Best Of: Malala Yousafzai / Oscar Isaac
4/25/202648 min
Malala Yousafzai was 15 when a Taliban gunman shot her for advocating for girls' education in her native Pakistan. She understood that she was a target. “I had pictured it many times that this could happen. I had pictured it at school. I had pictured it in my school bus. I knew that the Taliban could do anything,” she told Terry Gross. Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize when she was just 17 years old. In an interview from a live event onstage, she talks about her childhood before the incident and finding herself after being in the public eye for so long.
Also, we hear from actor Oscar Isaac. He’s currently starring in the Netflix series ‘Beef' and recently played Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of ‘Frankenstein.’
Book critic Maureen Corrigan recommends three books for the spring: ‘Yesteryear,’ by Caro Claire Burke; ‘American Fantasy,’ by Emma Straub; and ‘Enormous Wings,’ by Laurie Frankel.
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Terry Gross· Host0:30
[on-hold music] From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend. Today, Malala Yousafzai. She was only eleven when she started to demand the right of girls to go to school after the Taliban invaded her town and banned girls' education. She was fifteen when she was shot by a Taliban gunman. Looking back now, does she think she understood the risk that she would become a Taliban target?
Malala Yousafzai· Guest0:58
I had pictured it many times that this could happen. I had pictured it at school. I had pictured it in my school bus. I had pictured it on the street. I knew that the Taliban could do anything.
Terry Gross· Host1:09
Also, we hear from actor Oscar Isaac. He's currently starring in the Netflix series Beef and recently played Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. And Maureen Corrigan recommends three books for spring reading.
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