Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Good news, everybody. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of you have been stressed by this and
Speaker 1: been waiting. Um, the Washington football team officially chose a name. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are stressed about this.
Speaker 1: People couldn't sleep. I know some of you in the crew,
Speaker 1: you're just like at night, your wife was like, what's wrong, honey,
Speaker 1: Like they haven't got a name. So yeah, they they've gone.
Speaker 1: They have changed their name. They're now called the Washington Commanders,
Speaker 1: which I misheard the first time I heard it. I
Speaker 1: thought they said the Washington Commandos, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was just like a team that wasn't gonna wear underwear,
Speaker 1: Like that's a dope intimidation tactic. Yeah, tackle me see
Speaker 1: what's up. Yeah, But the Commanders is the new name,
Speaker 1: which is like a powerful name, isn't That's like, that's
Speaker 1: respect for Washington Commanders. Put some respect on that name.
Speaker 1: The Commander's got blown out forty seven to three. That's powerful.
Speaker 1: I love that. It's so funny. How like the NFL,
Speaker 1: this whole thing was like a scandal of like racism
Speaker 1: for the NFL, and then this is the end of
Speaker 1: that scandal and I'm sure the guys in the NFL
Speaker 1: were like, Wow, we get it, boys, normal racism scandals
Speaker 1: for us at the NFL, we got it. No more
Speaker 1: racism is what a lawsuit about? What God damn man
Speaker 1: coming to you from the heart of times. We were
Speaker 1: in New York City, the only city in America. It's
Speaker 1: The Daily Show. Here's edition tonight with head Whoopee makes
Speaker 1: a whoop see and Gogo butter wrong. This is The
Speaker 1: Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Hey, what's going on? Everybody?
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah. Let's jump
Speaker 1: straight into today's headlines. Alright, we kick things off with
Speaker 1: some news coming out of CNN. Yes, the channel you
Speaker 1: watch at the gym while you listen to your podcast.
Speaker 1: The network has always been famous worldwide for its twenty
Speaker 1: four hour news and people shouting at each other coverage,
Speaker 1: but over the past few months, the spotlight has been
Speaker 1: turned on them, especially in the wake of Andrew Cuomo's
Speaker 1: harassment scandals and then Chris Cuomo's secret defense of his
Speaker 1: brother's scandal. Well, today that scandal took yet another twist.
Speaker 1: We have news now to report involving our network, CNN
Speaker 1: president Jeff Zucker has just resigned after disclosing a consensual
Speaker 1: relationship with a colleague. He wrote to staffords a few
Speaker 1: minutes ago. Quote as part of the investigation into Chris
Speaker 1: Cuomo's tenure at CNN. Cuomo, of course, fired last month.
Speaker 1: Zuker says, I was asked about a consensual relationship with
Speaker 1: my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more
Speaker 1: than twenty years. I acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years.
Speaker 1: I was required to disclose it when it began, but
Speaker 1: I didn't. I was wrong. As a result, I am
Speaker 1: resigning today. Man, this must have been a really weird
Speaker 1: day for CNN. On the one hand, it's bad that
Speaker 1: your boss is resigning under a cloud of scandal. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, you got the scoop we begin with
Speaker 1: breaking news. Did you know that Jeff and Allison were banging?
Speaker 1: I saw them come in the office together one morning,
Speaker 1: and I totally called it. I mean I didn't say anything,
Speaker 1: but I totally called it. What's this justin I'm also involved?
Speaker 1: But that's right. Jeff Zucca, a long time ahead of CNN,
Speaker 1: is stepping down because, according to his statements, he didn't
Speaker 1: disclose that he was having a relationship with a colleague.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if this is the full story,
Speaker 1: but what I do know is that at CNN, it
Speaker 1: seems like there's no middle ground. When there's a scandal there,
Speaker 1: it's either someone who isn't disclosing enough or someone who's
Speaker 1: disclosing way too much. And look, I know the story
Speaker 1: is gonna come as a surprise to a lot of people.
