128. Noël Wells (actor/director) – Out of Context
Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
Big Think / Panoply
4.6 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:04.3 | Not much to it, is there? |
| 0:06.2 | Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:11.0 | Mmm, that is good. |
| 0:12.9 | Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:15.8 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:19.1 | Delicious. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi there, I'm Jason Gottz, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast. |
| 0:28.7 | 10,000 years or so of human history, and as far as we know, young adulthood hasn't gotten any less weird. |
| 0:34.8 | My guest today is actress and filmmaker Noel Wells. |
| 0:38.9 | She's been a cast member of Saturday Night Live. She played Rachel on the Netflix series Master of None, and she's making |
| 0:43.7 | her directorial debut with Mr. Roosevelt, a sweet, moving indie comedy that's ostensibly about a dead |
| 0:49.6 | cat, but that's really about that very awkward and for some of us very protracted moment of coming to terms with life as a grown-up. |
| 0:57.1 | Welcome to think again, Noah. |
| 0:58.6 | Hi. |
| 0:59.4 | I loved that intro. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah? |
| 1:01.4 | Well, having told everyone what I think your movie is about, like what do you think your movie is about? |
| 1:06.1 | Like, what do you think are movies about? |
| 1:09.6 | I have a hard time articulating it that's why i wrote |
| 1:11.8 | a movie if i was able to articulate more succinctly what it feels like to be a person kind of coming |
| 1:19.5 | to terms with responsibility and adulthood i would just write an essay you know what i but to me |
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