Interview: Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things) and Cord Jefferson (American Fiction)
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🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
First, Kara Warner talks to the Oscar-nominated star of Poor Things, who says his comic blowhard performance could be the first of many funny roles if anyone wants to cast him in one. Then American Fiction writer-director Cord Jefferson tells Katey Rich about how he had to get talked into witnessing his film’s blockbuster Toronto Film Festival premiere, and what gives him hope for the future of Hollywood.
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| 0:00.0 | Vanity Fair. |
| 0:03.0 | Vanity Fair. |
| 0:16.0 | I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner. |
| 0:22.0 | And the Oscar goes to... |
| 0:24.0 | And the Oscar goes to... |
| 0:26.0 | The winner... |
| 0:28.0 | It's a tie. |
| 0:30.0 | And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the teller you never know |
| 0:36.0 | Mom I just want an Oscar I am Katie Rich. I am Katie Rich. I'm here for today's interview episode with Kara Warner. |
| 0:51.0 | Hello. Cara, we're delighted to have you on the show and to have you doing interviews as I think we've said you're an expert at talking to famous people and who could be a more delightful famous person for you to catch up with for today's episode |
| 1:05.8 | than Mark Ruffalo, the Oscar nominated star of Poor Things? |
| 1:09.0 | Do you guys go way back? |
| 1:10.3 | I can imagine you like talking him on the set of Avengers or something. |
| 1:13.4 | That's so kind. I honestly feel like Mark Ruffalo is someone that everyone goes way |
| 1:17.8 | back with. He's one of the more beloved humans both you know with actors and then journalists who get to interact with him. |
| 1:26.6 | He's someone that just is so genuine. I've been at you know press junkets where actors will find out that he's in the building and they will make an effort just to come by to say hello and they're not even part of the film. |
| 1:40.0 | He's just, he's one of those that you are so happy to root for and then just excited to speak to whenever |
| 1:46.1 | he's you know promoting or doing great work. |
| 1:48.9 | Yeah, his performance in poor things we've been talking about for so long that it's not exactly |
| 1:54.8 | like Ken and Barbie but there is so much like shared DNA there and I think a similar level of |
| 1:59.6 | surprise when you see poor things you know it's about this young woman played by |
| 2:02.8 | Emma Stone and her journey but as soon as he shows up on screen he really almost |
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