Ziweis welcoming new guests — and even more questions — in the new season of her self-titled talk show.
On Monday, Showtime released a trailer for the second season ofZIWE, featuring guests that includeMichael Che,Julia Fox,Amber Riley,Blake Griffin,Joel Kim Booster, Bob The Drag Queen, DeRay Mckesson,Drew BarrymoreandWayne Brady.
In the trailer, Ziwe, 30, proudly proclaims, “Let the pageantry begin” and declares that she’s “ready to go to diversity war” before the clip gives a look into the lineup of interviews.
In one scene, Ziwe asks Barrymore, “Where do you stand on the Emancipation Proclamation?” Barrymore, visually confused, answers, “I am for freedom. Is that the right answer?” Ziwe then tells Barrymore, “You tell me Drew.”
The trailer then cuts to a scene with Riley, 36, and Ziwe asks the actress if the Supreme Court or the cast ofGleeis more diverse.
Griffin, 33, is put into question in another scene and is asked about how often he compares himself to “the most powerful Black women in America.” He jokes, “More than you would think.”
From left: Drew Barrymore, Ziwe, Julia Fox.getty (3)
Ziwe previouslyopened up about her approachto conversations about race in a 2020 interview withVanity Fair.
“I would find myself in conversation with white peers, and they’d ask me, ‘Are you baiting me?’ No, I’m not baiting you,” she said. “You were just talking about race, and I’m following up about what I would consider really, really problematic answers. People have always felt uncomfortable talking about race, myself included, and I just want to take that discomfort away.”
She continued, “The show is my chance to confront all the conversations I had in my youth as a middle schooler and a high schooler and as a young adult where I didn’t have the vocabulary to say, ‘Hey, what you’re saying to me is really racist.’ This is me reliving those traumatic experiences that forever shaped my worldview of class and gender and race and institutions.”
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Season two ofZIWEwill be available to stream on Showtime beginning Nov. 18.
source: people.com
