Sex and the City is back, guys. After 20 years,
they've started the revival.
Which is a weird name for a thing,
'cause it sounds like it was dead.
Like, it sounds like all the actors were dead.
And then they were like, "Come on, Sarah Jessica,
"come on, we need a few more seasons.
Come on! Don't leave me now."
But yeah, they've done it, and they're all back together.
Um...
it's just, like, I don't know how I feel about revivals.
Like, part of me goes: This is great, 'cause it's nostalgia.
But then part of me thinks, like, they're just tricking us,
because of nostalgia, do you know what I mean?
Like, we're gonna watch it just because...
it reminds us of something.
Doesn't even have to be the real story.
Like, they could bring back Family Matters,
and it could be, like, space aliens,
and we'd be like: Well, there's no Urkel,
but I'll watch just to see how it ends.
(chuckles) The show brings back memories.
Pshoo! Pshoo! Pshoo!
(alien voice): Did I do that?
It's not the same. It's just not the same.
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and Lou Llobell!
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We kick things off with a story out of Great Britain,
the country where yas queen originated.
When the COVID pandemic first swept the world in 2020,
the UK was one of the countries that were hardest hit.
And it responded with a national lockdown.
All nonessential stores were closed,
public and private gatherings were banned,
and Meghan and Hairy were forced to socially distance
7,000 miles away.
But now we're learning that some of the people
who imposed the lockdown weren't obeying it themselves.
Boris Johnson is facing fierce criticism this morning.
A leaked video shows senior Downing Street staff
joking about a Christmas party
thrown by the British prime minister
during last year's tier 3 COVID lockdown.
This video shows aides rehearsing for a briefing
four days after the alleged party.
The insensitive remarks were recorded
just days after an alleged Christmas celebration
at 10 Downing Street a year ago,
a time when COVID restrictions in the country
banned such gatherings
and while Britain was battling with overflowing hospitals
and rising COVID deaths.
In Parliament, the prime minister addressed the scandal.
-I was also furious to see that clip. -(jeering)
I have been repeatedly assured
since these allegations emerged
-that there was no party and that... -(shouting)
and that no COVID rules were broken.
And that is what I have been repeatedly assured.
We saw them practicing the lie, and now you're gonna tell us
to believe the lie.
(like Johnson): There was no party.
You guys have to believe the thing that we saw is a thing
is not a thing.
It is a thing. Everybody must believe me.
You know, Boris, Boris would be a lot more believable
if it didn't look like someone
just pulled him out of a mosh pit.
And, guys, it's not just Boris, by the way.
It feels like every month we catch another politician
breaking their own COVID rules.
Gavin Newsom went to that fancy restaurant.
The mayor of Austin flew to Cabo.
Andrew Cuomo kissed that bat.
At the same time, I get why they broke COVID rules
to have that party.
I mean, people look forward all year long
to the office Christmas party.
It's the only chance you have to hook up with a coworker,
have everyone in the office see it,
and then pretend like it never happened.
It's, like, a hall pass from HR.
But...
the worst part is how they're on video joking about it.
I mean, it's one thing to break your own rules.
It's another thing to laugh about it.
It's yet another thing to videotape it.
It's like they're trying to win the Dumbass Triathlon.
If they manage a scandal that badly,
how do they handle the pandemic?
What?
Even worse?
Total disaster?
Oh. That makes sense. Huh.
I do feel bad for them, you know,
that this whole thing came out a year later, you know?
'Cause this scandal is happening now,
but the video is from a year ago.
'Cause I'm sure after the first six or eight months,
they probably thought it was over, you know?
They probably thought they'd gotten away with it.
It's almost like, imagine if you were at work,
and then your eighth grade teacher walked in like:
We finally tracked down
whose gum that was under the desk, mister!
You're getting two weeks detention!
What? I'm 37.
Do you want it to be three?
But let's move on to a politician
who never even had the chance
to face calls for her resignation:
Hillary Clinton.
Five years after somehow losing an election
to the world's worst person,
Hillary is hoping that her failures
can become a teachable moment for the rest of us.
NEWSWOMAN: Hillary Clinton, for the first time,
sharing the victory speech she hoped to deliver
in the 2016 presidential election.
