On Feeling Seen, writer and general enthusiast Jordan Crucchiola invites filmmakers, writers, comedians, and artists to discuss the movie characters that made them "feel seen." It's about that instant when a person connects to a piece of art so deeply that they see themselves reflected in it. Every week Jordan gabs it up with a guest about those magical moments when they were watching a film and realized, "That's me!" It's an informative, funny, and comforting show about our intimate relatio ...
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🎙I Feel Seen is a safe space that connects us through experiences which influence truth. ✨🦉 New episodes will be released weekly! 🎉🎈 Please join us as we uncover what it means to be SEEN! We can be found on Apple, Spotify Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio and many more. Connect with me on the following platforms - Twitter: @ifeelseenpod • Instagram: @ifeelseenpod • Email: ifeelseenpod@gmail.com • Use the hashtag #ifeelseenpod to keep the conversation going! Happy listening!
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'Gory' Cory McCullough on 'The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl' and 'Elvira: Mistress of the Dark'
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Cory McCullough is a rising star in horror. They run a killer blog (gorycory.net) and just produced a feature film. It’s called Welcome Week: A College Horror Anthology. College alone can be frightening but add a relentless masked killer to the mix and it’s a REAL nightmare. This week, Cory joins Feeling Seen to talk about their work AND an array o…
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Heather Graham on 'Harold and Maude'
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Heather Graham is an absolute icon in film and television with countless credits to her name. You may know Heather from License to Drive, Boogie Nights, or her 2018 directorial debut Half Magic. Recently, Heather wrote, directed, and starred in the comedy film Chosen Family. She plays Ann, a yoga teacher struggling to achieve inner peace despite th…
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Brian Jordan Alvarez on 'All About My Mother' and 'English Teacher'
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You may know Brian Jordan Alvarez from the killer horror film M3GAN or from his web series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo. Most recently, Brian created and stars in the FX comedy series English Teacher, a refreshingly hilarious original that follows a high school teacher navigating personal and professional life in Texas. It's critically …
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Tim Leong's creative direction and design is some of the best of our time, featuring icons across industries on the covers of magazines. He is also an author, penning a series of Super Graphics that guide you through various comic book universes and Star Wars. His most recent book is the Marvel Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Marvel Comics Uni…
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Rhona Mitra on 'Far from the Madding Crowd'
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Rhona Mitra is known for her countless roles in film and television. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Boston Legal, The Last Ship. Rhona stars in the new film Hounds of War, an action-packed revenge story that’s streaming right now. This week, Rhona tunes in #TrulyOffGrid to talk about the film AND how she feels seen by the headstrong lead of the Br…
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Comedian and actor Chris Grace has starred in NBC's Superstore, PEN15, and Broad City. Now he takes to the stage as one of the world's most famous actresses in his new comedy special on Dropout, Chris Grace as Scarlett Johansson. Chris graces our mics to talk about the special AND how he felt seen in the 1993 ensemble-driven drama, THE JOY LUCK CLU…
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Kristen "KII" Correll on 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure'
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Kristen "KII" Correll isn't ashamed of her inner weirdness, and she isn't letting her big "but" stand in the way of her goals. If that's not Pee-wee Herman in a nutshell, then you don't know Pee-wee. Kristen and Jordan celebrate the many joys of Tim Burton's 1985 classic film, as well as Pee-wee's Playhouse (which is where KII was first introduced …
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Olive Penderghast might not have stood out at her high school until the big rumors started...but she certainly stands out in the world of teen comedy heroines. Writer (and Tik Tok star!) Remy Solomon watched EASY A on repeat as a teen, and shares Olive's gifts, as well as some of her life lessons. Then, Jordan has one quick thing about Jeremy Sauln…
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Paul Feig on 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' [Replay]
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This interview (with a different "One Quick Thing" segment) originally aired in November of 2022. It was our 1 year anniversary! Starting off with his deep identification with the singularly obsessed Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, Paul shares stories of his childhood as a sci-fi loving movie nerd, his adulthood …
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Mario Adrion on 'One Piece' and 'Good Will Hunting'
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Stand-up comedy. YouTube stardom. Male modeling. Will Hunting. A precocious wannabe pirate with super-stretch powers. What do these things have in common? Listen and find out how they all come together in the form of German-born comedian Mario Adrion, as he and Jordan discuss his affinity with Monkey D. Luffy and Will Hunting. Then Jordan has one q…
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Jen Kober on 'Freaky Friday' (1976) and 'The Facts of Life'
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Comedian Jen Kober always knew why she felt an affinity with Mindy Cohn's Natalie on The Facts of Life. Natalie was the rare bigger girl on TV in the 1980s, and yet that wasn't a huge part of her character -- she was smart, goofy, and beloved by her friends. As for Jodie Foster's tomboy teen in the original Freaky Friday movie? Sure, it was good to…
