Companion is A Twisty Thriller + Interviews with Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, and Writer/Director Drew Hancock
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On the January 31, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor BJ Colangelo to talk about Drew Hancock’s new movie Companion, and present interviews with Hancock and the movie’s stars, Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid.
Addressing the recent Mason Thames quote
In Our Feature Presentation:
- Companion Review: This Surprising Horror Movie Is The First Great Film Of 2025
- General thoughts
- Spoiler discussion
- Interviews with Sophie Thatcher/Jack Quaid and Drew Hancock
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| 0:46.8 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Friday, January 31st, 2025. |
| 0:51.6 | On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about Drew Hancock's new movie companion, and we'll present interviews with Hancock and the movie stars Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid. |
| 1:00.7 | My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at Slashfilm.com and I'm joined on today's episode by Slashfilm editor, B.J. Kalangelo. |
| 1:07.0 | Hi, hi, hi, yeah. BJ, before we dig into today's episode, I wanted to address something real quick. |
| 1:13.2 | Earlier this week, Brad and I recorded a discussion about the first two episodes of the new Disney Plus series, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. |
| 1:20.3 | And we recorded that conversation before the star of the show, Hudson Thames, made this comment about how his biggest fear was that the show was going to be |
| 1:28.8 | quote, annoying and woke, but it wasn't, end quote. And so the reason Brad and I didn't talk about |
| 1:34.4 | that comment is because he hadn't said it yet. And this made all sorts of headlines and generated |
| 1:39.8 | all sorts of takes. BJ, do you have any reaction to this comment from this actor? |
| 1:46.1 | Yeah, so it's twofold. |
| 1:47.2 | The first one is like, all right, way to admit to the whole world that you're a loser. |
| 1:51.1 | Like if that's the thing you were worried about, grow up, my God. |
| 1:55.1 | But also, I can't help but feel like this is a very pointed microaggression because the creator and showrunner |
| 2:02.7 | of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, Jeff Tramel, is an incredible black animator who worked on |
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