{"podcast":{"title":"Cannonball with Wesley Morris","slug":"cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699","podcast_index_feed_id":800699,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/JJrAJ_VY","website_url":"http://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/still-processing","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/4105a47a-42e5-4ccc-887a-832af7989986/f744f7d3-52bd-4733-ae4a-818042909996/3000x3000/cannonball-album-20art-3000px-0605.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"The New York Times","episode_count":46,"summary":"Conversations about the culture that moves us – the good, the bad and whatever’s in between. Every week, critic Wesley Morris talks with writers and artists about the moment we’re in. Surprisingly personal and never obvious, new episodes drop Thursdays. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699"},"episode":{"title":"Does 'The Drama' Know Zendaya Is Black?","slug":"does-the-drama-know-zendaya-is-black","published_at":"2026-04-23T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699/does-the-drama-know-zendaya-is-black","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/still-processing","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/2893446d-8730-4532-8321-b81d2bb2b03b/episodes/a0313468-c236-41c6-829c-520a2f0f90b3/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=2893446d-8730-4532-8321-b81d2bb2b03b&awEpisodeId=a0313468-c236-41c6-829c-520a2f0f90b3&feed=JJrAJ_VY","summary":"Wesley loves Zendaya. The actress caught his eye as the charming but drug addled Rue in HBO’s “Euphoria.” But he thinks Hollywood hasn’t cast her in roles worthy of her considerable gifts. So when Zendaya showed up in the movie “The Drama” as a young Black woman with a secret from her past that threatens to derail her engagement to Robert Pattinson’s character, Wesley was cautiously optimistic. Here were two of Hollywood’s finest in a complex, high stakes, love affair — one made even more interesting by its interracial realities. But the movie inexplicably dodges the question of race. So Wesley invites Gina Cherelus, who covers dating and culture at The New York Times, to help him unpack \"The Drama\" — what it knows, and doesn’t, about what it’s up to.","meta_description":"Wesley loves Zendaya. The actress caught his eye as the charming but drug addled Rue in HBO’s “Euphoria.” But he thinks Hollywood hasn’t cast her in roles…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2511,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699/episodes/does-the-drama-know-zendaya-is-black/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699/does-the-drama-know-zendaya-is-black.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}