Clinton revisiting the speech as part of a MasterClass video
being released today on the topic of resilience.
I've never shared this with anybody.
I've never read it out loud.
"My fellow Americans,
"today you sent a message to the whole world.
"Our values endure,
"our democracy stands strong,
"and our motto remains
"e pluribus unum.
Out of many, one."
Oof.
That's brutal.
And the way she's sitting like that
and she's reading it to us,
it's like the world's most depressing fairy tale.
"Once upon a time,
"an ogre crushed the dreams of a princess,
"and nobody lived happily ever after.
The end."
But, yes, Hillary Clinton
is giving a MasterClass on resiliency
that's now available everywhere.
Except in Wisconsin, for some reason.
And in it, in it, she reads the victory speech
that she never got to deliver.
And I-I really love how she's like,
"I've never shared this speech with anybody before.
"It was too painful and...
"You're paying me how much?
Oh, well, I guess I could read a few pages."
And, you know, if this is a thing
that we're allowed to do and someone pays you to do it,
I-I also have speeches
that I never got the chance to give.
I've got it right here.
"I'm so honored to be named the MVP of the NBA Finals
"and just days after being awarded
the Nobel Prize for World's Coolest Penis."
And, look, yeah, you have to admit,
it's a little weird to teach a MasterClass
on the biggest loss of your life.
I mean, 'cause there's plenty of things
that Hillary could teach a MasterClass on.
She's kicked ass in so many things.
It could be, like, the inner workings of Congress
or international relations
or, uh, um...
I don't want to say killing Jeffrey Epstein.
Look, I'll say one thing.
You'll never see Donald Trump doing this.
He doesn't write backup speeches,
because whether he wins or loses,
that dude gives the same speech.
"And my legal team
"completely destroyed the prosecution.
"And I won the case.
"Totally won. What? What's that?
"Lights out? Okay, night night, warden.
See you guys mañana."
But let's move on to our top story.
It's the holiday season right now.
You know, that time of year where sexual harassment is okay
if it happens under a parasitic plant.
It's also the time of year
where Americans gather together with their families
to eat as much food as humanly possible.
Yeah, between the Thanksgiving turkey
and the Christmas goose
and the New Year's deep-fried peacock? I don't know.
It seems like every day is another excuse for a giant meal.
I mean, for the whole month,
people are basically playing Tetris with their stomach.
"If I can fit this turkey leg between these two yams,
"maybe I won't puke.
Oh, I did it." (grunts)
Unfortunately, though, every year, there are Americans
who can't participate in this feeding frenzy
because, for them, food is hard to come by.
And this year, there are more hungry people than usual.
NEWSMAN: When COVID-19 swept across the U.S. in 2020,
the need for emergency food assistance exploded,
and that led experts to label hunger
as the secondary pandemic.
Compounding the issue, rising food prices
caused by labor shortages, transportation costs
and supply chain disruptions.
Consumer prices have jumped 6.2% since last year,
a 30-year high,
with the cost of groceries up 5.4% overall.
Some items like beef and bacon
surging by more than 20%.
NEWSMAN 2: An average family of four paying $175 more
for groceries per month than they paid last year.
NEWSWOMAN: Feeding America says 42 million people,
or one in eight,
are going to bed hungry this year.
Yeah, you hear that? That's a terrible, terrible stat.
42 million Americans are going to bed hungry.
And nobody...
nobody in America should be going to bed hungry.
You know, you should be going to bed
replaying all the conversations you had all day
and overanalyzing if you said anything wrong.
Plus, going to bed hungry
takes all the fun out of your sex dreams.
'Cause now a shirtless pizza guy shows up at your door,
and your mind is like, "Aw, yeah.
We're gonna eat that pizza."
But this is actually a big problem in America.
It's called food insecurity, which I know sounds
like when a watermelon wears its T-shirt in the swimming pool,
but all it means is that people don't know
where their next meal is coming from.
And, honestly, it makes no sense.
It makes no sense for a country this rich
to have this many hungry people.
Then again, it makes no sense for a country this rich
to have such poor health care
or such poor infrastructure
or such...
Actually, are you guys sure that America's rich?
