![]() WASHINGTON: (As Stallworth) It's our business. WASHINGTON: (As Stallworth) Then why you acting like you ain't got skin in the game, brother?ĭRIVER: (As Flip) Rookie, that's my business. Doesn't that hatred you've been hearing the Klan say - doesn't that piss you off? It's what some light-skinned black folks do. You've been passing for a WASP - White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, cherry pie, hot dog white boy. WASHINGTON: (As Stallworth) Because you're Jewish, brother - the so-called chosen people. WASHINGTON: (As Stallworth) Why haven't you bought into this? What's your problem?ĭRIVER: (As Flip) That's my problem. ![]() WASHINGTON: (As Stallworth) This is the job. WASHINGTON: (As Stallworth) Flip, it's intel.ĭRIVER: (As Flip) Well, I'm not risking my life to prevent some rednecks from lighting a couple sticks on fire. JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON: (As Stallworth) And he didn't.ĭRIVER: (As Flip) But he could have, and then I would've been dead - for what? Stopping some jerk from playing dress up? And he was an ass hair away from pulling the trigger. John David Washington plays Stallworth and Adam Driver plays Flip Zimmerman, the white Jewish cop who ends up meeting with the Klan and being less than comfortable with the situation and the danger involved.ĪDAM DRIVER: (As Flip) I didn't want to say it with Trapp, but that peckerwood had a gun in my face. When they invite him in, he gets around the obvious skin tone problem by getting a white cop to stand in for him in person while he continues to deal with the Klan by phone. ![]() ![]() Ron Stallworth, an African American cop in Colorado, managed to infiltrate the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in 1979 by answering an ad by phone asking how to join. "BlacKkKlansman" is based on a very improbable true story. Later on, we'll visit with Paul Schrader, the writer-director whose movie "First Reformed" has him nominated for best original screenplay, the first time he's ever been nominated, even though his other screenplays include "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull." We'll start with Spike Lee whose flim "BlacKkKlansman" is nominated for, among other categories, Best Picture and Best Director, the first time Lee has competed in either of those categories. Our guests today are two Hollywood veterans who are getting some of the first major Oscar nominations of their long careers. We're continuing our series of interviews with some of this year's Oscar nominees. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. ![]()
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