Summary
This tension is at the heart of the new movie "Tuesday," from A24, which we're talking about for this month's movie club. In the film, Death is a literal bird who visits those about to pass away.
The film was released in theaters earlier this month. It stars actor and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lola Petticrew, and Arinze Kene.
We hear from Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and the film's director Daina O. Pusic about how the movie came to be and their biggest challenges working on it.
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| 0:00.0 | On the Ted Radio Hour, linguist Anne Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person. |
| 0:10.0 | I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me but it can't be |
| 0:14.8 | singular and I will say but it is. |
| 0:17.5 | The history behind words causing a lot of debate that's on the Ted Radio of our lives. It's something we all experience, yet it's one of the |
| 0:37.2 | hardest things to accept. This tension is at the heart of the new movie Tuesday from A24. |
| 0:43.0 | In the film, Death is a literal bird who visits those about to pass away. |
| 0:48.0 | You, unique, he made my head silent. |
| 0:55.0 | What are you talking to? |
| 0:57.0 | Can you please just come out so she can see you? |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, oh, oh, oh. |
| 1:09.0 | Adam, you need to say goodbye to your order. It stars actor and comedian Julia Louis Dreyfus, Lola Pettigru, and Arinsé at Kenny. |
| 1:15.0 | I recently spoke with Julia Louis Dreyfus and the film's director, Dinah Opusic, about the film. |
| 1:20.0 | It was a story that presented itself before I necessarily knew where it was coming from or why and it felt very urgent for me to develop and it was actually through the process of developing the script and then going into pre-production that I started to |
| 1:33.4 | connect it to various aspects of my life and understand why it existed and what it |
| 1:38.5 | was. The original inspiration for it being an early experience of grief I had when I lost a very |
| 1:46.1 | dear friend of mine to a degenerative illness in our early teens. I'm Jen White |
| 1:50.4 | you're listening to the one-a podcast where we get to the heart of the story. |
| 1:54.7 | More from that conversation and what you thought of the film after the break. |
| 1:58.1 | Stay with us. |
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