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I really can't believe this is the first time we're meeting.
I know, but I'm so happy to meet you.
I just think you're super fantastic--
Thank you.
--and just so talented--
I think you're amazing.
--so creative.
And you know, of course, tWitch.
You were in Magic Mike with tWitch,
so that's your pal over there.
Hey, what's going on?
What up?
Yeah.
You didn't have to get waxed or anything, though?
I had to get the first--
the top waxed.
Just the top, though?
Just the top.
That's nothing.
Yeah, my manager, when I got it, I was like, oh--
and she sent me the video--
Of me waxing tWitch?
Yeah.
It was scary.
Yeah.
Yeah, because he kept--
the way he's holding your hand--
Yeah, no, he tried to bite me.
--he looks-- yeah, I understand.
The pain is kind of real.
It was terrible.
You're so motherly, the way he was holding--
Yeah.
It was like, please, don't make it stop.
No, it was horrible.
It was terrible.
First, let me congratulate you.
This is huge news--
you're in Star Wars.
You're going to be in the next Star Wars.
I am.
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It's really crazy.
I don't know.
I'm very honored.
It's a very big deal.
Like, there's this thing going around on the internet of me
in a Star Wars T-shirt when I was in high school.
So it's been a long thing.
So that you already were projecting it
when you were young?
Yeah, already.
Yeah.
That was the first toy I had--
Lando.
Wow.
That was the very first--
I remember it like yesterday.
My dad gave it to me.
I had a Darth Vader one, too.
I told my dad immediately, like--
I was like-- oh, he's, like, awesome.
And my mom was in the back.
She was like, don't mess it up.
I mean, she's like, don't mess this up.
Yeah.
She's like-- because Billy Dee is like--
that's hers--
Yeah.
--kind of thing.
Well, that's a whole different thing.
You can't compare yourself to Billy Dee.
It's a whole new kind of thing.
I know.
Yeah.
Yeah, I have to change.
But you see, you--
it's not weird.
You say it's crazy, but you kind of put it out there
you wanted to be in Star Wars.
And you put it out there that you wanted to be Spider-Man.
And both of those things happened.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know if you've seen Atlanta yet.
And if you have not seen the show Atlanta,
you should see it.
Because you created it, you write it, you direct it,
you star in it.
And it's so good.
And there's so many funny little moments.
You're really a funny person, but it's also heavy.
You want to explain what it is?
I just wanted to make Twin Peaks with rappers.
Uh-huh?
Which was like, at the time, people were like,
I don't know what that is.
I was like, I get it.
Because it's very particular.
But I just wanted to show how it was growing up in Atlanta.
It felt like I always had those kind of weird feelings.
I was like, how do I exude that?
We tried to get it.
I think it feels good.
No, it's just weird to be filming it in your hometown.
Yeah, it's good.
It has a great look to it.
And everybody in it, all the people in it
are-- it's a great cast.
And you're amazing--
Oh, thanks.
--that you're doing all that.
And you're Childish Gambino, which I didn't know.
I knew that I liked Childish Gambino,
and I didn't know that was you.
Yeah, that's me.
Yeah.
A lot of people don't know.
It's weird, they're kind of separate things, but--
How did you come up with the name
Childish Gambino for yourself?
I put it in a Wu-Tang name generator.
Uh-huh.
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I don't know if that's something that's in rap circles.
We could ask Snoop, probably, if it happened.
But put my name in a Wu-Tang name generator,
and that's what came out.
Yeah, and it just kind of stuck.
I would have changed it to something cooler
if I had known it was going to be a thing.
But I was in college, so it just kind of stuck.
Well, you should be careful from now on.
Because whatever you do becomes successful,
so don't play around anymore.
Don't play around.
So, welcome.
This is your first time.
Yeah.
I'm a huge fan.
I think you're so crazy talented,
and so I'm glad to meet you.
And you were here a couple of years ago.
And since I've seen you, two Emmys, two Golden Globes,
and one Grammy.
Congratulations.
Yeah.
Thank you.
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That's so great.
Yeah, life is really good for you right now.
Yeah, it's not bad.
Yeah, no, it's great.
Can't complain.
You were great on Saturday Night Live, very funny, wonderful--
yeah.
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So you didn't know each other.
You met on the movie?
Yeah, we met kind of in preproduction.
And we did a bunch of improvs and scenes
together to just test together, basically.
- And how did that go?
What were your first impressions of each other?
I mean, I knew him from the movie.
I knew--
Yeah, and I knew Donald from forever, and--
Yeah, which I didn't know.
It was great.
It was really great.