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Justin Simien on 'Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One'
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When writer/director Justin Simien (Dear White People, Haunted Mansion) first saw William Greaves' groundbreaking 1968 film, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One. He was mad. Not about the film's avant-garde style (part fiction, part documentary, part performance art) but about the fact that he hadn't seen it sooner -- it might've saved him a lot of tro…
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Jennifer Phang on 'Battlestar Galactica'
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Director Jennifer Phang has helmed episodes of some major shows -- THE BOYS, RIVERDALE, THE EXPANSE, RESIDENT ALIEN, THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT, and more. Her latest film is Disney's DESCENDANTS: THE RISE OF RED. In this conversation, themes of humanity, mother/daughter relationships, and robots of all stripes abound in this episode, and no wonder, when …
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Before Bill Burke founded The Optimism Institute and started hosting the podcast Blue Sky, he had a major career in entertainment business -- the first GM of Turner Classic Movies, former CEO of the Weather Channel, ghostwriter of Ted Turner's memoir, just to name a few. Now, as someone devoted to the cause of seeing the positivity in the world wit…
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First time feature director Sean Wang wanted a story that only he could tell, specific yet relatable. And so, with his new film 'Dìdi,' (a Sundance hit this year) he chose the coming-of-age genre and a semi autobiographical narrative. He was inspired in his filmmaking by a movie he'd seen in the theaters when he was around the same age as its prota…
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Sequoia Holmes on 'The Cheetah Girls'
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Sequoia Holmes, host of the Webby Award-winning BLACK PEOPLE LOVE PARAMORE grew up idolizing Raven-Symoné...or was the real inspiration Raven's character, the self-assured and big-dreaming Galleria Garibaldi in 2003's THE CHEETAH GIRLS? Jordan and Sequoia celebrate the surprising depth of this DCOM classic. Then, Jordan has one quick thing about TR…
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131 - Devery Jacobs on 'The Watermelon Woman' & More
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Actor (and director, writer, producer) Devery Jacobs might be most familiar to folks from her role on RESERVATION DOGS, but she's carving out her own space in Hollywood with projects like the new movie BACKSPOT (executive produced by Elliot Page and directed by D.W. Waterson). And even as she's playing her part in making sure Native actors feel see…
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Nida Manzoor on 'Slums of Beverly Hills' [Replay]
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This episode originally aired in April of 2023, but has been edited to include a new and updated "One Quick Thing" at the end! Season 2 of Manzoor's We Are Lady Parts is now streaming on Peacock in the US. Balancing the dark and the light sides of coming of age, womanhood, and navigating the social order is something filmmaker Nida Manzoor always s…
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Whether he's starring in major movies like ELEMENTAL or JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION, or sinking his teeth into roles like his his latest (in Yorgos Lanthimos' new KINDS OF KINDNESS), actor Mamoudou Athie follows his gut and ignores the algorithms. When Dev Patel's directorial debut, MONKEY MAN hit theaters earlier this year, Mamoudou found new depths o…
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June Squibb was born an actor, and had a rich career on stage for years before becoming an on-screen performer in her sixties. It’s not your typical trajectory, sure, but then neither is being 94 and carrying your first feature film – which, by the way, is an action comedy. With her new movie THELMA new in theaters this weekend, the singular June S…
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The movie CLUE may not have been an instant hit, but it has an enduring legacy. And maybe everyone has a favorite character. But for Adam Goldman, creator and writer of The Outs and Hot White Heist, Mr. Green (Michael McKean) is more than just a fave. He's a first example of what it means to be a "gay dipshit" (his words, we promise). Then Jordan h…
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Megan Rosati on 'Let the Right One In'
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Actor, director, and writer Megan Rosati was not a child vampire. But from first watch, she so identified with Eli, the 12-year-old vampire in LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, the modern horror classic from Sweden, that she would show the film to people to help them understand her. In this episode, she and Jordan dig into the ways we can feel like we're diffe…
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Asher Perlman on 'Adaptation' (2002)
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New Yorker cartoonist and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Asher Perlman, related to Charlie Kaufman's self-deprecating self-portrait in Spike Jonze's 2002 film Adaptation - a movie we discussed here in one of our earliest episodes, with author Susan Orlean. As he's grown up -- both as a person and a creative -- has he gotten more in …
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DeWanda Wise on 'The Secret Life of Bees' (2008)
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You definitely know DeWanda Wise from somewhere. She's made a splash on the big and the small screen, in titles like SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (the Netflix series) and JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION. Now she's starring in the horror film IMAGINARY, which just landed on VOD after being in theaters earlier this year. But if you didn't realize that was the same De…
