Yaphet Kotto
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Oct 22, 2026
Gabriel NathanGUEST
And it's just not.
Gabriel NathanGUEST
And some of the stories about Yafet and like, you know, this guy had, I think, a serious undiagnosed mental illness.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
Hmm.
Gabriel NathanGUEST
And some of the things that were allowed to happen, it's nobody stopping to question what are the safety issues here? What are our responsibilities to these human beings? And there are people who say, well, it was the times.
MikeHOST
Produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill.
MikeHOST
Starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto.
MikeHOST
Cinematography, Derek Vanlint.
MikeHOST
Edited by Terry Rawlings and Peter Weatherley.
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TristanHOST
Anyway, but he did a great job.
MikeHOST
Yeah.
MikeHOST
And then, uh, last but not least, uh, Yaphet Kotto as Parker.
MikeHOST
Uh, let's see what he's been in.
Brian SalisburyHOST
But my favorite thing is Jada Pinkett's like, "Okay, no, fuck you, Wes Craven.
Brian SalisburyHOST
If you're gonna kill two Black characters at the beginning of the movie, I'm going out like Yaphet Kotto in Truck Turner.
Brian SalisburyHOST
I am milking this thing for all it's worth [laughs] and having the longest, most dramatic death of any character in a Scream film" and God love her for it.
C. Robert CargillHOST
Absolutely.
Austin McCoyGUEST
He and three, like he and three others, so, uh, William Laughlin, who is played, um, by, let me...
Austin McCoyGUEST
He's played by Yaphet Kotto, and, uh, Harold Weiss, who is played by Marvin J. McIntyre, and then Amber Mendez, who is played by Maria Conchita Alonso, have to evade stalkers while eventually aiding the resistance, uh, to disrupt the show.
Austin McCoyGUEST
So, um, the film received some mixed reviews, like Roger, Roger Ebert gave it 2.5 stars, um, and LA Times' Michael Wilmington called Schwarzenegger's performance the best since The Terminator.
Johanna MellisHOST
Mm-hmm.
Chris WilliamsHOST
Yeah.
Chris WilliamsHOST
Uh, it, you know, Roland Kincaid, AKA Young Yaphet Kotto, um-
AaronHOST
[laughs]
Chris WilliamsHOST
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Michael GoldfarbHOST
America is still living with the consequences of deindustrialization.
Michael GoldfarbHOST
And it's also remembered for giving its, at the time, rising stars Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto, and Harvey Keitel lead roles that allowed them to show a level of complicated detail and humanity in their work that perhaps their earlier films had not permitted.
Michael GoldfarbHOST
This was certainly the case for Pryor, who was best known as a standup comic of genius, but not as a dramatic actor.
Michael GoldfarbHOST
I saw the film on first release in early 1978.
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Paul SchraderGUEST
You can either use it or you can put it away.
Paul SchraderGUEST
You decide what you want to do with it." [laughs]
Michael GoldfarbHOST
The question is, it's a very realistic film, and you are not Black, and you walked in and, and you had to handle Yaphet Kotto, who was not quite as big a star as he would eventually become, but he had starred in Across 125th Street, and I think he'd done the James Bond movie, where he'd made a real impact as the villain.
Michael GoldfarbHOST
And-