Uzo Aduba on creating a White House murder mystery
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
White House reporter Cleve Wootson interviews Uzo Aduba today on “Post Reports” about the new Netflix show “The Residence,” and the real dynamics the fictional show reveals.
Read Sonia Rao’s story about “The Residence.” She says it's “Clue,” set on Pennsylvania Avenue, with a Shondaland touch. You can also read our TV critic Lili Loofbourow’s review.
Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Maggie Penman.
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| 0:00.0 | You want me to tell them they can't leave? |
| 0:03.6 | Yes, Mr. President. |
| 0:04.4 | Everyone? |
| 0:05.0 | Yes. |
| 0:06.0 | The Prime Minister of Australia? |
| 0:07.0 | Yes. |
| 0:08.0 | I think Prime Minister Rusk killed A.B. Winter? |
| 0:09.6 | Seems unlikely, but then finding a dead body on the third floor of the White House or a |
| 0:12.9 | state dinner seems unlikely too. |
| 0:15.9 | Why don't we let everyone go and then you can call back in the people that you need to talk to. Because if we let them all go, |
| 0:21.5 | then I won't know who I need to call back. Respectfully, Mr. President, this house needs to be treated |
| 0:26.1 | like a crime scene. We take statements at a crime scene. The best possible advantage we have is to |
| 0:30.3 | find out what people saw and heard when those things are freshest in their mind. Right now, |
| 0:34.5 | we have no idea who might have been involved in this. It could be someone from the staff, could be a guest, could be anybody. |
| 0:39.3 | This is for your security as much as anything else. |
| 0:42.3 | There may be a murderer out there or an hero. |
| 0:52.1 | Don't worry. |
| 0:53.2 | This is not the latest crazy news out of Washington. |
| 0:56.0 | This is a clip from the new Netflix show, The Residence. |
| 0:58.8 | It just came out, but I binged most of a press copy ahead of my interview last week with its star, Uzo Oduba. |
| 1:06.3 | I'm especially just a slight amount of outrage. |
| 1:08.3 | Netflix gave us. |
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