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With CHALLENGERS, screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes tapped into what he really wanted to know about his favorite athletes: what are they REALLY playing for? Beyond the game? That's a glimpse we get into Brad Pitt's Billy Beane in the 2011 film MONEYBALL. What's more, we see Beane trying to do something anyone who's tried to get a movie or a play off th…
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Sierra Katow on 'Lilo & Stitch' and 'My Neighbor Totoro'
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Sierra Katow is an Asian-American woman in stand-up comedy, but those parts of her identity are surface-level. What you might not know about Sierra (unless you watch her new special, FUNT) is that she's also a little sister. That's not the only point of recognition she has with Lilo and Mei, heroes of Lilo & Stitch and My Neighbor Totoro, but it's …
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Latrice Royale on 'Harlem Nights' (1989)
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Drag superstar Latrice Royale has been in the game since before Ru Paul's Drag Race was a phenomenon. She won Miss Congeniality on her season of that show, and went on to appear on All-Stars and Drag U. An actor and performer, Latrice is one of the co-hosts of the just-launched Season 4 of HBO's We're Here. And if you know anything about Latrice, j…
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Lisa Ann Walter on 'Shall We Dance' & Funny Broads [Replay]
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This episode originally aired on May 18, 2023. From her roles in a semi-autobiographical sitcom in 1996 (Life's Work) to The Parent Trap to Abbott Elementary, Lisa Ann Walter has played a lot of different kinds of strong, brassy women. And even though standards of beauty and acceptance in Hollywood are always changing, those winds haven't always bl…
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Larry Fessenden on 'The Wolf Man' (1941)
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Larry Fessenden is almost a kind of mythic figure in the world of indie filmmaking. He's a filmmaker behind dozens of his own independently produced projects, an actor, an editor, and a producer who's helped give directors from Ti West to Kelly Reichart their start. His new film is BLACKOUT, which focuses on a different kind of mythic figure: the w…
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Avril Speaks on 'Awkward Black Girl'
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Avril Speaks, independent filmmaker and co-host of the film advice podcast DISTRIBUTION ADVOCATES PRESENTS tells us why J from AWKWARD BLACK GIRL was such a revelation -- even more so than when the successful web series morphed into INSECURE, and J became Issa. Plus, she shares her affinity with Summer, a teen girl coming of age as her mother conve…
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Michael Mohan on 'The Savages' (2007)
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THE SAVAGES (directed by Tamara Jenkins, who also directed SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS, and starrring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman) is an often poignant comedy about adult siblings trying to get care for their elderly father, who suffers from dementia. That might not be the most expected pick from a director whose new horror film, IMMACULATE,…
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Jackie Kashian on 'My Favorite Year'
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It's the final week of #MaxFunDrive! Thanks to everyone who has joined or upgraded so far; if you've been putting it off, now's thie time! maximumfun.org/join It's been a long time since comedian Jackie Kashian (co-host of MaxFun's own Jackie and Laurie Show) has been a industry newb like Benji (Mark Linn Baker) in 1982's MY FAVORITE YEAR. But she …
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BoCo Preview - Erotic Thriller Pilot, 'Color of Night' (Director's Cut)
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Susie Banikarim on 'The Devil Wears Prada'
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Susie Banikarim has been a freshman journalist. She's also been a boss. Now, she's the co-host and EP of the podcast In Retrospect, along with her friend, New York Times editor Jessica Bennett. Over the years, Susie has kept watching the 2006 modern classic The Devil Wears Prada, and she's noticed a funny thing happen. Where once she (obviously!) i…
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Caitlin Peluffo on 'Little Giants' (1994)
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Comedian Caitlin Peluffo (whose new album, DIRTY BIRD, just dropped) was a soccer star as a kid who craved attention from boys, despite not fitting the "cute girl" stereotype. Becky "Icebox" O'Shea, a central character in the 1994 family football comedy LITTLE GIANTS, is on the precipice of that same flight. Caitlin never did shake her deep affinit…
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Brigette Lundy-Paine on 'Midnight Cowboy'
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Brigette Lundy-Paine comes from a creative family, and (in addition to their music and their work on WAIF Magazine), has been acting since childhood. In adulthood, success in their career has shown them the difference between being playing a role on screen and playing one in real life. Joe Buck, the pretend cowboy and wannabe hustler at the center …
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The host and writer of the SIGNIFICANT OTHERS podcast, Liza Powel O'Brien, was a teenager when Dustin Hoffman's iconic Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels dropped into her life via TOOTSIE. The Michael/Dorothy transformation illustrated to her the same thing it showed Michael in the movie: it takes a lot of work to dress up like a woman. Jordan and Liz…
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Oscar Montoya on 'Young Sherlock Holmes'
