Best Of: 'The Pitt' Star Noah Wyle / 'Sinners' Director Ryan Coogler

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🗓️ 26 April 2025

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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ryan Coogler's movies include both Black Panther films and Creed. His latest fillm, Sinners, is a vampire thriller about twins, both played by Michael B. Jordan, opening a juke joint in 1930s Mississippi. The film explores race, faith, and American history through the lens of horror.

Also, Noah Wyle talks about his starring role in the MAX series The Pitt, about life at a Pittsburgh hospital emergency room. He also played a doctor on the long-running hit ER.

Plus, contributor Carolina Miranda reviews Laila Lalami's suspenseful new novel, The Dream Hotel.

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0:25.6	From W.H.Y.Y. In Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. Today, filmmaker
0:32.9	Ryan Coogler. His films include both Black Panther films and Creed. His latest movie, Sinners, is a vampire
0:40.7	thriller about twins, both played by Michael B. Jordan, opening a juke joint in 1930s, Mississippi.
0:48.0	The film explores themes of race, faith, and American history through the lens of horror.
0:56.2	They got to be killed one by one.
0:57.6	How the hell do we do that?
1:02.4	Sunlight, I wouldn't state at all.
1:07.9	Also, Noah Wiley talks with us about his starring role in the TV series The Pit,
1:11.5	about life at a Pittsburgh hospital emergency room.
1:17.6	Plus, contributor Carolina Miranda reviews Leila Lalami's suspenseful new novel.
1:22.3	That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
1:47.7	This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. Today, my guest is filmmaker Ryan Coogler. You probably know his name as the director of Fruitvale Station, Creed, and both Black Panther films. Well, his new film is called Sinners, and it hit theaters just last week. It delves into horror with a genre-bending thriller set in 1930s Mississippi.
1:53.2	The story follows, twin brothers, Smoke and Stack, both played by Michael B. Jordan.
1:58.8	After surviving the trenches of World War I and navigating Chicago's criminal underworld,
2:02.3	the brothers return home to Mississippi, hoping to start fresh by opening a juke joint. But peace does not last long. Instead, they're met by supernatural
2:09.9	forces, vampires, who act as metaphors for oppression, exploitation, and systems that feed on
2:16.9	black life, body, and spirit.
2:19.6	I only ever heard stories. I ain't ever come across them myself.
2:23.0	What stories you heard? How Haynes work. They switch places with the soul of a man.
2:29.4	But vampires is different. Maybe the worst kind. The soul gets stuck in the body.
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