875. - Hailey Benton Gates

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Hailey Benton Gates is a model, actress, director, and journalist—her debut feature, Atropia, took the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year. We spoke with her from a hotel in Puerto Rico about pulling permits, being traumatized by Rachel Sennott's I Love LA, the scene report down Venezuela way, nicotine toothpicks, taking her braces out with a fork as a child, spitting and gleeking, using fetish to your advantage, the eyebrows tell all, Callum Turner's face, filming on a mock military base, breakfast meetings are for sex pests, the film Mash, the transition from working at The Paris Review to Vice, coconut water with pulp, and smuggling oil. instagram.com/haileybentongates twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	how long gone super tuesday here in New York City.
0:21.8	Them jeans.
0:22.3	What's Gucci?
0:23.3	Super Tuesday.
0:24.4	Yeah, I'm just over here.
0:25.5	Winter is kind of here.
0:28.0	Thanksgiving is in the air.
0:30.0	I put up my Christmas lights yesterday.
0:32.8	I was up on the big ladder.
0:34.5	16 footer.
0:35.3	Oh, shit.
0:36.3	I mean, for you, that's a regular size ladder.
0:39.3	I, I, the fact that you decorate for Christmas is one of the most fascinating things about
0:45.4	you.
0:45.9	I'm just, I just don't understand it on principle, but.
0:49.5	You're not a festive MF like I am.
0:51.7	No, it's not even about that.
0:52.9	It obviously feels nice to, like, drive down a street full of houses decorated beautifully.
0:58.1	It just seems like a lot of work just to take it down.
1:00.4	That's all.
1:01.1	It's obvious to most people.
1:03.6	For you, it's not that obvious to, but I understand, I don't know, I think it's more so, like, it would be more sad and upsetting if it wasn't decorated versus I have to take all of this shit down in one.
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