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Oscar Montoya is a co-host of the new MaxFun podcast Eurovangelists, all about the Eurovision Song Contest. And his love of song and spectacle factors into his professional life as a dancer, actor, and comedian. But long before that career began, Oscar was a kid growing up in Colombia, where for some reason a 1985 movie called Young Sherlock Holmes…
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It's a banner day for Feeling Seen! On the heels of her latest screenplay, LISA FRANKENSTEIN (in theaters now), Jordan is talking to none other than Diablo Cody. From the Oscar win for her first screenplay (JUNO) to her recent success in the realm of the Broadway musical (JAGGED LITTLE PILL), Diablo has made a career of writing from her unique voic…
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Jade Halley Bartlett on 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'
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While MILLER'S GIRL, in theaters now, is Jade Halley Bartlett's debut feature, she's been a working screenwriter, playwright, and actor for many years. In this conversation, Jade and Jordan discuss the multi-faceted awakening that was Elizabeth Taylor as the witty-but-acerbic, strong-but-broken Martha in Mike Nichols' debut feature, WHO'S AFRAID OF…
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Moshe Kasher on Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter & Edmund Pevensie
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You might know Moshe Kasher from his standup, from his podcast Endless Honeymoon (co-hosted with his wife, actor/comedian Natasha Leggero), or from his memoirs -- of which the latest, SUBCULTURE VULTURE: A MEMOIR IN SIX SCENES, is out now. But that's just scratching the surface in the many lives and quests of Moshe. He tells Jordan about his forays…
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Kali Reis on 'Euphoria' [Replay with an Update!]
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The interview in this episode was originally published in March of 2022. Before she was the starring alongside Jodie Foster in TRUE DETECTIVE, Kali Reis was a champion boxer. As she shares in this interview, she has always been "boxing for a cause" -- in particular, that of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women. In her feature debut, 'Catch the Fai…
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Parvesh Cheena on The Penguin & Dr. Evil
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Star of stage and screen, film and television, voice over and live action, Parvesh Cheena's list of credits is expansive -- and you've almost certainly seen or heard him in SOMETHING (Barbershop? Outsourced? Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? Mythic Quest? The Mandalorian?). Parvesh has carved out a place for himself as a character actor -- a position that has a…
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Josh Gondelman on 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
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Comedian and writer Josh Gondelman is a pep-talk enthusiast and famously upbeat guy, with a solid career and a happy home life. Not one of these traits does he share with Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), from the Coen Brothers' 2013 film INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS. And yet, when he saw it in the theater, Josh felt so seen by Llewyn -- and not in a good way -- …
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Growing up on the rez, comedian and writer Joey Clift didn't know that comedy (or TV writing) was an option for him. But a decade in Hollywood has taken him from UCB teams to Emmy nominations, and on the way he's helped create the Native representation he didn't see as a kid. He's also watched as the industry has begun to make that representation m…
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This interview was originally recorded in April of 2022, when Auli'i Cravalho, who made a name for herself as the voice of Moana, was co-starring in Hulu's CRUSH (which is delightful, you should watch it!). Now, Auli'i will soon be hitting big screens as Janis Ian in the new movie adaptation of the MEAN GIRLS musical. With warm wishes for a bright …
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Justin Kirkland on 'The Family Stone'
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When it comes to the many characters of sleeper Christmas favorite The Family Stone, writer and podcaster (John Dutton Must Die: A Yellowstone Podcast, My Year With Dolly) wishes he could identify as an Amy. But he sees himself instead as a Julie – as in Claire Danes character, the sister who rushes in to save the day and somehow manages to charm t…
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Comedy writer, singer, co-host of the Las Culturistas podcast, and now Prince of Christmas, Matt Rogers is filling a musical comedy niche previously occupied by...well, no one at all. Is it possible that he got here by following his inner Torrance Shipman, aka Kirsten Dunst's character from the 2000 film Bring It On? Matt shares why the movie was i…
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William Brent Bell on 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'
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When the director of some of the juiciest modern horror films came to us with Ferris Bueller as his "feeling seen" pick, we were surprised and intrigued. John Hughes' fun-loving and beloved (except by the principal) truant, as played by Matthew Broderick, is the ultimate main character. And while William Brent Bell might not crave the spotlight, he…
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Stephen Tobolowsky on 'It's a Wonderful Life' & 'Bride of Frankenstein'
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All-time great character actor Stephen Tobolowsky might be best known as Ned Ryerson from GROUNDHOG DAY, but his film and television credits number in the hundreds. His thoughtful character choices for today are appropriately iconic -- George Bailey from It's a Wonderful Life and the Monster from Bride of Frankenstein. But the real highlight of thi…
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