LeBron Jamesis back for more shop talk.
In a trailer for Friday’s episode of Uninterrupted’sThe Shop,shared exclusively with PEOPLE, the Lakers star, 37, chats with actorDaniel KaluuyaaboutBrittney Griner’s detainment in Russia, Black art and more from a New York-based barbershop.
“Now, how can she feel like America has her back? I would be feeling like, ‘Do I even want to go back to America?'” James says of Griner, 31,the WNBA playerand two-time Olympic gold medalistwho has been detained in Russia on drug smuggling chargessince February.
Along with the focus on Griner, the group also talks about race, with Kaluuya, 33, commenting on the saying that Black people need to “be twice as good to get half as much,” explaining: “I always didn’t like that saying. So, I said, ‘I want to be twice as good because I want to be twice as good.’ "
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The episode also includes discussion about how Kaluuya “prepared forhis role as Fred Hampton,” the Black Panther party leader, in his filmJudas and the Black Messiah, and why James “hates Boston fans.”
For more on the upcoming episode ofThe Shop, listen below to our daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day.
Along with airing on the Uninterrupted YouTube channel,The Shopwill be available in podcast form on all platforms for the first time this season.
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The Shopwas renewed for season 5 in February, when it was announced that the show would make the move from its previous home at HBO to YouTube, according toThe Hollywood Reporter.
The latest episode ofThe Shopairs Friday, July 15 at 9 a.m. PT/ 12 p.m. ET exclusively on the Uninterrupted YouTubechannel.
source: people.com
