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  • ONE OF YOUR BREAK THROUGH ROLES WAS THE BRILLIANT MOVIE SELMA,

  • AND YOU SCREENED THE MOVIE.

  • YOU HAD A SCREENING FOR THAT FILM WITH THE OBMAS AT THE

  • WHITE HOUSE.

  • BUT YOU ALMOST MISSED THIS INCREDIBLE DAY.

  • WHAT HAPPENED?

  • >> YES.

  • OKAY, THIS IS A TRUE STORY.

  • >> James: AS OPPOSED TO THE MYRIAD OF LIES YOU HAVE SPUN

  • TONIGHT.

  • >> YEAH, YEAH.

  • OKAY.

  • SO I AM SITTING AT HOME, I GET THIS EMAIL, THE SUBJECT MATTER

  • IS THE WHITE HOUSE.

  • SO I OPEN IT AND IT SAYS BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA WOULD LIKE TO

  • INVITE TO YOU A SPECIAL SCREENING OF SELMA.

  • AND THE ONLY THING YOU NEED TO DO TO ATTEND IS SEND A PICTURE

  • OF YOUR PASSPORT, YOUR NAME, DATE OF BIRTH, YOUR SOCIAL

  • SECURITY.

  • SO I WAS LOOKING AT THIS LINING LIKE MY SOCIAL SECURITY, LIKE

  • PRETTY PRETTY SHIFTY.

  • SO I SENT IT TO MY JUNK, I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT TWO DAYS LATER

  • I GET A CALL FROM MY AGENT.

  • HEY, STEPHAN DID YOU GET A CALL OR AN EMAIL FROM THE WHITE

  • HOUSE.

  • AND I SAID YEAH, YEAH, I DID HE IS LIKE THAT IS TOTALLY REAL AND

  • YOU NEED TO REPLY RIGHT NOW IF YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF IT.

  • SO NEXT THING YOU KNOW I'M LIKE ON A PLANE TO D.C., KICKING IT

  • WITH MICHELLE AND BARACK OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE THEATER

  • (APPLAUSE).

  • >> James: WHAT'S IT LIKE?

  • WHAT IS THE WHITE HOUSE THEATER LIKE?

  • >> OH, MAN, IT SURPRISINGLY IT'S SMALL, IT'S QUAINT.

  • I JUST REMEMBER THE OBAMA'S BEING SO NICE.

  • MICHELLE WAS JUST LIKE, THE POPCORN IS OVER THERE SWEETIE,

  • THE REST ROOM SOAFER THERE, MAKE YOUR SEVERE AT HOME.

  • JUST VERY HOSPITALLABLE, I JOAN JOYED IT.

  • >> HAVE YOU BEEN.

  • >> YEAH, I HAVE BEEN.

  • WE SCREENED-- YEAH, IT IS.

  • >> ST SMALL.

  • >> IT IS TINY.

  • I WAS REALLY, YEAH.

  • >> James: I WAS GOBSMACKED, HERE IS THE THING I THOUGHT, I

  • WILL TELL YOU WHAT I THOUGHT, IT IS SMALLER THAN I THOUGHT.

  • >> I THOUGHT IT WAS TINY.

  • >> James: WHEN I WAS THERE, FOR INTO THE WOODS, I WAS LIKE

  • THIS IS.

  • >> YEAH.

  • >> James: SMALLER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE.

  • >> IT WAS NICE, BUT SMALL.

  • >> James: THE OTHER THING I THOUGHT, THE POPCORN WAS OVER

  • THERE AND THE REST ROOM WAS AROUND THE CORNER.

  • >> I DID TOO.

  • >> James: THAT WAS MY OVERWHELMING.

  • >> BUT THEY WERE UPBEAT.

  • >> James: THEY ARE A JOY BOMB.

  • >> THEY ARE LOVELY.

  • >> MY CELEBRITY CRUSHES.

  • >> GOOD PEOPLE.

  • >> I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THIS, THIS IS SOMETHING I THINK

  • IS GOOD, AND I THINK ABOUT DOING A LOT.

  • YOU KEEP YOUR CELL PHONE OFF FOR MOST OF THE DAY.

  • IS THIS TRUE?

  • >> SOMETIMES I-- SOMETIMES I LEAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT TAKING

  • IT.

  • SWRZ ON PURPOSE.

  • >> ON PURPOSE, YES.

  • >> James: DOES IT NOT ANNOY YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR FAMILY?

  • >> THEY DON'T TELL ME THAT IT ANNOYS ME BUT BACKSTAGE I WAS

  • TOLD FINALLY THAT IT IS A ANNOYS FOR PEOPLE, THAT IS WHY.

  • >> OH MY EMAILS.

  • >> I DO IT BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN PEOPLE

  • DIDN'T CARRY CELL PHONES AROUND ALL THE TIME AND IF I WASN'T

  • HOME, YOU DIDN'T GET ME.

  • AND I NEED THAT TIME SOMETIMES.

  • SO I JUST SORT OF TAKE TAKE IT FOR MYSELF, YOU KNOW WHAT I

  • MEAN.

  • >> James: I LOVE THAT.

  • (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE).

  • >> James: I LOVE THAT.

  • I AM THINKING ABOUT GOING BACK TO A DUMB PHONE.

  • >> MI TOO.

  • IT WAS BETTER THEN THOUGH, I AGREE.

  • >> I'M NOT CRAZY, I'M NOT TAKING A HIKE INTO THE DESERT, INTO THE

  • CAVES, LIKE, IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO ME, NOBODY KNOWS

  • WHERE I AM, IT IS LIKE I'M WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKE ARE YOU WITH

  • HIM RIGHT NOW, LIKE ST KIND OF LIKE THAT, SO YOU CAN FIND ME,

  • IF YOU ARE A LOVED ONE OR FRIEND, YOU CAN FIND ME.

  • >> James: ARE YOU LIKE THE A TEAM.

  • >> YES.

  • >> James: IF WE NEED YOU, AND IF WE CAN FIND YOU, MAYBE WE

  • SHOULD CALL CHADWICK BOSEMAN.

  • STICK AROUND, MORE WITH THESE THREE WHEN WE COME BACK.

ONE OF YOUR BREAK THROUGH ROLES WAS THE BRILLIANT MOVIE SELMA,

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