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🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Wendell Pierce was on the verge of quitting acting after he graduated from Juilliard - but decided to "give it a year". Four decades on, he's one of the most celebrated character actors working today. Wendell speaks to James about his childhood in New Orleans, his big break in The Wire and the new series of his hit thriller series, Jack Ryan.
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0:49.5 | Thank you. Global Player Original Podcast Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast entirely to let me spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio with fascinating people. |
0:54.9 | Wendell Pierce, star of stage and screen, but also I have discovered while researching this |
1:00.1 | interview, a broadcaster, entrepreneur. A man of many, many talents. Thank you for coming |
1:04.8 | into it. Thank you for having me, thanks. We're generally work in a vaguely chronological way, |
1:09.7 | but we can jump around without any trouble. |
1:13.1 | I know you're only in London for a few days, but London has quite a big part to play in your story, doesn't it? |
1:18.5 | Absolutely. I first came here when I was 16 years old, and I saw, I went to the RSC. |
1:26.6 | I remember the production, |
1:28.0 | as you like it, |
1:28.7 | with Keith Nelligan in Stratford. |
1:31.5 | Then I saw The King and I with U. |
1:33.8 | Brinner, I think at the Palladium. |
1:35.5 | Wow. |
1:36.0 | The longest curtain call ever, |
1:37.6 | it was about 30 minutes. |
1:39.1 | And then I realized then I could be a professional actor, that there was a market. |
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