Don't Know Her?

It is time to celebrate the hugely talented Samantha Morton!

In this episode, we dive into her filmography and talk about Sweet And Lowdown (Woody Allen, 1999), Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002), Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002), In America (Jim Sheridan, 2002), She Said (Maria Schrader, 2022) and The Whale (Darren Aronofsky, 2022).

We then ponder Samantha's future work and come up with some creative suggestions!

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We love a Don’t Know Her? actor success story. So, to celebrate Michelle Yeoh's historic Best Leading Actress Oscar win for Everything Everywhere All At Once we are re-releasing our episode on this newly Academy Award-winning legend. We hope you enjoy!

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This week we talk about the cinematic icon Michelle Yeoh and celebrate another career peak in 2022 with her transcendent performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniels).

Yeoh's work has constantly traversed genres and stereotypes, making her a mould-breaking star. We cover her fascinating filmography from her debut Yes, Madam! (Corey Yeun, 1985) through to Everything Everywhere All At Once, and so much in between including Tomorrow Never Dies (Roger Spottiswoode, 1997), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000), Memoirs Of A Geisha (Rob Marshall, 2005), The Lady (Luc Besson, 2011) and Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu, 2018).

Michelle is truly a singular actor of her time. Michael then tests Scott’s knowledge of on-screen mothers in 2022 cinema before they hop into sharing their wishes for Michelle’s future film career... We just want everything for her alongside her jam-packed slate!

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LINK TO BRENDAN FRASER EPISODE: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/dont-know-her/id1562643080?i=1000558921340k

We are going back in time to celebrate a three-time Oscar nominee of the 1950s and The Baroness(!) Eleanor Parker.

Eleanor was a big star of Hollywood's Golden Age with co-stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra and John Wayne yet largely is remembered for her role in The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965).

Join us as we dive into Eleanor's career and ponder why she is not as famous as her contemporaries. We discuss her thrilling rise to fame; her Oscar-nominated roles (Caged (John Cromwell, 1950), Detective Story (William Wyler, 1951) and Interrupted Melody (Curtis Bernhardt, 1955)); her iconic performance as The Baroness in The Sound of Music; and her career into the 1970s and beyond.

We then wrap up our Eleanor Parker episode by sharing some film roles we’d have loved to have seen her take on in her career.

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NOTES

A letter from The Baroness from The Sound of Music: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-regret-to-inform-you-that-my-wedding-to-captain-von-trapp-has-been-canceled

Link to Caged online: https://archive.org/details/Caged1950

It is time to talk about F. Murray Abraham! After winning the Academy Award for Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984) we look into his career before and after to see if he indeed was a victim of the Oscar curse...

Alongside his golden moment, we cover The Ritz (Richard Lester, 1976), Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983), The Name Of The Rose (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986), Thir13en Ghosts (Steve Beck, 2001), Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014).

This episode’s quiz sees Scott test Michael on famous songs and songwriters being depicted in films.

We then wrap up as we always do, with some fantasy suggestions for the future of our star, F. Murray Abraham.

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We are talking about all things Marcia Gay Harden for episode 46!

Marcia Gay is a perfect subject for this Oscar miniseries as she surprised many by scooping the Best Supporting Actress award at the 73rd Academy Awards for Pollock (Ed Harris, 2000). She coupled this with a second Oscar nomination in the same category for Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003). What a thrill indeed.

We dive into Marcia Gay's filmography and discuss Miller’s Crossing (Joel Coen, 1990), The First Wives Club (Hugh Wilson, 1996), Flubber (Les Mayfield, 1997), The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007) and Whip It (Drew Barrymore, 2009).

And, as is the norm, we have a little quiz with Michael testing Scott’s knowledge of onscreen therapists. We then wrap up with some fantasy suggestions for Marcia Gay’s future film work.

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Happy New Year! Wipe away your January Blues with this celebration of the legendary Dianne Wiest.

Having twice triumphed at the Academy Awards, Dianne will be the first entry in our miniseries looking at some Oscar winners who didn’t quite get the career traction we’d have expected following their golden moments.

We leap into our conversation with her Oscar-winning roles in Hannah And Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen, 1986 & 1994) before navigating through other key touch points in her career: Parenthood (Ron Howard, 1989), Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990), Rabbit Hole (John Cameron Mitchell, 2010) and I Care A Lot (J Blakeson, 2020).

Michael then takes on this episode’s quiz in a game called North, East, South, Wiest before we wrap up by suggesting some dream roles we’d love to see Dianne get the chance to take on.

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Join us as we honour the top-tier talent of Lesley Manville and celebrate Michael’s birthday! 

Lesley has thrilled film and tv lovers alike with her reliably riveting performances. In this episode, we dive into her filmography and focus on Mike Leigh's All Or Nothing (2002) and Another Year (2010), Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) and Mrs Harris Goes To Paris (Anthony Fabian, 2022).

We then cast our eyes to some of her costars for a quiz; can Michael identify the Oscar nominees she has starred alongside along the way?

Finally, we then wrap things up with some wishes for things we’d love to see her get the chance to take on in the future.

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This week we talk about the cinematic icon Michelle Yeoh and celebrate another career peak in 2022 with her transcendent performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniels).

Yeoh's work has constantly traversed genres and stereotypes, making her a mould-breaking star. We cover her fascinating filmography from her debut Yes, Madam! (Corey Yeun, 1985) through to Everything Everywhere All At Once, and so much in between including Tomorrow Never Dies (Roger Spottiswoode, 1997), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000), Memoirs Of A Geisha (Rob Marshall, 2005), The Lady (Luc Besson, 2011) and Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu, 2018). Michelle is truly a singular actor of her time.

Michael then tests Scott’s knowledge of on-screen mothers in 2022 cinema before they hop into sharing their wishes for Michelle’s future film career... We just want everything for her alongside her jam-packed slate! 

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Welcome to Don't Know Her? and the first episode in a series focused on actors who are having significant career moments in 2022!

We are kicking this off with this year’s winner of Best Actress in a Leading Role at the BAFTAs, Joanna Scanlan. Joanna won for her tremendous work in After Love (Aleem Khan, 2020) which made us all the more excited to talk about her. As well as that gem, we dipped back into Joanna’s filmography to discuss other significant entries in her film career including The Invisible Woman (Ralph Fiennes, 2013), Pin Cushion (Deborah Haywood, 2017), Notes On A Scandal (Richard Eyre, 2006) and Bridget Jones’s Baby (Sharon Maguire, 2016). 

Michael then quizzes Scott on how well he knows his BAFTA-winning performers.

And we round off the episode with some personal wishes for fantasy film roles we’d die to see Joanna take on...

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Thank you for joining us for this episode on an Irish legend, Fionnula Flanagan. As a star of Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others (2001), she felt perfect for our second Halloween ‘22 instalment...

We also go beyond that spooky favourite and dive into some of her other most noteworthy film work, including James Joyce’s Women (Michael Pearce, 1985), Waking Ned (Kirk Jones, 1998), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Callie Khouri, 2002) and The Guard (John Michael McDonagh, 2011).

In keeping with the theme, Scott then quizzes Michael on some iconic stars of Halloween favourites. How will he fare in identifying some iconic Scream Queens?

We then wrap up the episode by pitching a fantasy film role we’d adore to see land at Fionnula’s feet in the not-too-distant future. 

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