185. Should We Stay & Fight, Leave, or Do Nothing? with Sarah Polley

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We saw the film WOMEN TALKING and we couldn’t rest until we had the chance to speak with the genius who wrote, directed, and is nominated for an Oscar for it: Sarah Polley. This conversation is about hope, survival, imagination, and revolution. It’s about burning it all down and building from the ashes. Please listen to this conversation and then please watch the film. You will be powerfully changed. CW // sexual assault About Sarah: SARAH POLLEY is an Oscar-nominated director and award-winning actor whose works include Away From Her, Take This Waltz, and Stories We Tell. As an actor, Polley starred in a variety of films including The Sweet Hereafter, Go, Dawn of the Dead, Mr. Nobody, and My Life Without Me. In 2022, Polley released an autobiographical collection of essays – Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory. More recently, Polley wrote and directed the film adaptation of Miriam Toews’s novel Women Talking, which has since been nominated for several awards, including the Academy Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards, and Golden Globe Awards. IG: @realsarahpolley

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0:00.0	Today's conversation is with the absolutely incredible Sarah Polly, who is the Oscar-nominated
0:10.2	director and screenwriter of the most powerful film I've ever seen women talking.
0:16.4	In this conversation, which contains a lot of laughter and joy and hope, we also talk
0:23.6	about sexual assault, including Sarah's experiences and mine, so please take care of yourselves.
0:32.9	If you need to skip this one for those who listen, I think it will be a source of hope
0:38.1	and joy for you as it was for me.
0:49.8	Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. I am just going to tell you as a disclaimer, I'm feeling a little bit
0:56.8	nervy because I feel like the person that we're talking to today, I just feel like the work she's
1:03.8	doing is so freaking important. So I am going to just do my best. Okay, Sarah Polly is an Oscar-nominated
1:13.4	director and award-winning actor whose works include Away From Her, Take This Waltz and Stories
1:19.4	We Tell. As an actor, Polly starred in a variety of films including The Sweet Hair After, Go, Dawn
1:25.4	of the Dead, Mr. Nobody in My Life Without Me. In 2022, Polly released an autobiographical collection
1:33.0	of essays run towards the danger, confrontations with the body of memory. More recently, Polly
1:39.8	wrote and directed the film adaptation of Miriam Taves novel, Women Talking, which has since been
1:47.0	nominated for several awards, including the Academy Awards, Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globe
1:53.2	Awards. If it doesn't win the Oscar, we all... We be pissed. Okay, we all march. So Sarah, I started
2:05.1	getting to know you a few months ago. I read your book, run towards the danger, loved it so much
2:11.9	that I immediately watched your documentary, loved that so much that I immediately watched women
2:17.5	talking and then I haven't stopped thinking about all three of them. Well, ever for the past few
2:25.8	months. So I go for these walks in the morning and you and I during these walks for the last few
2:33.5	months have been having the most amazing conversations. She comes back and I'm like, so how did
2:38.8	you and Sarah do? Like, what did you guys talk about? Yes, I really appreciate this because I walk
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