Speaker 1: People are gonna be like, Wow, someone has been in
Speaker 1: charge of CNN this whole time. I thought it was
Speaker 1: just a bunch of roommates that found camera equipment behind
Speaker 1: a dumpster. But yes, Jeff Zucca was running CNN. And
Speaker 1: you may not know this, but he's the one who
Speaker 1: made CNN what it is today, right, He's the one
Speaker 1: who pushed it toward entertainment more and less news. You know,
Speaker 1: he's the one who said, enough of those international correspondents,
Speaker 1: Let's just get people fighting on camera, Like you remember
Speaker 1: when CNN would just make us watch Trump's empty podium
Speaker 1: for an hour. That was his choice. Yeah, And the
Speaker 1: reason he liked putting Trump on so much is because
Speaker 1: he liked Trump. Because he knew that Trump was good
Speaker 1: for ratings. Because Jeff Zucca is the one who gave
Speaker 1: Trump the job for the Apprentice, and the Apprentice is
Speaker 1: the only reason that Trump went on to become the president. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not even the craziest part of the story. The
Speaker 1: craziest thing is that Jeff Zucker's downfall all started with
Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo. Remember him, Yeah, Andrew Cuomo grouped women, Chris Cuomo,
Speaker 1: his brother, try to help him. So then CNN looked
Speaker 1: into Chris Cuomo. They investigated him, and then they found
Speaker 1: some ship on Jeff Zucca. What so, Andrew Coomo was
Speaker 1: such a creep that he took down himself, his brother, Chris,
Speaker 1: and the president CNN. He's like ruling faraoh, but by accident.
Speaker 1: I mean, at this point, who knows how long Cuomo's
Speaker 1: fallout is gonna last. A right, he grow up a
Speaker 1: bunch of people. Now everyone is feeling it. You know,
Speaker 1: he's like a human Chinobyl. Eighty years from now, Brazilians
Speaker 1: are going to be at war with Australians like Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 1: All right, but let's move on from someone who's losing
Speaker 1: his job to someone else who's in hot waters at work.
Speaker 1: Whoopi Goldberg, co host of the View and the only
Speaker 1: coach to lead the next to a winning season. In
Speaker 1: case you missed it, the five women on the View,
Speaker 1: we're having a discussion about mouse. You remember the graphic
Speaker 1: novel about the Holocaust. And by the time the discussion
Speaker 1: was all over, the panel was down to four. This morning,
Speaker 1: more fallout for Whoopi Goldberg. ABC News suspending Goldberg from
Speaker 1: the View for two weeks after she made controversial comments
Speaker 1: about Jewish people and the Holocaust on Monday's episode. The
Speaker 1: Holocaust is and about race. It's not about because it's
Speaker 1: about man's inhumanity to man. Better think about a white supremacy,
Speaker 1: but these are white groups of people. Goldberg apologizing live
Speaker 1: on the program Tuesday yesterday on a show, I misspoke,
Speaker 1: I regret my comments as I said, and I stand corrected.
Speaker 1: The segment also included an interview with Anti Defamation League
Speaker 1: CEO Jonathan Greenblack, who later commented on goldberg suspension. We
Speaker 1: shouldn't cancel what because she made a mistake. I heard
Speaker 1: what we say that she's committed to doing better. I
Speaker 1: accept that apology. ABC releasing a statement acknowledging that Whoopy
Speaker 1: has apologized, but asking her to take time to reflect
Speaker 1: and learn about the impact of her comments. Yep, WHOOPI
Speaker 1: Goldberg isn't a whole lot of trouble. And I understand why.
Speaker 1: I understand why people well upset with what she said
Speaker 1: because the way she said it, it made it sound
Speaker 1: like the Holocaust was just some white people who are
Speaker 1: fighting some other white people, you know, sort of like
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. But as the spokesman for the Anti
Speaker 1: Defamation League later explained to her, Hitler did see Jews
Speaker 1: as a separate race, and even worse, as a separate species.