Yeah.
I was just like, I don't know.
I know this guy's good.
I've already seen him work.
I don't know if he thinks I'm going to be too silly
or whatever.
because I remember being--
That was a concern, yeah.
He just kept saying that.
But I had a-- it was a really good time, that first improv.
We started improvving scenes together and joking.
Yeah, but then when we shot the movie,
you can't improv the same way in Star Wars because you have
to-- when you're improvving, you end up mentioning Saved
by the Bell--
Human things.
--and human, world things, and make references and stuff.
And there's somebody there who knows everything
about Star Wars by the side being like,
you can't say banana.
Right, exactly.
The name that doesn't exist.
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So you're like, all right.
Yeah, there's no bananas.
Yeah, spoiler alert--
That's true, that you can't go off like that.
--everyone who was excited for the bananas--
How many times did you audition?
Because this seems like a very secretive movie
for the process.
Yeah.
I auditioned way less than you.
But I think I auditioned, like, seven times.
No, I auditioned six times, yeah.
Oh.
Yeah.
Weren't sure about me.
OK.
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Really?
Six times and seven times?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
And it was the same thing, or they
wanted to see something different from you each time?
I don't know.
I don't really know.
You never kind of know.
I mean, mine, the third one was on the Millennium Falcon.
And it was with Chewbacca.
And so I guess they wanted to see how I could
deal with a wookiee, you know?
And I had to learn Shyriiwook for the audition, which
is the wookiee language.
Right, yes.
So yeah, I had to kind of perfect that.
And yeah, it was great.
I heard that, when Harrison Ford was on the show,
and I asked him when they were auditioning for someone to play
a young version of him, and his advice was, don't do it.
Right, and I was watching that.
You saw that?
While I was auditioning.
Right.
So that was a moment where I sort of went, oh, whoops.
You went ahead with it?
Yeah.
So what is the movie about?
Woody Harrelson was here, and he just basically read the bio
that the studio sent out.
He literally took it out of his pocket and read the bio.
So what would you say the movie's about?
I think it's basically you meet Han Solo when he's younger.
You meet him at a different time in his life.
And he's from kind of a hardscrabble background.
He's trying to make a name for himself.
And he has a lot of adventures, and meets a lot of people,
and learns about the real world--
or this Star Wars version of--
Yeah, the real world.
I think you're getting to see everybody early on.
And it's a really good summer film, I think.
Are we allowed to say we saw it?
I mean, we saw it.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's really good, by the way.
It's really, really, really good.
And I say that as a Star Wars fan.
Like, that was really enjoyable.
But it's like a good summer film.
It's a good heist film.
That's basically it.
You kind of see how Han is, from the get-go,
kind of a brash person.
But you kind of see why he's like that.
It's like sometimes, that's all you have at the beginning.
So you met Harrison?
Yeah, I had lunch with Harrison.
And how was that?
It was awesome.
So everyone kind of prepped me and was
like, he can be grouchy and stuff.
And then he was great.
He is great.
Yeah, he was really supportive, really nice.
We talked about a lot of stuff.
And he was very kind of--
gave us his blessing.
Oh, good.
And then you met Billy Dee Williams?
Yes, I did.
And how was that?
It was really great because he was exactly what he
should have been for me.
Like, I came in with a lot of ideas of what Lando--
I was just excited.
And I was like, I grew up on Lando.
And that was my first toy.
And maybe he's from this other planet where he's--
maybe he's high brow, and his family's rich.
But he's an outcast because he likes to gamble.
And maybe he's from--
I had all these ideas.
And he literally just let me ramble on for a while.
And then I was like, so what do you think?
And I don't even think he was looking at me when he said it.
He was like, I don't know.
Just be charming.
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That's enough.
And I was like, all right.
I threw all the paper out.
No, but that's exactly what I needed to hear.
He was like, yeah, don't overthink it.
Just be cool.
Yeah.
So that was your first toy when you were growing up?
Yeah.
And now, you have action figures.
I mean, come on.
How cool is this--
Oh, my god.
--that you have your own action figures?
Yeah.
I know.
And that was your first toy?
Yeah, I gave it--
because they sent them to us.
And it's super weird for me because I gave it to my son.
And he's just like---
his mom was always being like, who's that?
And he's just playing.
It's like, oh, this is Daddy.
And she's like, Daddy's, like, riding
a horse made of Play-Doh.
And Daddy-- I was like, I didn't feel like that before.
But to see him do it, it's like a full circle of--
I don't know, it's beautiful.
It's weird, but--
Yeah, but beautiful, yeah.
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