Podcasts News In The Thick #51: Getting Into GET OUT (With Lakeith Stanfield and Jay Smooth)

#51: Getting Into GET OUT (With Lakeith Stanfield and Jay Smooth)

Published: Feb. 28, 2017, 11:23 p.m.

51: Getting Into GET OUT (With Special Guests Lakeith Stanfield and Jay Smooth)\n\n

When was the last time you sat in a movie theater cowering in fear, then the next minute you\u2019re laughing \u2014 and the whole time you\u2019re getting schooled about racial fear in a \u201cpost-racial America?\u201d For us, at In The Thick, it was this past weekend, when we saw Get Out, the #1 movie in the U.S.

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We sat down with Lakeith Stanfield of Get Out (and FX\u2019s Atlanta) and viral social commentator/video blogger Jay Smooth to tackle the movie\u2019s perception of white liberals, the theme of co-opting black bodies, and the relationship of fear and humor.

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