Speaker 1: You know, like when you think about it, properly protecting
Speaker 1: the master race that was the Nazis whole thing, you know,
Speaker 1: race purity, like all these teeky torch bitches that you
Speaker 1: see running around now, Hitler was the o g of that.
Speaker 1: You know, in his mind, everyone was supposed to have
Speaker 1: blonde hair and blue eyes except for him. He got
Speaker 1: to look like an angry broom for some reason. But
Speaker 1: that's not the point, you know. So I totally understand
Speaker 1: why people were upset because the Holocaust had everything to
Speaker 1: do with race, and I'm glad that will be apologized because, like,
Speaker 1: I don't think that she was trying to hurt anybody here.
Speaker 1: You know, I think she made a mistake, and I
Speaker 1: will say I think it's a little weird that her
Speaker 1: network suspended her for sharing her view on the view.
Speaker 1: I mean, if she's remorseful, why send her away? Isn't
Speaker 1: it better to keep her and then use this as
Speaker 1: a teaching moment and then you can have everyone watching
Speaker 1: also learning like, oh, I actually didn't know that about
Speaker 1: the Holocaust? Maybe they didn't. Rather than sending her away
Speaker 1: for two weeks to do what reflect and and and
Speaker 1: what do her own research? I mean, that's never a
Speaker 1: good idea, you know these days, you tell someone to
Speaker 1: go research the Holocaust on their own, they'll come back
Speaker 1: in two weeks, like DoD you all know that the
Speaker 1: Jews have space lasers. He'll be like a damn it
Speaker 1: you on YouTube? Man. Anyway, let's move on to our
Speaker 1: next story. Today is Groundhog Day, which leads me to
Speaker 1: ask what the hell is Groundhog Day? People pull a
Speaker 1: rodent out of the ground and then ask the animal
Speaker 1: to predict the weather. This is so unfair because if
Speaker 1: Africans were doing ship like this, and you heard that
Speaker 1: we pulled animals out of the round, like there are
Speaker 1: villages in Africa where people wear animal skins, And if
Speaker 1: I tried to explain that Americans used groundhogs to predict
Speaker 1: the weather, they'd be like, but why not just use
Speaker 1: the satellite data? All right, that's it for the headlines.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to our top story, which is about Russia,
Speaker 1: the former and maybe future Soviet Union. Over the past
Speaker 1: few months, Russia has sent over one hundred thousand troops
Speaker 1: to its border with Ukraine, which understandably has a lot
Speaker 1: of people freaked out. Ukraine has been preparing for war.
Speaker 1: America and the United Nations have been threatening devastating sanctions
Speaker 1: on Russia, and today President Biden sent thousands of troops
Speaker 1: to Poland and Romania just in case Russia decides to
Speaker 1: add some more countries to a shopping list. But the
Speaker 1: big question is why why is Russia bringing Europe to
Speaker 1: the brink of war? Well, yesterday we finally heard from
Speaker 1: Russian presidents and leader who ends every sentence with or else,
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin, and he says that none of this is
Speaker 1: his fault. Russian President Vladimir Putin's first comments on Ukraine
Speaker 1: since in December, after his meeting in Moscow with the
Speaker 1: leader of Hungary. Putin claimed that the West has ignored
Speaker 1: Russia's tomp demands, including block in Ukraine from joining NATO.
Speaker 1: In his first public comments on this crisis in weeks,
Speaker 1: President Vladimir Putin accused the US of trying to contain Russia.