I'm just saying, is this like a lie that you said at a bar once
and it kind of spun out of control?
Either way, thanks to the pandemic,
inflation and supply chain issues,
this problem is as bad now in America
as it's been in decades.
And it may not come as a surprise
that the groups hit hardest by food insecurity
are the ones that get hit hardest
by basically every problem in America:
minorities, the elderly and the disabled.
But it turns out this problem is so widespread
that it's also hitting a group you might never expect:
the troops.
NEWSMAN: Near Norfolk Air Station Oceana,
you're looking at an American shame--
the need to feed military families
who can't feed themselves.
160,000 military families fight hunger.
Thank you for your service.
NEWSMAN: Especially vulnerable,
junior enlisted ranks.
Almost 30% of them need help.
The people who serve our country
and sacrifice every single day
have to go to a food pantry
to make sure that their families are fed.
NEWSMAN: Among the causes-- low wages, frequent moves,
high unemployment among military spouses.
How can they focus on the mission
when your family can't even survive?
Yeah, that's right. How can you fight a war if you're hungry?
It's never a good sign for your military
when everyone is trying to get transferred
to Colonel Sanders' unit.
I mean, at-at a certain point,
you realize the other side doesn't even need weapons
to defeat you. They can just hold up a bag of chips.
"Come and join the Taliban.
We have Flamin' Hot."
I mean, for real, think about it-- America spends
over $700 billion a year on the military,
and its soldiers are going hungry?
At the very least,
they could make some of those fighter jets edible.
Half of them can't even fly anyway.
You might as well deep-fry them.
And that's just-just how bad
food insecurity has become in America.
You know? Usually,
when people need help finding a meal,
they can turn to their local food bank.
But it turns out, it turns out things have gotten so bad
that food banks are facing the same problem as everyone else.
Food banks across the nation are facing yet another crisis
just before the holidays.
Organizers say supply chain issues and inflation
have led to a drop in donations.
They say that forced food banks to buy more items on their own
at higher prices.
And, of course, since the pandemic hit,
more people have been leaning on them for help.
We are basically competing with everyone else, as a pantry.
Right? Supermarkets.
Um, you know, the household consumer.
NEWSMAN: At El Pasoans Fighting Hunger,
demand has quadrupled since the pandemic started.
And now truckloads of food just aren't showing up
to their desert community.
So, we are struggling every day to find adequate supply.
And I've never seen anything like this.
NEWSWOMAN: One food bank director told MSNBC
that her food bank usually has 5,000 turkeys in their freezer
this time of the year.
This November, they had five.
Damn. Five turkeys
for thousands of people.
Even Jesus would be like,
"Well, I mean, I do miracles, but this? Come on, guys."
But, yes, the place that helps people
who are struggling to get food is struggling to get food.
Which is a really bad sign.
It's like a fire truck being on fire.
Or a firefighter being stuck up a tree.
"Just go down the way you came up!
Go down the way you went up!"
"I can't! I'm scared!"
So, right now in America, this is a real crisis.
And one person helping to solve this crisis
is Chef José Andrés.
His organization, the World Central Kitchen,
is on the front lines fighting against food insecurity,
and he joins us right now to talk about it.
Chef Andrés, welcome back to The Daily Show.
Thank you for having me.
Um, let's talk about this issue.
It seems like such a paradox.
And-and, honestly, I think, for many people,
their minds don't seem to grasp,
like, not what the problem is
but how there can be a problem in America.
How is it that at least 10% of America's population
is food insecure in a country
where something like 40% of the food goes wasted?
How is this possible?
So, Trevor, this is the conundrum we're facing,
not only in America but around the world.
-Mm. -The problem of hunger is real.
What happened is we don't know people that are hungry, right?
Because if, you and I, we know them,
the problem is fairly simple--
we share with them what we have
and the problem is solved.
So hunger is a problem
that actually has a very simple solution.
Let's put democracy, let's put our government,
the institutions at the service of making sure
that hunger is a problem of the past.
Because, yes, there's enough food to feed everybody.
We need to make sure that food stops being the problem
but food actually becomes the solution of having,
-you know, a community, a society... -Right, right, right.
...that keeps looking forward to the future
one plate of food at a time.
