#181 Felicity Jones: On Playing Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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emma gannon

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🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Today's guest is the brilliant actor Felicity Jones, known for her previous roles in The Worst Witch, Spiderman 2, Rogue One and The Theory Of Everything which won her an Oscar nomination. Her newest role is playing the "Notorious RBG" Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in On The Basis Of Sex which is out now.

As the Guardian said recently on RBG: "At 85, she remains one of the few progressive hopes on what’s set to become an increasingly Trumpian supreme court and after the documentary RBG was a surprise box office hit this summer, timing couldn’t be better for its narrative counterpart."

Ginsburg was one of the few female lawyers at Harvard and her professors were awful and sexist to her. She worked so hard and then became one of only female justice on the Supreme Court and the gender-based laws she has changed means we can live the lives we do, so many parts were deeply moving: her relationship with her daughter, her supportive loving husband. She has spent her life fighting for social radical change and demanded laws be updated. I definitely want to try and channel even 0.1% of her levels of determination.

The script was written by RBG's nephew Daniel Stiepleman and it was directed by Mimi Leder. I recommend you going to see it immediately!

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0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to Control-Alt Delete hosted by me Emma Gannon.
1:07.0	Very excited for today's guest as I always am every week. Just love every single guest that comes on this
1:13.8	podcast. Today's guest is Felicity Jones, the brilliant actor. She's known
1:20.5	for many things being in the worst witch and playing Ethel. She's been in
1:26.2	Spider-Man 2, The Tempest, a Monster Cools and Rogue One, Star Wars Story, and many other amazing films. I loved her performance as Jane Hawking in the film The Theory of Everything alongside Eddie Redmayne and she was nominated for a Bafter, an Oscar and a Golden Globe and in 2016 she received
1:49.5	the Bafter Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year. Today I'm interviewing Felicity
1:55.6	about her newest role in an amazing film called On the Basis of Sex.
2:00.6	It's a biopicick about Supreme Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
2:06.7	aka the notorious R.B. G. She is a full-on icon and at 85 she still remains one of the most progressive hopes that we have
2:16.4	and just such an amazing woman who has really trailblazed and fought for gender
2:22.1	equality there's also been a documentary out recently and fought for gender equality.
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