Luc Besson: Creepy French Director "The Fifth Element" & "The Professional"
What a Creep
Margo Donohue
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Director Luc Besson
Season 28, Episode 6
Luc Besson is the writer and director of “La Femme Nikita,” “The Fifth Element,” and “Leon: The Professional.” He’s also the writer and producer of “The Transporter” and “Taken” movies. The Daily Beast describes him as “the Michael Bay of France.” The French director has also been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women, with allegations ranging from rape to sexual harassment. What a creep.
Trigger warnings: Rape, sexual harassment, and Sonia’s bad French pronunciation
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What a Creep, the show with Margotonio and Sonia Mansfield, talking about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:08.4 | This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes, and losers, the best of the worst. |
| 0:14.6 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome back to What a Creep. |
| 0:32.0 | This is Margo Donahuey, and my cohort in Creepitude as always is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. |
| 0:32.9 | Hey, Sonia. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello, my friend. |
| 0:35.4 | Hello, my friend. |
| 0:38.5 | We are the podcast that talks about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:42.7 | Ooh, we've got a Hollywood-sized creep today. |
| 0:44.3 | CREP. |
| 0:47.9 | But before we get to that, if this is your first time listening, just so you know, |
| 0:54.0 | we always end this episode with somebody who is not a creep or a group of things that are not creepy. |
| 0:55.5 | You'll understand when we get there. |
| 0:59.1 | But we're always looking for ideas for creeps and non-creps. |
| 1:01.7 | And these are the places you can reach out to us on social media. |
| 1:03.5 | We have a basic Facebook page. |
| 1:04.3 | We never check it. |
| 1:06.2 | It's just where people go to complain about our language. |
| 1:07.5 | This is your big warning. |
| 1:10.1 | We use salty language in this program. |
| 1:28.8 | Fuck yeah, we do. We're the most interactive in our private Facebook group. We're keeping it private. We're keeping it a great place to hang out. So if you're interested, go to What a Creep podcast group. Type in. You have to answer a few questions. Please just promise not to be an asshole. And then you can come in and we just talk about creeps. We also talk about pop culture, things happening in the news. Good place to hang out. Other places you could try us are threads, |
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