Now, have you-- have you come across any specific models
that work better than others?
I mean, you know, you've been in disaster zones
helping people get food,
everywhere from Puerto Rico to-to Texas.
You know, you've been in situations
where people don't have the infrastructure
to get the food, and so,
you have to find a way to build that.
Or there are people who are just food insecure,
and they don't have the meals,
but they do have the infrastructure.
Is there a catch-all that works,
or does each city and each place need
to find something that works for them?
What-what is the solution, from your perspective?
Obviously, it's not one solution
that just covers everything and everywhere.
Every community will need its own response.
But let me show you what we did with World Central Kitchen.
In the moment that the entire restaurant system
was shutting down all across America,
what we did at World Central Kitchen was very simple.
If you need to stop a fire, you send the firefighters.
If you need to feed people,
who you should be putting in charge of achieving this?
Cooks, restaurants.
How many tens of thousands of restaurants
we don't have in America? In the moment
that they were shut down,
what World Central Kitchen did was simple.
Let's partner with them.
We had more than 3,000 restaurants in our system.
-Wow. -And let's-- one restaurant at a time--
be feeding the elderly homes, the homeless shelters,
the hospitals, who... whatever was in need of a plate of food.
What we did was keeping the system working.
We put the money that people were giving to us
at the service of feeding American people.
We didn't only solve the problem.
We kept the system working.
The restaurants could keep employing their cooks.
The restaurants could keep paying the rent.
The restaurants could keep paying the farmers.
What we did was keeping the system wholly,
-360 degrees, not only feeding the hungry... -Right.
...but maintaining the economy up and running.
When you look at the challenges that people face,
whether it's food deserts, you know, whether it's trying
to find food banks that give people food
that is actually good for them,
that presents a different challenge.
And I know that that's something
that you're very passionate about.
What can we do to improve those conditions for people
so that they can eat something that can help them?
Let's take a look at something so simple
that does so much good.
SNAP-- what people know as food stamps.
When a single mother, maybe with three, four children
that is working outside the home and has to feed their children,
with food stamps, she gets the help she needs
to make sure that puts food on the table
as she can take care of education for the children,
the health issues that they may have, etcetera, etcetera.
But take a look at what happens.
If we only give her money to buy food, and all of a sudden,
in the community that woman lives,
-she has no supermarket to buy fresh foods... -Mm.
and she has to go ten, 20, 30 minutes away
to another community that maybe's a richer community.
If all of a sudden, we make that the federal government
supports the ending of food deserts in America,
that woman will be able to buy locally
with the same money of solving the problem of hunger,
we are helping the economy to become more productive,
creating jobs, helping that woman to live
in a community that actually she's proud of.
All of a sudden, we don't only end hunger,
we don't only end food deserts,
but we make one community at the time better.
This is a way we need to be... start thinking
in smarter ways to end hunger.
Not only you throwing money at the problem...
-Right. -...but investing in smart solutions
that make one community at the time better.
I love that. Man, you're just showing how,
like, the food chain impacts every single aspect of society.
And if we figure that out, we can help to try
and impact more parts of society.
Um, Chef José, thank you so much
for joining me again on the show.
Good luck with everything that you're doing.
You know, at the end of the show, we're going
to give people information on how they can help
with your organization,
which may end up helping them one day.
So thank you so much for taking the time.
Trevor, thank you.
Let's all think about building longer tables,
not higher walls, and the world will be a better place.
Thank you so much, Chef. Have a good one.
All right, when we come back, we'll take a look back
at everyone who ghosted us in 2021. You don't want to miss it.
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
2021 is almost over, and I think we can all agree
that, compared to last year,
it has been a pretty perfect year.
So for the rest of the month, we'll be remembering
all of 2021's best moments in our year-end segment,
A Look Back at 2021:
The Least Bad Year of the Last Two Years.
Tonight, Dulcé Sloan looks back
at all the exits of the year.
♪ ♪
Hello, friends!
2021 was a lot of things, but more than anything,
it was the year of exits.
Everyone was exiting something.
People were exiting their jobs.
Deontay Wilder exited consciousness.
Even Bill Cosby got out of jail.
And that was an exit that nobody wanted.
