-Welcome to the show.
But also I want to say welcome back to the show.
-Thank you. Thank you.
-'Cause you were here but not as a guest, really.
You came out with Mia Wasikowska.
Wasikowska? -Killed that.
-All right, thank you. [ Laughter ]
And Spike Jones. -Mm-hmm.
And he actually directed you guys,
and they filmed you. Actually, it's a great thing.
Go to our YouTube page if you want to see what we did
with Spike Jones and Lakeith.
But we -- It was like a dance -- whole like dance sequence thing
with music from Run the Jewels, and you were fantastic.
-Thank you.
-Was that your first professional dancing gig?
-Yeah, first professional, but, you know,
I've always been dancing.
I just -- Soon as I wake up, I just think,
"Check the time, dance." [ Laughter ]
-Really? You dance every day?
-Oh, every day. Yeah. -Do you do the same dance?
Or there's different dances? -No, man.
I think you need to let the spirit lead when you dance.
You shouldn't think about, you just move.
-Wow. -You know?
-What would you do now if you let the spirit take over?
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-[ Laughing ]
Oh, dang! Come on, now.
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I like that. That's a little kind of --
-You couldn't see it but my toes were in my shoes doing this.
-Oh, wow! Fantastic.
-I think that's also important to keep in mind.
-The dancing kind of -- kind of got you
your job on "Atlanta," though, didn't it?
-Yeah. Actually, yeah.
I was -- I was on the dance floor --
only person on the dance floor.
-You were by yourself? -Yeah.
So I was just dancing with my imaginary dance partner.
And I happened to bump into this guy.
And I looked up, and it was Gambino.
And I was like, "Oh, I know who you are."
And he was like, "Oh, yeah.
I think you'd be great for this role that I have in mind."
And I was like, "Cool." [ Laughter ]
And that was Darius, on "Atlanta."
-And there you go. And now here you are,
two season -- three seasons later.
Yeah. Look at this. Look at this.
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So what -- Dude -- "Get Out," "Atlanta,"
and now you're in this movie "Sorry to Bother You,"
which is, honestly, I've never seen
anything like that movie, I would say.
-You've never seen anything like this movie.
It's so insane and so crazy. It's a wild ride.
Like, I don't even know if anyone's seen the trailer yet.
-No, yeah. The trailer went viral.
It was fantastic. -Yeah, like, that's not even
a drop in the bucket to what this movie is.
It's -- It's crazy. -And who did it again?
Who directed it, who wrote this?
-Boots Riley. -Yeah, Boots Riley.
-Yeah, Boots Riley. He's got a big afro,
two chops, and a great musical sense.
-Yeah. It's -- Can you explain who you play in the movie?
-I play Cassius Green, who is basically a telemarketer
who's trying to better himself and better position himself
in the world, and in order to do this,
he has to put on his white voice.
But the movie itself is -- It's an absurd dark comedy,
light dark comedy, with magical realism.
Realis-- Realisnisnism?
-Yeah, that's right. [ Laughter ]
You killed that. -With magical -- it's --
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, there you go. -It's sci-fi.
Just using the world of telemarketing
to sort of go on the journey with Cassius
who's trying to better his life.
-Explain the white voice for a second.
-Okay. -Because when you --
when you talk in white voice,
it's actually just a white person doing your voice, right?
-Yeah, yeah. [ Laughter ]
-You're lip syncing. No, it's -- it's funny.
-Yeah, it's -- So we're on set doing this.
[ Laughter ]
And then, they had David Cross, who does my voice in the show,
come on and overdub it. And the white voice
is the mechanism that's used to sort of bring yourself
up the ladder in this world,
in this strange, fictional world.
-It's a great cast. -But I actually really have
a white voice, and I've been using so far
since I've been on this show.
[ Laughter ]
-This is your white voice? -Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-What is your actual voice?
-[ Loudly ] I don't know
if I want to release that to the world!
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, my God, that's unbelievable.
Go back to -- yeah. Go back to white voice.
[ Laughter ]
This is really white voice.
[ Laughter ]
I auditioned for the movie. They said, "No, too white."
-It's really good. -Thank you, yeah.
I'm pretty good at being white, yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-Great cast -- Armie Hammer, Danny Glover is in this.
Do you ever get Danny and Donald Glover confused
if you e-mail each other?
-Well, I thought -- I thought Danny Glover
was Donald's dad for a little while.
-Yeah, me too I think. -Then I realized --
No, I have Donald in my phone -- Donald Glover --
as Donald Duck in my phone. [ Laughter ]
So I never get them confused. Yeah, Donald Ducky.
-Donald Ducky. [ Light laughter ]
And do you give everyone nicknames?
-Yeah, yeah. I got -- Let's see, who else?
I got Don Cheadle as Don Cheeto.
[ Laughter ]
I've got David Cross as David Crisscross.
-Ah. Missed the bus.
-Yeah, I got Ava Duvernay as just Lovely
because she's just so lovely. -Oh.
-And, yeah.
And then I've got Jordan Peele as Jordan PP.
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