Best Of: Boots Riley / Will Sharpe
5/16/202648 min
Boots Riley talks about his new film, ‘I Love Boosters.' It stars Keke Palmer as the leader of a crew of women shoplifters who steal from luxury stores and sell the goods cheap to people who can't afford retail. Riley says he thinks of his work labor organizing, filmmaking and writing hip-hop music as the same project.
Also, we’ll hear from actor Will Sharpe. He starred in season two of ‘The White Lotus,’ Lena Dunham’s series ‘Too Much,’ and the movie ‘A Real Pain.’ Now he plays Mozart in a new adaptation of ‘Amadeus.’
TV critic David Bianculli reviews a new special by David Attenborough.
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Tonya Mosley· Host0:23
[upbeat music] From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tonya Mosley. Today, Boots Riley. His new film is called I Love Boosters, and it stars Keke Palmer as the leader of a crew of women shoplifters who steal from luxury stores and sell the goods cheap to people who can't afford retail. 20 years before the film, Riley wrote a song by the same name with his hip hop group The Coup. The song is a love letter to shoplifters, or boosters as they're called, which he says he knows a thing or two about.
Boots Riley· Guest0:55
Well, I have been a broke rapper for a long time- [laughs] ... having to stay fly, you know, just a job requirement.
Tonya Mosley· Host1:04
Also, we'll hear from actor Will Sharpe. He starred in Lena Dunham's series Too Much and the film A Real Pain, and now he stars as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a new adaptation of Amadeus. And David Bianculli reviews a new special by David Attenborough. That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend. This is Fresh Air Weekend.