And you might have thought the most expensive exit of the year
was Bill and Melinda Gates' divorce.
But you're forgetting a much bigger separation
that cost more money than Microsoft Boy
could ever dream of.
After nearly 20 years, the last U.S. troops
have left Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
Obviously, the end of a chapter,
uh, for America's Forever War.
NEWSMAN: The total cost, they've estimated,
is $2.261 trillion.
Damn!
$2.61 trillion?
Oh! I hope America paid for that on a credit card,
because those points will come in handy
when we're booking flights to the next country we invade.
Does Iran take Chase Sapphire?
I guess we'll find out.
But yes, after 20 long years,
the U.S. finally left Afghanistan.
And you know it's really over because America
didn't even "accidentally" leave a toothbrush behind
so we'd have an excuse to go back.
"Whoops. Silly me.
"But maybe while I'm over,
we can try some nation-building again?" (chuckles)
And while no breakup is ever easy,
this one was handled especially poorly.
Although not as poorly as my last breakup.
You think Afghanistan was bad?
You try telling me you want to see other people.
You don't need to withdraw from my apartment.
I'm throwing your ass out the window myself.
Where was I?
Oh, yes. While our troops were exiting Afghanistan,
some of the richest Americans couldn't wait to exit America.
And they weren't going to the normal rich people places
like Monaco or Fiji or Jeffrey Epstein's island.
No, they were exiting the Earth's atmosphere.
NEWSMAN: Billionaires in space.
Richard Branson going where no billionaire has gone before.
NEWSMAN 2: 24 hours from now,
Jeff Bezos will be launching to the heavens.
NEWSMAN 3: SpaceX senior director said the company
actually saw an increase in inquiries
from people who wanted to buy a private spacecraft.
So, clearly, there are a lot of rich people out there,
much richer than the rest of us.
Well, first of all, this is relatable.
After a year of lockdown,
I was ready to blast into space, too.
And these billionaires don't even live next to an apartment
with a poodle yapping all damn day!
Just poop in the house, Mr. Sprinkles.
Nobody cares. Your owners is nasty anyway.
Still, can't get these rich dudes to calm down?
I guess, for these guys, you're not rich
unless everyone knows you're rich.
Humans, Martians, Klingons,
them worms from Dune,
whatever the hell Chewbacca is-- everybody!
Now, what I don't understand is why their rockets keep going up
and then landing back on Earth again.
If you're gonna get the (bleep) out,
get the (bleep) out.
You keep coming and going.
Listen, Earth's gonna start charging you a cover charge.
And, no, we're not giving you a wristband either.
You're gonna have to pay every time you come back in.
But not everyone's exit was voluntary.
Take former President Donald Trump.
No, I'm not talking about him getting kicked out
of the White House.
I'm talking about him getting kicked off
of a place he cared about a lot more,
social media.
Well, they did it.
Donald Trump has officially been kicked off Twitter.
In the wake of Wednesday's siege right here at the Capitol,
the social media giant announced late Friday
that Trump is now permanently suspended from the platform.
NEWSWOMAN: A long list of social media sites
have now either banned or restricted President Trump,
including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Spotify.
Yeah! Ha-ha!
Trump got booted from basically every social media site
in January.
And you know why.
Which is kind of a shame,
because it deprived us of what might have been
the funniest milk crate challenge of all time.
(overlapping shouting)
(exclaiming, gasping)
(cackles)
I mean, he even got kicked off of Spotify.
I know Trump did a lot of damage as president,
but what could he have possibly done on Spotify?
Were they scared he'd start a podcast?
Because Lord knows, we wouldn't want anyone on Spotify
hyping up middle-aged white men with misinformation.
While billionaires were exiting gravity,
and Trump was exiting Twitter,
Americans were exiting their damn minds.
I know nobody likes wearing masks and getting a shot,
but some of y'all were embarrassing yourselves.
-This is tyranny, and this is wrong? -MAN: Be quiet!
If we don't stand up, it's only gonna get worse.
We don't need a mask! I have a right to my pizza.
You gave me one (bleep) warning. One warning!
(applause and cheering)
Sit! You sit down in that seat, and you stay there.
Joe Biden?! Really!
(growling)
What in the hell?!
