Actor Julia Garner is Hollywood’s Secret ‘Weapon’
Actor Julia Garner (Ozark) has built a career out of shapeshifting. This summer, the Emmy-winning performer lands on the silver (surfer) screen with two major projects—The Fantastic Four: First Steps ...
10 Aug 202550min
David Mamet Exits Stage Left
David Mamet is one of the most celebrated American playwrights of the last century: Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, and Glengarry Glen Ross— which won the Pulitzer Priz...
3 Aug 20251h 19min
Director Celine Song on ‘Materialists’ (Death, Sex & Money)
Long before Celine Song was nominated for an Academy Award for her feature directorial debut, Past Lives, she was a struggling playwright in New York City with an unusual side hustle: matchmaking. In ...
30 Jul 202542min
Actor Patricia Clarkson (‘Sharp Objects’) Goes Her Own Way
After nearly four decades of working in Hollywood, actor Patricia Clarkson (The Station Agent, Pieces of April) says her portrayal of women’s rights activist Lilly Ledbetter is “the greatest privilege...
27 Jul 202556min
Play It Again: Joaquin Phoenix
“I wanted to be good, but I completely burned up the morning,” said Joaquin Phoenix on day 1 of Eddington. “Ari and I stayed on set when everyone left for lunch—and, slowly, something emerged. I don’t...
23 Jul 20251h 3min
Director Ari Aster (‘Eddington’) Has Made an American Western for 2025
“Eddington is a film about a bunch of people who know that something is wrong,” says writer-director Ari Aster. “It’s just that nobody can agree on what that thing is.” Aster joins us this week to unp...
20 Jul 202556min
Lena Dunham is Never ‘Too Much’
Writer/director Lena Dunham is the voice of my generation. Or at the very least, a voice of a generation. Her new show, Too Much, is now available to stream on Netflix. We start by discussing her 2022...
16 Jul 20251h 15min
How ‘Big and Beautiful’ is Trump’s Bill? (with Jamelle Bouie of NYT)
From the opinion pages of The New York Times to his popular TikTok feed, Jamelle Bouie is a leading voice in American politics. This week, Bouie helps us sift through the inner workings of Trump’s “Bi...
13 Jul 20251h 29min
