July 4, 2024
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Topher Grace Opens Up About Controversial ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Role | TODAY



“BlacKkKlansman” star Topher Grace sits down with TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie to discuss his controversial role in the Spike Lee film about an African-American detective who goes undercover to infiltrate the Klu Klux Klan. Grace plays David Duke, the Klan’s leader at the center of the investigation. “In this period of time in the 1970s, (Duke) put a new face on racism,” Grace says, adding research for his role was “the worst.”
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Topher Grace Opens Up About Controversial ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Role | TODAY

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  • @AM-wt9ev June 24, 2024

    He did an amazing job

  • @lucashenko7 June 24, 2024

    oh, the poor little thing had to play/act a character that he wasn’t fond of, and also do some research on him. that’s just terrible. i hope he’s not traumatised 🤦

  • @Vidz.3901 June 24, 2024

    Venom was talking not him

  • @TTTGotti June 24, 2024

    He is a Great Actor. But I truly became a fan. He showed great Range

  • @ritaholdorff601 June 24, 2024

    When he said go into the basement I just got Eric Forman vibes ahhhhh I love topher grace when I first saw this movie when it first came out it was insane I loved it so much!!!!!

  • @zwebackshyper9307 June 24, 2024

    he would go into the basement to relax huh?

  • @mistercool3859 June 24, 2024

    David Duke was a clean-cut, goodlooking, well-educated, well-dressed, non-threatening racist. He was indeed scary.

  • @TVsttic June 24, 2024

    i can't see him as any character other than eric from 'That 70's Show'

  • @Cam12369 June 24, 2024

    I love how hard they try to correlate racist movies to Donald trump and the current state of the country. “America first” hahah it’s hilarious

  • America First! Amen.

  • @gksmith-mccarthy979 June 24, 2024

    I had to look him up. I was so relieved to see that who he really is, is a complete 180 from who he was playing in that movie. I never watched that 70s show so this was the first time I had seen him. Then I saw him recently on Black Mirror playing another completely different character. haha

  • @elpariente4770 June 24, 2024

    Im so glad he got this i feel like playing venom didn’t help his career

  • @djm6211 June 24, 2024

    Topher is the man

  • @diablow1411 June 24, 2024

    Venom leading the racist organization 😂

  • @Jenjen-qc5eq June 24, 2024

    Topher was clearly unnerved by this evil.

  • @dkkoover June 24, 2024

    Topher's lazy eye is so distracting once you notice it.

  • I was watching this movie in its french version. The display of hatred is so crude and primitive that I had to stop watching for a moment.

  • @notsorry3631 June 24, 2024

    it was total propaganda and it's gross.
    what trash.

  • @aboutagirl1998 June 24, 2024

    Eric Forman

  • @sydneym997 June 24, 2024

    Eric Forman is racist?

  • @surfraptor June 24, 2024

    "Controversial"??

  • @ZachTheGuinepig June 24, 2024

    Editing together hobbit movies is definitely sometimes Eric Foreman would do as well 😂. Got nothin but love for topher grace, such a great guy

  • @MidnightRambler June 24, 2024

    Complete fiction. The whole film is bs

  • @spider-man303 June 24, 2024

    WE RO VENOM

  • @anitv432 June 24, 2024

    this was the guy who played venom is spiderman 3

  • @danlc95 June 24, 2024

    I remember that clip where Eric was looking into the future, and he had a mustache…. Just like the clip where he plays Duke.

    I've done some research into Dr. Duke. I was surprised to see the support from minorities he had…

  • @nascarkraz June 24, 2024

    Here is a known fact and I don't know if this makes Topher a psychic or not but during That '70s Show in an interview he predicted that 20 yrs from that interview 1999 he would be back in the 70s. This movie is based in the 70s. Go figure. 🙂

  • @ayderla789 June 24, 2024

    the movie is very bad if ur white maybe just black panther this one

  • @TXejas19 June 24, 2024

    "I just had a baby, can you cool it with the hate speech" words you don't expect from your spouse

  • @elizabethzenn2353 June 24, 2024

    trump is the kkk systematic continuation of hate..

  • @queeneliane7745 June 24, 2024

    He’s an amazing actor, it’s annoying that people can’t differentiate between an actor and the roles they play. I think he did a good job.

  • @Butterflier00 June 24, 2024

    he really captured the charisma of David Duke.

  • @seanlagunday168 June 24, 2024

    To relax and detox Topher just goes to The Circle

  • @mariatheresasy2693 June 24, 2024

    He's soooo cute, he still looks like 20 😍😊

  • @tsukusuyomi June 24, 2024

    I can't listen to his voice without laughing a little

  • @aavishkarsingh6719 June 24, 2024

    he makes the script seem so 70s show

  • @mtchll4bandz June 24, 2024

    He said “I had to go in the basement & relax” 👀

  • @aaronrosman7556 June 24, 2024

    Why was this role controversial , it’s a role for an actor . People are so weak and sad it’s depressing honestly.

  • +Terry Shaw : Correction a Role he choose to play.

  • @PaperMario64 June 24, 2024

    Great interview. Topher seems like a decent person.

  • @dekustark June 24, 2024

    He's not a racist and he's amazing actor, period. Just glad he's being cast in a major role again. Tough luck it had to be this one though lol

  • @nachoprime9649 June 24, 2024

    Hey look its the worst character in spiderman 3

  • @michaelharland5930 June 24, 2024

    I don't understand why they didn't get real klansmen to play these parts.

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