When did every American become a mix between
Mel Gibson in Braveheart,
and Mel Gibson after his arrest?
And for what? Because the mask feels itchy
on your shitty goatee? Come on, dude.
I'll tell you who I feel bad for--
those poor flight attendants.
How do you lose your damn mind to the point
where you assault the person
that's supposed to save you in a plane crash?
I know if somebody got an attitude on my plane,
I have no problem opening the door
and letting their ass get sucked out. (laughs)
You found the right one today.
So there you have it. Those are the biggest exits of 2021.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to make an exit of my own.
Got to exit my apartment and find a new place.
I'm done living next to Mr. Sprinkles!
You win, you yapping-ass dog! Ugh!
So does anyone know of a one-bedroom apartment
where the neighbor is not a poodle?
Two-bedroom?
Three-bedroom?
I have money! I'm currently on TV!
-No? -♪ ♪
Racist.
Thank you so much for that, Dulcé.
All right, when we come back, we'll be joined
by the star of the new hit show, Foundation,
Lou Llobell. You don't want to miss it.
Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight
is actor Lou Llobell.
She's here to talk about her starring role
in the new Apple TV+ series Foundation.
Come with me.
We'd be lost out there.
I love you.
Go, child.
And then... all hell breaks loose.
Lou Llobell, welcome to the show.
Thank you for having me, Trevor. I'm so happy to be here.
Oh, I'm happy to have you here, because, you know,
it's rare that you meet people,
like, right at the beginning of what I believe will be,
like, just an amazing career.
You're not just a fantastic actor, but you're on a show
that has just been renewed for a second season.
-Congratulations. -Yes. Thank you very much.
Let's start with that. Foundation, the show.
What did you know about it before you auditioned
to be part of, like, this mega-franchise
that Apple is building now?
I mean, I didn't know much about it.
I told my dad, when I got the audition,
that I had this audition for a sci-fi called Foundation,
and he was like... (gasps)
"I love it!"
He had read all the books. He was like,
"You know, me and Asimov have the same PhD,"
da-da-da-da-da.
And I think actually that's what got me my second audition,
'cause I mentioned that in the first audition,
-and they were like, "We love that!" -Wow.
And it worked, so thank you, Dad, for that.
(laughs) But yeah, it's so exciting.
So I didn't know this before I started watching it,
but I didn't know that the-the books that it's based on
are actually the books that inspired Star Wars.
-Yeah. -What I love is that your story
is almost as interesting as your character's story.
Because I meet few people
who I think are as much citizens of the world as you are.
You are born in Spain. Your father's Spanish.
-Yeah, I was born in Zimbabwe. -Right? Born in Zimbabwe?
-Yes. -Okay, lived in Spain.
-Mm-hmm. -All right, so, father's Spanish.
-Mom is Zimbabwean. Right. -Zimbabwean. Mm-hmm.
-So you were born in Zimbabwe. Lived in Spain. -Lived... Yeah.
-Then moved to South Africa. -When I was eight.
Okay. Then you live in South Africa.
-Then you move to the U.K. -Yeah.
Because, you know, the world... For those who don't know,
Foundation is this... is this...
It's, like, this future dystopian
but not dystopian world
where everything is ending but possibly beginning.
And your character plays, you know, in many ways,
like you said, your version of life.
-She's going to be everywhere. -LLOBELL: For sure.
NOAH: That must have tied in in a cool way.
Yeah, it's-it's pretty amazing. I, uh...
Also, like, leaving home, South Africa...
-Yes, exactly. -...to move to the U.K.
to do this job and to... and to, you know,
work really hard to try and do this,
which I thought is something I wanted to do with my life,
-and I feel very grateful to be here. -Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
I mean, I'm sure that you have a similar, you know, experience.
Like, your career has taken off.
-Right. -I mean, I remember, like, ten years ago...
Sorry, I have to bring this up.
But, like, you did a show in Pietermaritzburg
-where I'm... That's where I grew up. -Yes.
-Uh-huh. -And I remember watching that and being like...
and then watching your career, like, explode.
And I was like, "Oh, my goodness."
-Oh, well, thank you. -That's so cool.