Speaker 1: Ukraine is just a tool, he said. Despite more than
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand Russian troops now massed on Ukraine's border,
Speaker 1: Russia still claims it's the real victim threatened by the
Speaker 1: US and its NATO allies, and Moscow insists it has
Speaker 1: no plans to invade Ukraine. Yeah, Putin says that Russia
Speaker 1: has no plans to invade Ukraine. So I guess those
Speaker 1: hundred thousand troops on the border, they're just doing that
Speaker 1: thing where you stand outside a restaurant and read the menu. No, no,
Speaker 1: we are not going in the right now. Maybe we
Speaker 1: come back for special occasion. And look, I know it's
Speaker 1: hard to feel sorry for anybody with the Russian accent,
Speaker 1: but I do actually understand why Russia is so freaked
Speaker 1: out by NATO, because here's the thing. Don't forget that
Speaker 1: NATO was formed to oppose the Soviet Union, right, That's
Speaker 1: why I was formed. Then the Soviet Union broke up,
Speaker 1: but instead of disbanding, NATO has been expanding closer and
Speaker 1: closer to Russia's borders. So from a Russian point of view,
Speaker 1: just the Russian point of view, it's it's almost like
Speaker 1: they lost a boxing match, but then the guy who
Speaker 1: beat them moved in next door. The fight is over.
Speaker 1: What are you doing here? I don't know, man, You
Speaker 1: tell me all right. When we come back, roy Wood Jr.
Speaker 1: Is Gonna put his life savings into Breakfast Cereal. You
Speaker 1: don't want to miss it. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: America is a nation of entrepreneurs, and roy Would Jr.
Speaker 1: Gets in on the action in his new segments Black
Speaker 1: in Business. I'm Royal Wood Jr. And every week I
Speaker 1: shot a light on black entrepreneurs change in the game,
Speaker 1: from app developers to the DVD man who somehow already
Speaker 1: has his hands on John Wick seven. If you're black,
Speaker 1: We're in business, right on people and walk on the
Speaker 1: Black in Business. This week, I'm betting it all on
Speaker 1: a sector that's experienced incredible growth in my house this year,
Speaker 1: Breakfast Syria. We all know the big players, Tony, the Tigers,
Speaker 1: the leprel Corn that steals from white kids and the
Speaker 1: Rabbit that also steals from white kids. But ain't none
Speaker 1: of them cereals black unless you count the Raisin brand box,
Speaker 1: which I mean just kind of feels black. But now
Speaker 1: there's a new face in the cereal bowl. I sat
Speaker 1: down with Nick King, a man who's introduced a cereal
Speaker 1: that's in the shape of a black power fist. She
Speaker 1: is truly put in black in business. Nick King, much
Speaker 1: respect to your brother, you are basically the jacket Robinson
Speaker 1: of Breakfast Cereals should have called them things for the tools.
Speaker 1: The biggest piece for me is how important it is
Speaker 1: for black kids to see themselves in a positive light.
Speaker 1: You know. But Breakfast cereal space that has never been infiltrated.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to be that change. But you
Speaker 1: got a good product. I can't wait to see these fists. Man.
Speaker 1: These is kibbles, I know, kibbles one. This is cat food.
Speaker 1: This is supposed to be fish. Yeah, actually, uh it's
Speaker 1: no longer unfortunately, empowerment fists. We've gone through multiple different
Speaker 1: manufacturing companies that that said the shaping the cereals too complex.
Speaker 1: Hang on, hang on, they said it was too complex.
Speaker 1: They got they got cinnament to shape, they got hunter
Speaker 1: smack frog turds. But you can't make this. We're dealing
Speaker 1: with a hundred year old industry, and because we didn't
Speaker 1: want to slow up the company any further, we have
Speaker 1: transition to regular circular puffs. What about the kids? What
Speaker 1: are the kids say? Have they tasted it? Kids have
Speaker 1: given their approval? What? Kids? What? Kids? Kids? My son
Speaker 1: is my first original taste test. He oh, he don't count.
Speaker 1: That's your son. You're kicking out the house. You know what?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm gonna do for you, Broke, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do a taste test with kids. You don't know.
Speaker 1: I accept challenge. H a little panel. First off, thank
Speaker 1: you for taking the time to appear on Black and Business.
