359 – The Last Thing He Wanted

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Pair the rising star director Dee Rees with a Joan Didion adaptation and the Oscar-winning Anne Hathaway and you have the kind of on-paper buzz we love talking about here on THOB. But The Last Thing He Wanted, following Hathaway as a journalist whose wayward father mires her in South American arms conflict, ended up being anything but a success. Anticipated heavily on the 2019 fall festival circuit, Netflix ultimately quietly premiered the film at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and dumped it shortly after.

This episode, we talk about the film’s narrative issues and how its timely exactly pre-COVID and Netflix’s 2020 lineup allowed the film to be quickly forgotten. We also talk about Hathaway as a steadfast committed performer, Rees’ ascendancy with Mudbound and Pariah, and both Willem Dafoe and Toby Jones enter our Six Timers.

We also discuss The Witches, Ben Affleck era of exiting Batman, and Rosie Perez as Co-Worker On Phone.

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0:00.0	Oh, wrong house.
0:12.8	No, the right house.
0:13.6	I didn't get that.
0:15.0	We want to talk to Mel and Hack, Melan Hack and French. I'm from Canada water.
0:27.6	Dick, Dick Poop The border with a moral compass
0:43.7	Always a step ahead
0:46.2	Everything that happens
0:47.2	She's sourced up and imprint
0:48.5	These people are starting to move
0:50.9	Surplus arms to Contras
0:52.4	You can't just look away
0:54.0	Edition shipping crates For M16s most likely People are starting to move. Surplus arms to contras. You can't just look away.
0:57.9	In addition shipping crates for M16s, most likely.
0:59.0	He's the old man.
1:01.9	Dad.
1:04.5	I got a big deal coming.
1:05.6	The big deal.
1:16.1	Hello and welcome to the Set Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast selling teeny tiny little silver rattles as merch, if we ever do merch.
1:25.1	Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had Lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another, it all went wrong.
1:29.5	The Oscar hopes died, and we're here to perform the autopsy.'m your host chris phil and i'm here as always with the first thing i always want when i want to talk about a movie
1:37.2	uh my friend joe reed hi friend and co-host Reed. Listener, last thing he wanted.
1:46.9	The last episode we're recording before we leave for Tiff.
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