-Thank you very much. -Like, you were really a role model,
and it made me believe I could do that,
-coming from a place like South Africa. -Oh, wow.
-You know? And... Yeah. -Thank you very much for that.
-And I'm hoping that I can do... -Had I known that you were
watching my career like that, that I would've thought
it was too much pressure,
and I would've just failed on purpose
-to get out from under the thing. -(laughs)
-But thank you for that. -No, but it's true.
I think, like, people that come from where we come from,
a country like South Africa, it kind of can seem a bit...
you know, that you can't reach the stars
-and reach everything else. -Yeah. Yeah.
And, you know, I hope to be an inspiration
-for people, as well. As you are. -I think...
-I think you are already. Genuinely. -(laughs)
Because that's what I love about, like, Foundation
and the story is it's this world where it's, like,
somebody who is told that they're in a small world,
and small can go on to become something so big.
-Exactly. -You know, you're playing this huge role.
I-I was fascinated by this, though.
Like, is it true that the audition process
-was, like, five days? -Yeah, so, I did, like, three rounds.
And the last one was five days in Ireland in Limerick,
which is a-- if you know Ireland--
-is a very small, little town. -Right.
Um, and it was six of us going up for the same role.
And we-- Well, they tried to keep us apart,
but we all kind of found each other.
I mean, it's not very difficult in Limerick,
'cause, I mean, there was, like, a bunch
-of us brown girls. -(laughing)
And so we literally came out of the hotel,
and we'd, like, get-- go for breakfast and be like,
-"You?" -"You must be..."
-You know, like the-the Spider-Man meme. -Yes. Yes.
-(laughing) -Um...
And it was amazing. It was--
Of course, we were all, like, kind of competing.
But we found this, like, weird connection.
Because we were all women of color
in a situation which we don't usually find ourselves.
-Which is, like, in a sci-fi audition. -Yeah.
-Very often. -Especially-- Yeah, yeah.
Um, and there were six of us.
And it was, like, the most incredible,
like, inspiring, you know, thing.
And we would-- We have a group chat.
-We-we... -Wait, like, you-you guys are still friends?
Yeah. We still text, yeah.
And, um, they're all brilliant actresses.
And it was just, like, the most amazing experience.
It was tough and harrowing.
-Right. -(chuckles) Don't get me wrong.
But it was a cool environment, actually.
Let's talk a little bit about that part of it.
Because you have women who are playing roles
-that were, in the book, men. -Mm-hmm.
And then, obviously, race almost becomes irrelevant
in the casting of the people, which makes it more interesting.
Was that refreshing for you to play a role
where it was just like, oh, it's about you being
-a math genius who happens to be brown. -Completely.
Exac-- Brown and a woman,
-which I don't think is very, you know... -Right.
And it's amazing to be able to be this powerful woman,
young woman, in this world which is run by white men,
-you know, in that world. -Right, right, right.
-(chuckles) Not this... -Not-not this world, of course.
-Not this world. -No, no, we're talking
-about the fictitious world. -Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(laughs) But, um, yeah.
So we... (stammers)
And it's amazing to be able to do that
and show that there's power in, like,
working things out with your brain
and not just, like, a physical, you know,
fighting and stuff, which is still pretty cool, I think.
-Yeah. -But yeah. So that was really great.
What I wanted to know is
how many people have noticed you
-playing a cameo in the show? -(chuckles)
-It is you, right? -I'm in the background of episode three.
-Yes. -It's when Hugo, like, flies in
and the kids, like, running past... and they run past me.
-Right. -They did a very good job of making me someone else.
-Okay, okay. Okay. -Because I am not Gaal in that scene.
But I was so desperate to be on that set
because that set was, like, literally life-sized.
You know, none of that was VFX.
Like, except for the ship coming in...
-Yeah. -...it was all, like, real.
-Um... -So you just wanted to go there?
I just wanted to be on that set,
and I begged David Goyer and Alex Graves.
I was like, "Please let me," and they did,
which was amazing. And if you look very carefully,
-you can see me in the background. -I like that.
Thank you so much for joining me on the show.
-Thank you for having me. -And congratulations
-on all your success. -Thank you.
All right, season one of Foundation is available
right now on Apple TV+.
We're gonna take a quick break,
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