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Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

128. Noël Wells (actor/director) – Out of Context

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

100,000 or so years of human history and young adulthood is still getting weirder.  Jason Gots: My guest today is actor and filmmaker Noël Wells. She’s been a cast member of Saturday Night Live. She played Rachel on the Netflix series Master of None. And she’s making her directorial debut with Mr. Roosevelt, a sweet, moving indie comedy that’s ostensibly about a dead 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. Surprise conversation-starter clips in this episode: Reza Aslan on what religion is for, David Eagleman on creativity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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