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I Never Liked You

78. What’s Happening to the Movie Star?

I Never Liked You

Matteo Lane and Nick Smith

Comedy

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re talking about the rise and fall of the “movie star.” What changed, and why does it all feel different now? Head to https://www.squarespace.com/INEVERLIKEDYOU to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code INEVERLIKEDYOU 🎧 Bonus Content: https://www.patreon.com/INeverLikedYouPodcast📺 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsU99VnaUpov58D6ttyS8L3n-j2l8Fg3L🔗 Nick: https://linktr.ee/nicksmith09🔗 Matteo: https://matteolanecomedy.com🎬 Producer: https://www.instagram.com/chris.mp4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the episode of I Never liked with Materiela Nick Smith, and today we're

0:03.3

talking about what is happening to the movie star. Do you remember this shirt? I do. That's the

0:10.6

infamous one. It's really a global epidemic that we're having. Let me just say this. You love

0:17.2

Hollywood glam. You love the untouchable sort of otherworldly.

0:24.0

I think, can I kind of guess your feelings?

0:27.1

I love the idea of celebrity.

0:29.3

You like royalty.

0:31.3

Right.

0:32.3

But I think ultimately what the actual answer is, what's happened is social media and people have become

0:38.9

too everything's become diluted right i think also people are now not being told what to like

0:45.3

but choosing what to like and a part of that is authenticity and so people see people on ticot or

0:50.6

instagram or youtube and they feel connected to them and not told to like that person and then it's sort of hard to like go back to these like ultra Hollywood glamour you know sort of royalty who sit there and boast about themselves in a way that you're like I don't even know what like what you know I just kind of want to talk like like i i basically just watch

1:11.9

youtube about video game stuff and i love and i watch red letter media which are these three

1:17.1

guys out of milwaukee just talk about movies and i adore them way more than i give a shit about

1:22.5

i don't know jalo's dress it just has changed's, exactly, it's become more diluted and more,

1:28.5

there are just stars across all platforms, like there are YouTube stars and Twitch stars and

1:32.9

TikTok stars and movie stars and all that, whereas it used to just be the entertainment

1:40.6

TV. And they didn't even often blend. Right. And the entertainment industry would tell us who the star was, basically.

1:47.7

Yeah.

1:48.0

And the tabloids would only talk about a certain number, and there only were a certain number.

1:52.2

Whereas now they're so, everyone's in a movie or a TV show.

1:55.8

And you'd have to watch once a day for half an hour in Entertainment Weekly.

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