Asking me, “Do I have a favorite?” feels like asking me, quite frankly, if I have a favorite child. “The Real Housewives” I watch all of them, let me start there. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.ġ.

‘Drive My Car’: In this quiet Japanese masterpiece, a widower travels to Hiroshima to direct an experimental version of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.”Ĭalling from her dressing room between performances, Aduba discussed her cultural necessities, like getting into character with a playlist, winding down to “The Real Housewives” and curling up in a cozy robe, no matter where she is.

‘Passing’: Set in the 1920s, the movie centers on two African American women, friends from childhood, who can and do present as white.

‘Spencer’: Kristen Stewart stars as an anguished, rebellious Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s answer to “The Crown.”.

‘Summer of Soul’: Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Mavis Staples and others shine in Questlove’s documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival.

Scott and Manohla Dargis, selected their favorite movies of the year. The same could be said of her title role in the Broadway production of “Clyde’s,” about the ex-con proprietor of a truck-stop diner where all the cooks have done time. In “National Champions,” Aduba plays Katherine, a fixer hired to use whatever means necessary to get LeMarcus James (Stephan James) - a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback who incites a players’ strike three days before the national championship - back in the game.īut just as nobody is the villain in her own story, Aduba prefers to think of Katherine as a survivor tasked with a thankless job. “So I understood the complexity of the issue and the conversation.” collegiate athlete and recipient of a scholarship and have known, sadly, many people who have been a part of the system and have benefited positively, of course, from the academic element - and who have also had longtime needs they’ve not been able to meet,” she said. So when the script arrived for “National Champions,” about a battle between the National Collegiate Athletic Association and student football players demanding fair compensation for their talents, Aduba was fast onboard. America,” Uzo Aduba was winning medals as a star sprinter at Boston University. Before she was scooping up Emmys for “Orange Is the New Black” and “Mrs.

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