Speaker 1: I know you all have a heart out right before bedtime,
Speaker 1: So let's get right to it now. Have any of
Speaker 1: you all seen any cereal with black people on the
Speaker 1: box before? No, I've only seen that rained Raisin cereal
Speaker 1: that has that son on it. See I told you
Speaker 1: that ship was black. That's a smart one right there.
Speaker 1: So Bailey, you've tried the cereal, give us your analysis, like,
Speaker 1: give the sial because it's crunchy. Is this cereal for
Speaker 1: black people? Just saying I'm not trying to make anything offensive,
Speaker 1: but just saying, that's a very fair question. This cereal
Speaker 1: was created by a black person, So in knowing that,
Speaker 1: how would you feel if you saw one of your
Speaker 1: white friends eating a black owned cereal? The only the
Speaker 1: only white person I know of my girlfriend? Okay, well
Speaker 1: that was unexpected with an answer, nonetheless continuing on what
Speaker 1: would make this cereal and even better investment if the
Speaker 1: cereal pieces like more like fist? Okay, raise your spoon.
Speaker 1: If you're also disappointed that the cereal is not shaped
Speaker 1: like a fist, So you all are saying the cereal
Speaker 1: itself just needs to live up to the radical message
Speaker 1: that's in the box. Excuse me a second. That's that's
Speaker 1: good I did, could I do? Alright? Nick? Good news.
Speaker 1: I spoke with children not related to you, and they
Speaker 1: all thought the cereal tastes a great Now, there was
Speaker 1: one thing that the kids were a little disappointed on,
Speaker 1: and that's that the cereal was not shaped like a fist. Now,
Speaker 1: I know you have explained why the cereal can't be
Speaker 1: a fist, but in the meantime, Nick, you gotta lean
Speaker 1: into the cereal being black. In fact, you need to
Speaker 1: make it blacker. I'm a little nervous about it. And
Speaker 1: then but here's a black ass Cereal. I know you
Speaker 1: even go hard for Fred Flakes not don't go nod
Speaker 1: on your head, Nick, What better spokesperson for Cereal than
Speaker 1: the chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, Fred the
Speaker 1: dude who played Fred Hamptons. What what else do you have? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: now what about this one? I got a cereal for
Speaker 1: black people that they can enjoy with their white girlfriends
Speaker 1: alli os. Now that too far, too far. That's allows
Speaker 1: I recognize my privilege. No, you don't say it like that.
Speaker 1: You say it like Tony the Tiger. I recognize my
Speaker 1: privilege the slogan. You gotta say it like that. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest, right, I didn't. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: ruin this for you. Your creativity was good. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to kill it. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I want kids to be able to sit at a
Speaker 1: table and see themselves see positive black representation on a
Speaker 1: Cereal box. And that's the idea. That's why I built
Speaker 1: Proud Plubs. You know what, Nick King, I respect your
Speaker 1: vision and I'm gonna change your life right now by
Speaker 1: investing in your serial. I'm gonna make your dreams come true. Now.
Speaker 1: How much money do you need for an initial investment?
Speaker 1: I don't say any anywhere upwards somewhere around here in
Speaker 1: fall part Yeah, damn, I do not have that kind
Speaker 1: of money, which is why I'll see you next episode
Speaker 1: where I'll be examining another breakfast industry toast. That's what
Speaker 1: I could afore. I think that could work. We got
Speaker 1: the English muffins, we got week, we got white, we
Speaker 1: got multigrain, you got Thank you so much for that. Roy.
Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, Google bots her role.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be joining me right here in the studio,
Speaker 1: So don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: My guest tonight is active and producer Google Role. She's
Speaker 1: here to talk about starring in the new psychological thriller
Speaker 1: series The Girl Before. Yo, that guy is creepy. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna put it out there like, that guy is creepy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's definitely an energy that you get on the show
Speaker 1: when you watch it, where you go. I don't know
Speaker 1: this person, but he really really creeps me out. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show, Google, Thanks for having me. Um, congratulations
Speaker 1: on yet another show that I think is going to
Speaker 1: get a lot of people talking. As as all your
Speaker 1: shows do, I feel like you have a like just
Speaker 1: a knack for picking really great roles in really great
Speaker 1: either limited series or shows. I mean, people loved you,
Speaker 1: you know, in Black Mirrors and Juniper is one of
Speaker 1: people's favorite episodes. In Loki, You've got some of the
Speaker 1: best reviews, which is not usual for like a superhero franchise.
Speaker 1: You know, people are like, oh, whatever, but people like
Speaker 1: you're amazing in it. And now here you are with
Speaker 1: this new is it a mini series or limited series?
Speaker 1: It's a limited series. It's four episodes, right, yeah, where
Speaker 1: you're playing what I think many New Yorkers will will
Speaker 1: relate to somebody who has rented a place from a
Speaker 1: very creepy person. I know. I mean it's such a
Speaker 1: departure for for David A. Yellowow as well, because I mean,
Speaker 1: I know you know him as well, right, he's um,
Speaker 1: you know, every really knows him from Selma Martin, Luther
Speaker 1: King and all the things that he's done in this
Speaker 1: character of Edward really keeps you guessing because he's this
Speaker 1: minimalist architect. He's a perfectionist, and you can't quite figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, if he's a good guy, if he's a
Speaker 1: bad guy. And you know, every episode there's so many
Speaker 1: twists and turns in the story. But yeah, it's been
Speaker 1: it's been a wonderful experience, you know what what was
Speaker 1: what's really going to shock some people's I was watching
Speaker 1: the clip with one of my colleagues and then she
Speaker 1: was like, oh, wow, she does a really great English accent.
Speaker 1: And then and I was thinking, I wonder how many
Speaker 1: people would think that about you and David where they
Speaker 1: go like, wow, they're doing really fantastic English accents. Are
Speaker 1: the people who know where you're from it at all?
Speaker 1: I know. It's so funny because when I first read
Speaker 1: the script for The Girl before, I was in the
Speaker 1: middle of filming Loki, and I've been doing an American
Speaker 1: accent for so long, and it's it's a weird one.
Speaker 1: I sort of I take that as a compliment. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, if people see you as an American and
Speaker 1: and believe you so fully that that even your own
Speaker 1: accent feels alien. I mean when I did Bell. You know,
Speaker 1: several years ago. I've been doing an American accent sort
Speaker 1: of about three years solid in projects, and I genuinely
Speaker 1: myself thought, do I know how to act in my
Speaker 1: own accent anymore? It's just been so long that I've
Speaker 1: been doing the American things. So but yeah, it's nice
Speaker 1: to be able to kind of switch back and forth.
Speaker 1: And as I say, I sort of I'm flattered if
Speaker 1: people believe me as an American too. I think people
Speaker 1: believe you in any role that you play. You received
Speaker 1: the Essence Award, congratulations, you know, the Breakthrough Award that
Speaker 1: is where you met David Wright, like sort of not
Speaker 1: met him officially, but you asked him to present the award,
Speaker 1: and that's sort of yeah. Well, it's funny actually because
Speaker 1: me and David were both born in the same hospital.
