Acting Your Age with Elsie Fisher & Molly Ringwald
The A24 Podcast
A24
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Topics covered include: the highs and lows of being a young actor, Elsie’s audition for Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham’s Vine career (RIP), why social media should have stopped at Myspace, the impossibility of not saying “Um” and “Like,” Dungeons & Dragons, the Golden State Killer, coming-of-age on screen, and why we never stop craving connection—regardless of age.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's A24, and you're listening to episode 7 of the A24 podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | Our guest today are Elsie Fisher, the 15-year-old breakout star of our summer film 8th grade, and Molly Ringwald, the 80s |
| 0:15.2 | teen icon who starred in the Generation Defining Movies, 16 Candles, The Breakfast Club, |
| 0:20.0 | and Pretty and Pink. |
| 0:21.2 | Elsie and Molly had never met before this conversation and to no |
| 0:24.4 | one's surprise they had a lot to talk about. |
| 0:27.0 | Hi I'm Elsie Fisher and I'm Molly Ringwald and we're doing the A24 podcast. It's so great to meet you. Oh yeah, this is amazing. I actually |
| 0:40.4 | binged quite a few of your movies last night and today. |
| 0:43.6 | Oh my god. |
| 0:44.6 | You're amazing. |
| 0:45.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:46.7 | Like I can't believe I've lived so many years, |
| 0:49.0 | you know, in the dark not knowing about, |
| 0:51.4 | you know, you're just amazingness. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, thank you very much. |
| 0:56.0 | If I wish my daughter were here to actually hear you say that, |
| 1:00.0 | that would be awesome. |
| 1:02.0 | So had you seen the movies before or had you I guess you'd heard about them? |
| 1:07.4 | I think I've seen the breakfast club like forever ago, but last night actually was my first time watching Pretty and Pink and 16 Candles. You and John Hughes are just power team. |
| 1:20.0 | Thank you. Well, I feel like one of the reasons why I was really interested to do this conversation is because everybody |
| 1:29.2 | has asked me for years about why people still watch the movies that I did, the movies that I made with John Hughes |
| 1:36.6 | when I was a teenager. |
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