Working: How Actor Blair Underwood Gets Inside His Characters Heads
This week host Isaac Butler talks to actor Blair Underwood about performing for the stage and screen. In the interview, Blair talks about landing a role on the legal drama L.A. Law when he was still an undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon. He also explains how he prepares for roles and how he gets in the right mindset to play tormented characters.\xa0\nAfter the interview, Isaac and co-host Rumaan Alam discuss the mysterious craft of acting.\xa0\nIn the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Blair tells the story of the time he found himself sitting next to Sidney Poitier on a flight from New York to L.A.\xa0\nSend your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675.\xa0\nPodcast production by Cameron Drews.\nIf you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence\u2014and you\u2019ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now\xa0to help support our work.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices