Trevor Noah’s first podcast visitor is … Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
What Now? with Trevor Noah is the newest access within the comic’s dizzying portfolio, and he’s been protecting his visitor roster beneath wraps till the weekly pod started rolling out. For many who’ll see The Rock indexed and think What Now? is poised to be simply any other outlet for A-list celebrities, Noah is fast to dispel that perception. “No, we’re going to have A-list conversations,” he advised The Hollywood Reporter.
Going ahead, the Spotify podcast will characteristic all various kinds of visitors, some significantly extra well-known than others. As Noah describes it, he’s as fascinated by reserving scientists and CEOs as he’s politicians and athletes — as long as they’re attention-grabbing and, in all probability much more necessary, well timed. In reality, he’s dedicated to taping those interviews as as regards to unlock as conceivable to make sure the latter.
When Noah does have A-list stars at the display, he insists he gained’t be inquisitive about their subsequent venture, no matter it can be. As a substitute, he sees his new platform as an area the place he can discuss to his topics for a longer duration and, perhaps, in fact, get to understand them. It’s the type of factor that hosts say continuously as they release new presentations, however you get the sense that Noah in truth believes it.
“Confidently, you’ll be able to get a deeper working out of the way they see the sector,” he says, “and perhaps even speak about how they really feel about how the sector sees them.”
On the subject of The Rock, in particular, Noah was once desperate to discover a lot, a lot more than his IMDB profile. The wide-ranging interview, which is to be had each in video shape (handiest on Spotify) and audio (Spotify and all over the place else), covers the entirety from the actor’s early life and lifetime struggles with despair, to him looking to procedure and make sense of the blowback to him launching his fund following the Maui fires.
“It’s attention-grabbing to talk to the one who was once looking to lift cash for the Maui wildfires after which skilled the backlash he did in some way that some other people totally understood and other folks totally didn’t,” says Noah. “What’s that like from the interior? How does the individual procedure that data? What do they consider it? After which speaking about his existence and who he’s, like, what made Dwayne Johnson the individual he’s lately?”
Already, the reserving procedure has proved significantly more straightforward than it was once when Noah introduced his iteration of The Day-to-day Display in September 2015. At the moment, Kevin Hart agreed to be his first visitor, which was once a reasonably dangerous transfer for the reason that Noah was once each an unknown amount to U.S. audience and on the heart of controversy after some ill-advised tweets resurfaced. “No person sought after to the touch me with a 10-foot pole,” Noah advised THR remaining yr as he was once signing off at The Day-to-day Display, “however Kevin was once like, ‘I really like comedians, let’s do that,’ and I’m endlessly thankful to him for that.”