Speaker 1: He's a bit older than he was what we were
Speaker 1: both born in Oxford at the John Radcliffe Hospital a
Speaker 1: few years apart, and so so there's there's that connection,
Speaker 1: which is which is sort of surreal. And then he
Speaker 1: was one of the first British actors that I met
Speaker 1: when I went to l A and I didn't know anybody,
Speaker 1: and I was doing a TV series there, and you know,
Speaker 1: I met him and his family and and I just
Speaker 1: was so impressed because I was like, here's this man
Speaker 1: who's an incredibly talented theater actor and and film actor,
Speaker 1: but he's also just got such a grounded real life
Speaker 1: as well. And I was just so I was so
Speaker 1: impressed with that. And when when I was nominated for
Speaker 1: or won the Essence Award, I asked him to present
Speaker 1: it to me, and he actually took me by surprise
Speaker 1: because he brought his daughter Zoe onto the stage to
Speaker 1: present it to me, which which kind of took my
Speaker 1: breath away because she reminded me of this mini version
Speaker 1: of me, and and it was it was you know,
Speaker 1: it made me cry. It was so moving. But it
Speaker 1: was also I mean, he's very smart like that, David,
Speaker 1: because I sort of saw myself in her. And I
Speaker 1: also it gave me a moment to really ground my
Speaker 1: work in a way because I felt like, now I
Speaker 1: have to choose projects that a sort of good enough
Speaker 1: for Zoe, you know that that that that that's the
Speaker 1: sort of that idea of legacy and the idea of
Speaker 1: what she's looking up seeing somebody that looks like as
Speaker 1: much as I see a younger version of myself and
Speaker 1: hers she might see an older version of herself and me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel like that's a lot of pressure though, right,
Speaker 1: but not always. But then there's things like like Loki
Speaker 1: for example, where you go, wow, like what would my
Speaker 1: seven year old self be doing? Now? You know, I
Speaker 1: would be pinching myself and so so rather than seeing
Speaker 1: it as a pressure, I sort of see it as
Speaker 1: also to give myself permission to be joyful. And you
Speaker 1: have like one of the most interesting connections with Loki
Speaker 1: as well, because Tom Hidlston plays low Key, right, and
Speaker 1: then you went to the same drama schools he was
Speaker 1: the year below met at drama school, even though I'm
Speaker 1: a bit younger than he realized. You almost have like
Speaker 1: a like a horror movie story, but it's just no
Speaker 1: one's getting killed in your story, but like you like following,
Speaker 1: all the people were born at the same hospital we
Speaker 1: went to the school, like the degrees of no one's dying,
Speaker 1: but you know, yeah, I mean it's it was really comforting,
Speaker 1: I think, especially filming low Key during Empty twenty to
Speaker 1: be surrounded by so many Brits and women with Saku
Speaker 1: as well, who played speF and Dean in the show
Speaker 1: was also rather so. It felt like, you know, a
Speaker 1: bit of a brit reunion. And I think when the
Speaker 1: world was just so unstable, it was really comforting for
Speaker 1: all of us to be around us sort of alter
Speaker 1: drama school buddies. You've someone who's done everything. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people will know you from
Speaker 1: your acting. Um, you've also been somebody who's been really
Speaker 1: closely involved, um, you know, with the United Nations and
Speaker 1: working around the world. I didn't know this about you
Speaker 1: until I read a little deep into your world. So
Speaker 1: I've always known that your dad is South African, your
Speaker 1: mom is English. I always knew that your name Google
Speaker 1: it who is you know from South Africa? But what
Speaker 1: I didn't know was that your dad had to escape
Speaker 1: South Africa because he was fighting the apartheid government and
Speaker 1: it was actually the U n partly that helped him.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, the circle of life, it's really truly incredible,
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's a strange thing because you know,
Speaker 1: obviously it's it's an incredible honor have become a goodwill
Speaker 1: ambassador for you n HCR. But my dad, you know,
Speaker 1: under the apart idea was student activist, member of the
Speaker 1: a n C you know, and um and had to
Speaker 1: flee UM and it was a very difficult time for him.
Speaker 1: And he was he was studying doing his medical training
Speaker 1: and he actually UNHCR helped him finish his medical training
Speaker 1: and you know, and come to the UK. So when
Speaker 1: I got the call to be able to go on
Speaker 1: my first mission with u n h c R, you know,
Speaker 1: to my cousin, was like, ah ha, you know, that
Speaker 1: is an ancestral call. You know, like that truly is
Speaker 1: an ancestral call that it sort of brings it back, um,
Speaker 1: and it makes it so much more meaningful for me,
Speaker 1: you know, to know that that's part of my cultural
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