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Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair.

I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner.

And the Oscar goes to.

And the Oscar goes to the winner, it's a tie.

And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the teller, you never know.

Mom, I just want an Oscar.

I'm Rebecca Ford, and my guest today is Danielle Deadweiler, who stars in the piano lesson. The film is an adaptation of the 1987 play by August Wilson. It's directed by Malcolm

Washington, the son of Denzel Washington, in his directorial debut.

In it, Danielle Deadweiler plays Bernice Charles.

She's a widow and a mother who is battling with her brother, Boy Willie, played by John

David Washington, over the issue of selling their family piano.

The piano is more than an instrument.

It's a piece of their family history that Bernice is desperate to protect.

Now, Granddaddy, he called all of this.

But everything he made, Mr. Sutter owned, because he owned him.

Boy Charles talked about that piano all the time.

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