I was out there on the dock before the show and I finally heard it. HENRY: (As Alfred "Paper Boi" Miles) Tonight. It's not going anywhere, the interrogation, and, like, Paper Boi - Alfred - opens up about why, you know, he really needed that phone. Like, when you, as Paper Boi, have lost your phone and you've been interrogating this really annoying guy who you think has the phone. And so what I find this season is you get to see Alfred truly, like, living. Like, there's always us trying to survive, and we rarely get a chance to experience what it's like to live. You know, especially being Black in America, we are always in survival mode.
I really, really care about Alfred, and the biggest thing that I wanted is for everyone to care about him, too. Like, you know, I really, really care about this man, man. HENRY: I know this sounds like - you know what I mean? I know it sounds so actor-y (ph), but it's true, man, because, like.
And I know that this sounds crunchy granola. And then I feel, like, special responsibility of protecting him and showing him things that he's never seen. Alfred has done this remarkable thing of protecting me and being able to stand up for me in places that Brian never felt like he could stand up for himself. HENRY: Like, me and Alfred just have so much more in common than, like - we have - I hold him very close to my heart. RASCOE: You're doing Marvel movies, right? Like, every single one of us were like, all right, like. And yeah, like, after Season 2 - well, even, like, the beginning of Season 1, our lives just, like, went all over the place. HENRY: "Atlanta" did something so crazy where we have created this universe that really reflects us back to ourselves. And was it always a given that there would be a Season 3 of "Atlanta" because all of y'all, the main actors on this show, done made it big, right? Like, y'all (laughter) - y'all have blown up. RASCOE: (Laughter) I mean, you mentioned, like, what it means to make it big. You know, I had this joke of, like, man, you really know that you've made it when white people are running up to you, speaking different languages. You get to see him really, really understand that he is now basically, like, a pop star. What's great about this season is that you get to see Alfred lean into that a little bit more. HENRY: Well, I think that is a kind of way of knowing that you have made it successfully - right? - once you become international. So why take this season on the road and away from Atlanta? Like, your character, Paper Boi, is now a successful rapper, and this season finds him on tour in Amsterdam and the U.K. RASCOE: So Season 3 of "Atlanta" is a little bit different because you guys are barely in Georgia. Brian Tyree Henry joins us now from Atlanta, appropriately. RASCOE: That's Donald Glover's Earnest and Brian Tyree Henry's Alfred "Paper Boi" Miles. Hell you think TikTok is? Black kids need to scam more. HENRY: (As Alfred "Paper Boi" Miles) Yeah, man, so what? White kids be scamming all the time. GLOVER: (As Earnest "Earn" Marks) That don't mean I got to help him, right? I mean, yeah, he's Black, but he's still scamming. I don't know what to do.īRIAN TYREE HENRY: (As Alfred "Paper Boi" Miles) Yeah, but you Black, though.
"Atlanta" is back for Season 3, and the series is still going there.ĭONALD GLOVER: (As Earnest "Earn" Marks) That's just going to make it harder for me and other Black kids who are actually talented.