Danielle Brooks
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Sep 26, 2026
Christy LemireHOST
Lewis Cook,
Alonso DuraldeHOST
a club member for 34 months, asks, have either of you seen If I Go, They Will Miss Me, starring Daniel Brooks? I got to see it yesterday and found it to be such a beautifully poignant film about family and generational trauma.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
I only just saw the poster for that the first time.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
I am just now hearing about it.
Christy LemireHOST
It's really good.
Christy LemireHOST
It's really well acted.
Christy LemireHOST
Daniel Brooks is great in it.
Christy LemireHOST
A lot of people who live in this actual project are some of the background players and minor players in the film.
Shane ContoHOST
legitimately I was blown away by this movie and it's total disregard for what you should expect from a narrative structure and just the acting and the characters are fascinating Matthew McConaughey really makes an impact in it and let's see I just watched this very beautiful film just the other day.
Shane ContoHOST
If I go, will they miss me? Danielle Brooks stars in it too, as the wife to this man who, this black man who gets out of prison and really struggles to connect with his son.
Shane ContoHOST
Who's, you know, nerdy and creative.
Shane ContoHOST
And he's just like, you got to be a man.
Danielle RobayHOST
It's time to question everything.
Danielle RobayHOST
In 2022, Whoopi Goldberg looked Danielle Brooks in the eye and told her, "You are everything we want a great to be." Now, if you know her work, that tracks.
Danielle RobayHOST
At 22 years old, Danielle was cast as Taystee on Orange Is the New Black, the show that helped make Netflix, Netflix.
Danielle RobayHOST
And it launched nearly its entire cast into global superstardom.
Danielle RobayHOST
She is really funny.
Danielle RobayHOST
Wait for the last girls night in card that she pulls.
Danielle RobayHOST
So Danielle Brooks has spent her whole career waiting for someone else to call action.
Danielle RobayHOST
So I think the question we're circling today is, what happens when you finally call it yourself? It's Time to Question Everything with Danielle Brooks.
Noni JuiceHOST
I think she's been focusing on acting as well, because she just was in The Color Purple.
Noni JuiceHOST
She had a, a smaller role in The Color Purple when it came out, I wanna say a couple years ago, with, uh, I think Taraji P. Henson was leading that, along with Danielle Brooks.
Noni JuiceHOST
But she also is doing, like, voice animations in movies and things like that.
Noni JuiceHOST
So she really has just been off the grid, off the scene, I think just really coming into her own because when she first released those very first mixtapes or albums, whatever she wants to call them, the H. E.R. Volume One back in like 2016, we didn't know who she was because the silhouette of the album...
Elise SharpHOST
And one thing you mentioned earlier was also sometimes there's this like barrier of people thinking that their voices can't do Shakespeare.
Elise SharpHOST
But I find as a modern audience, some of my favorite Shakespeare productions are ones where like, what is it, the public much ado with Daniel Brooks.
Elise SharpHOST
all of those actors leaned into who they are and brought their voice and their body to the work.
Elise SharpHOST
And it's such a lovely, enjoyable production of Much Ado.
Len WebbHOST
And one of my favorite actors as his co-star, Danelle Brooks.
Vincent WilliamsHOST
Daniel Brooks has been one of my favorite actors since Orange is the New Black.
Len WebbHOST
Yeah.
Len WebbHOST
It's a film that is about a 12-year-old named Little Ant and how he attempts to connect with his father while experiencing mysterious visions.
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Josh JohnsonHOST
[audience cheering] My guest tonight is an Oscar-nominated actor and Grammy Award winner who produce and stars in the new film, If I Go, Will They Miss Me? Please welcome Danielle Brooks.
Josh JohnsonHOST
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Danielle BrooksGUEST
Oh, yeah.
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Danielle BrooksGUEST
Thank you.
Josh JohnsonHOST
I'm very excited for y'all to see it.
Josh JohnsonHOST
One more time for Danielle Brooks.
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Colin KaepernickGUEST
Why would that be an issue for anybody to say we want police to stop killing Black people?
Tonya MosleyHOST
Also actor Danielle Brooks.
Tonya MosleyHOST
She first became known as Taystee on Orange Is the New Black.
Tonya MosleyHOST
While shooting the series, she also auditioned for the Broadway revival of The Color Purple.
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Tonya MosleyHOST
Colin Kaepernick's memoir is called The Perilous Fight.
Tonya MosleyHOST
[upbeat music] Terry has our next interview.
Terry GrossHOST
When Danielle Brooks started appearing in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black as the character Taystee, she was astonished to find she was recognized wherever she went.
Terry GrossHOST
Orange was about women in prison, and Brooks played one of those women.
Willie GeistHOST
That was a look at the powerful new film, If I Go, Will They Miss Me? It centers around a family in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, and the relationship between a 12-year-old boy and his recently paroled father, who has just returned home from a lengthy stint in prison.
Willie GeistHOST
Joining us now, one of the film's stars and executive producers, Danielle Brooks.
Willie GeistHOST
Danielle, thank you so much for being here.
Willie GeistHOST
Congratulations on this.
Danielle BrooksGUEST
I'm sorry.
Danielle BrooksGUEST
I'm sorry about all of it.
Willie GeistHOST
The new film titled, If I Go, Will They Miss Me? Actress and executive producer Danielle Brooks, who has a whole host of projects coming up in the months ahead.
Danielle BrooksGUEST
[laughs]
Carol NormandinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Emily wouldn't have been on a freeway to have been hit by a car if Uber... hadn't put her there
Deborah RobertsHOST
and what their legal battle could mean for you plus royal drama princess diana's brother spilling the tea in his new book what was going on behind the scenes with the royal family after diana's death and danielle brooks back on the big screen in a poignant new drama i read
Danielle BrooksGUEST
through
Deborah RobertsHOST
all of those
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Harry, Harry, how are you feeling about your uncle's book?
Deborah RobertsHOST
Our thanks to Lama.
Deborah RobertsHOST
When we come back, we're one-on-one with Danielle Brooks, now back on the big screen.
Deborah RobertsHOST
The actress who broke out in Orange is the New Black, revealing why she nearly turned down that life-changing role.
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