series of intimate conversations with artists, activists, and politicians. Where people sound like people. Hosted by Sam Fragoso. New episodes every Sunday.
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April 27, 2025
<p>Before Viola Davis (How to Get Away with Murder) became an EGOT-winning actor, she was an observer. Her work takes the human experience and transmutes it, offering a mirror and a window into ourselves.</p> <p>Today, we sit to unpack her recent, liberating projects in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Woman-King-Viola-Davis/dp/B0B8Q3DQPX">The Woman King</a> (4:24) and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.ce18124f-5eb6-431a-b5d3-41ba43d8ce55?autoplay=0&ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb">G20</a> (4:50), the formative years she spent growing up in Rhode Island (13:52), and how she captured those familial memories in her 2022 memoir Finding Me (17:12). Then, we talk about Viola’s start as a performer (23:40), what she learned attending Juilliard (31:57), and the quagmire she faced as a Black actor emerging on Broadway and in Hollywood post-graduation (35:10).</p> <p>On the back-half, Davis reflects on a scene from August Wilson’s play Seven Guitars (37:50), her singular experience acting alongside Meryl Streep in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.0aabfbe6-e2b7-8098-3c28-bfba82736fba?autoplay=0&ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb">Doubt</a> (47:25), and the ways her life transformed during Shonda Rhymes’ <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.a2b90a83-2901-66bb-ef3c-77d710dec77b?autoplay=0&ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb">How to Get Away with Murder</a> and Steve McQueen’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Widows-Steve-McQueen/dp/B07KLCY319">Widows</a> (53:00). To close, Viola shares her views on legacy (1:01:05) and how she finds her way back home, each and every day (1:05:20).</p> <p>Thoughts or future guest ideas? Email us at [email protected].</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
April 20, 2025
Host Sam Fragoso interviews Senator Elizabeth Warren, who passionately advocates for working families and discusses her efforts to challenge powerful institutions and reform campaign finance.
April 13, 2025
Sam Fragoso interviews Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her new book, Dream Count, and her journey as a writer and feminist icon.
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