Here is your first look at the trailer for the upcoming documentary We Need To Talk About Cosby, and after watching it I must say it’s definitely must see TV.
84-year-old disgraced comic Bill Cosby’s assault allegations will be explored in comedian W. Kamau Bell’s upcoming four-part documentary, where he interviews comedians, actors, and even some of Cosby’s accusers.
“Bill Cosby had been one of my heroes. I’m a black man, a stand-up comic, born in the ’70s. This was complicated. How do we talk about Bill Cosby?” Bell asked.
“Do not edit this: A lot of people knew,” Eden Tirl says chillingly in the trailer. Tirl is an actress and an accuser of Cosby who alleged that he sexually harassed her.
“Because you can’t do what he did unless you have other people supporting what you’re doing,” she said.
This conversation is long overdue, where black people sit down and really have the conversation about how we tend to put our “black heroes” on a pedestal, and even though we know in our hearts that they have done others wrong, we still support them because of a certain idea we have in our heads about them.
We’ve seen it happen time and time again, with R. Kelly being another example, where people in his inner circle and in the industry were aware of what he was doing, but looked the other way because they made money off of him.
We Need To Talk About Cosby premieres January 30 on Showtime.
Check out the trailer below…
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