Movie Interviews

Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) by Laura Dern and Diane Ladd

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Thinking she had just months to live, Laura Dern's mother 'spilled the beans'

1:57pm June 26, 2023

by Terry Gross

Actor Laura Dern and her mother Diane Ladd have always shared a profession. But when Ladd was diagnosed with lung disease, the two started sharing so much more. Their new book is Honey, Baby, Mine.

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Concept art for Disney and Pixar's Elemental by the director Peter Sohn.

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Earth, air, fire, water — and family — are all 'Elemental' for Pixar's Peter Sohn

5:05am June 15, 2023

by Elizabeth Blair

In science class, Sohn saw the periodic table as an apartment building. The son of Korean immigrants, he felt the elements were a "beautiful metaphor" for cultures mixing in his New York hometown.

Indian-Mexican restaurants inspired 'Land of Gold,' an intersecting immigrant story

5:07pm June 06, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with director and actor Nardeep Khurmi about his new movie Land of Gold about intersecting immigrant experiences.

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'Past Lives' star Greta Lee on how language and identity are intertwined

4:58pm June 02, 2023

Greta Lee stars in the new movie Past Lives. She talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about the film and the ways language and identity are intertwined.

FRONTLINE traces the 'ambition and revenge' driving SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas

1:38pm May 31, 2023

by Dave Davies

As controversy swirls around the benefits Thomas and his wife Ginni received from a conservative billionaire, filmmaker Michael Kirk examines the couple's path to power in a new PBS documentary.

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Grammy Award-winning musicians Marcy Marxer and Cathy Fink sing about the unexpected humor they encountered during Marxer's seven-year fight with breast cancer in the concert film, All Wigged Out.

'All Wigged Out' is about fighting cancer with humor and humanity

6:54am May 29, 2023

by Barry Gordemer

The movie follows partners in music and life as they battle through breast cancer — while holding onto their sense of the comically absurd

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays a writer whose husband hates the novel she's working on in You Hurt My Feelings.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus recalls the first laugh she got — and the ER trip that followed

2:05pm May 23, 2023

by Dave Davies

She was about 3 years old and had stuck raisins up her nose — but she made her mom laugh so she calls it a win. The Veep star plays a writer whose husband hates her new novel in You Hurt My Feelings.

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Joel Edgerton plays a horticulturist with a secret past as a white nationalist in Master Gardener.

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Actor Joel Edgerton avoids conflict in real life, but embraces it on-screen

11:14am May 16, 2023

by Terry Gross

Edgerton stars as a horticulturist with a secret past as a white nationalist in Master Gardener. He says director Paul Schrader challenged him be "less of an actor" in the role.

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Michael J. Fox reflects on his career and life with Parkinson's

5:25pm May 12, 2023

Actor Michael J. Fox talks about his documentary, Still, about his diagnosis with Parkinson's disease.

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Abby Ryder Fortson on her titular role in 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret'

12:04am April 30, 2023

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with actor Abby Ryder Fortson about her role playing Margaret Simon in the film adaptation of Judy Blume's classic novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

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