Today’s guest is the wildly talented Karen Gillan, the actor you know from major franchises like Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Endgame, and Jumanji, as well as her breakout role as Amy Pond on Doctor Who. Karen talks about her early days growing up in Inverness, Scotland, and how her relentless teenage ambition landed her an agent (spoiler alert: she cold-called every casting director and agent in Scotland until one of them agreed to represent her).

 

Karen’s new movie, The Life of Chuck, is in theatres everywhere now!

 

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Kevin Smith, the acclaimed film director whose comedic films and franchises include Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Jay & Silent Bob, swings by the pod to talk about the freedom of his (mostly) unsupervised childhood, his near-religious experience watching Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time with his father, and his iconic cult-classic film Dogma, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary re-release.

 

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Our guest today is Ashley Flowers, New York Times bestselling author and host of Crime Junkie, one of the biggest true crime podcasts ever, with over a billion downloads since its 2017 debut. She talks about her early life in the church, her late-night-grind to get Crime Junkie off the ground, and her theories on why crime is so fascinating. 

 

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Susan Sarandon, the actor whose five decade career has earned her six Primetime Emmy nominations and an Academy Award for Best Actress, joins the pod to talk about her early days as a God-fearing Catholic kid in New Jersey. She details the unexpected and serendipitous path that led her to acting, and talks about her new film Nonnas, about a man who risks everything to honor his late mother by opening an Italian restaurant with actual nonnas — grandmothers — as the chefs.

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Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect, True Blood) comes by to help us wrap up our YOU extravaganza. She talks severe childhood bullying and a sweet adult comeuppance, slinging drugs in jorts for the school play… as a six year old, and the moment while fully naked and exposed in Equus that almost made her break. We get into all things YOU as she unpacks her show-stealing performance as Reagan AND Maddie Lockwood.

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Production Designer: Denise Pascal
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Production Assistant - Set PA: Madison Collins
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Our YOU Season 5 celebration continues! This is part two of our YOU Season 5 finale rewatch episode with director Lee Toland Krieger. And if you want to see clips from the show, watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zp7H_9NxJso

 

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Our YOU Season 5 celebration continues! Today we're launching a two part reaction episode to the YOU S5 Finale, featuring director Lee Toland Krieger. Keep an eye out for Part 2, out tomorrow! And if you want to see clips from the show, watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/L4UZsjbCOIE  

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YOU week continues! Madeline Brewer (Handmaids Tale, Orange is the New Black) is Joe’s Final Girl and she’s here to talk about it. She shares about her days as an adolescent in Pittman, NJ and the pivotal moment she crossed the river into New York to pursue acting. And of course, she and Penn reminisce on their time working on the set of YOU together.

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[SPOILERS AHEAD] In this series finale actors roundtable (I’m not crying, you’re crying!), the incredible women of YOU come together for a conversation to discuss that epic finale, intuition and erasure, and how they worked together to seal Joe’s fate. Featuring Madeline Brewer, Tati Gabrielle, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Charlotte Ritchie, and Anna Camp. [Watch the episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/qAr3KFeejO4]

 

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Associate Producer / Assistant Editor: Jesse Williams

Director of Photography: Charlee Harrison

Camera Operator: Dylan Endike

Camera Operator: Stacy Mize

Gaffer: Graeme Dempsey

Key Grip: Chris Angarone

Production Designer: Denise Pascal

Sound Mixer: Sergio Reyes-Sheehan

Sound Mixer Assistant: Chris Barone

Sound Mixer Assistant: Dylan Andrew Lappin

Production Assistant - Set PA: Madison Collins

Production Assistant - Set PA: Jay Hernandez 

 

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To kick off our celebration of the release of YOU Season 5, we're doing a two part reaction episode to the YOU S1 Pilot, featuring director Lee Toland Krieger.

 

And preorder our new book, Crushmore, here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crushmore/Nava-Kavelin/9781668077993

 

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