- And one of my favorite movies of all time
is a HBO original film called "Boycott",
in which Jeffrey Wright played Martin Luther King Jr.
- Yep.
- Jo Ann Robinson was played by CCH Pounder.
- Who I love. Sidebar!
- We we're talking about CCH...what did you say?
- I said, "Who I love, sidebar!"
- Yes! - One of the best in the game.
- Well talk about her real quick.
About CCH Pounder.
- CCH Pounder, brilliant actor,
effortless performances time and time again,
has such a command of space and, like, internal story.
She can literally have no lines
(all laugh) - Yes, yes, yes.
I've seen that, a look, a turn, a think,
and you're like, you're with it, you're with it, yes.
- Yes, and it will grab you and at the same time
make your internal self sob.
She can do that, she is a force, but then there's
also, like this supreme delicacy there.
- She's a supreme delica...
- Yeah, like, the intention, that force
and that strength is not meant to...
She can break you but she can also hug you.
- Oh, stop her before I fall apart. (shrieking)
(laughter)
- Well, it seems we have another guest. (laughter)
- Holy shit! Sorry. (laughter)
- Yes!
- Oh my Gosh.
- Oh my God, my air pod fell out. (laughing) (mumbling)
Sorry for swearing.
- Not that there's a need for formality at this point,
but lets introduce to the show CCH Pounder.
- I love you.
- The one and only.
- Amazing, oh my gosh. Sorry.
- Y'all talk, y'all talk, I wanna...
- You are amazing, a force, a leader.
This is, you guys, you will know already, like wow...
- [CCH] I just wanna jump back...
- Paved the wave, paving and paving.
- [CCH] I just want to jump back to Shirley Chisholm
in my real life just for a moment you guys
because I was around when she wanted to do that.
I was in America and I was working for a now defunct
Youth In Action.
Heavily male, black male, and I remember Shirley
speaking and they were just so ridiculously insulting.
Our community was so ridiculously...
- Oh, our community.
- About the fact that she was a woman.
That equal black woman.
Maybe is she were a beauty they would have something
to latch on to, "Well at least I'm gonna vote for the
good looking..."
They were ridiculous and I remember being in
that room with that group of men
and I was completely invisible.
I was a summer intern and I certainly was not seen
and I remember looking at that woman and wondering
how she was pulling it off because she had grit,
she had a sense of purpose.
She was tiny, and I was like, "You've got to be kidding."
I never forgot her, and in the early 80s I wanted
to do a film about Shirley Chisholm.
I can't tell you how excited that she actually got done
because in those days they told me, "You gotta be kidding."
"Shirley Chisholm?"
"You want to do a movie about Shirley?"
"Never happening", and you've proved otherwise.
Thank you.
♪ I'm talking lineage, yeah ♪
♪ Talking connection, oh ♪
♪ Call and response ♪
♪ We got to shower people ♪
♪ With the affection, oh ♪
♪ CCH Pounder ♪
(laughing)
♪ Uzo Aduba yeah ♪
♪ There was love and performance ♪
♪ And I gotta prove ya ♪
- [Man] Prove ya, all right.
♪ Each other ♪
- [Woman] Not prove you...
- I gotta prove y'all. I was searching for a rhyme.
I'm so sorry.
- You are a dream.
- We're gonna cut to a quick break
and when we come back we're gonna be back with
both CCH Pounder and Uzo Aduba, excuse us.
- My brain is like...(whooshing sound) (creaking sound)