I'm Sean Fennese.

I'm Amanda Dobbins.

And this is the big picture, a conversation show about Malcolm and Marie and Christopher

Plummer.

Later in this show, I'll be joined by Malcolm and Marie Reiter, director Sam Levinson,

and co-star, John David Washington, to discuss their controversial Netflix film, which was

written and produced amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

But first, Amanda and I will celebrate the life and work of the great Christopher Plummer

and talk about the hubbub surrounding Malcolm and Marie.

It's all coming up on the big picture.

Amanda, we lost the giant over the weekend of film acting, of theater acting, of television

acting, Christopher Plummer.

What was your relationship to the great Christopher Plummer?

One of the first leading men in cinema that I ever had a deep connection to.

This one was personal.

We don't really need to equate great celebrity deaths or whatever, but sometimes there are

pieces of art or people whose work influenced you at a very young age.

And it will surprise no one who listens to the big picture to know that the sound of music

was that for me.

But this was like a real I yelled, oh no, in our house and my husband was like, what happened?

It's sad.

Just one of the greats, truly, to me at least.

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