Actor and Director Dev Patel is a Leading Man

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 7 April 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Actor Dev Patel has pursued interesting, complex roles in Hollywood since his arrival in Slumdog Millionaire fifteen years ago. He joins us today to discuss Monkey Man, his directorial debut and most personal project to date.

At the top, we walk through the Hindu mythology that inspired the film (12:30), his decade-long fight to get the project greenlit (16:17), and the conditions of filming on an island during the pandemic (18:08). Then, Dev describes his intense creative process (27:02), how he landed his TV debut at sixteen as a sex-crazed teenager on Skins (28:33), and his life-changing role in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (35:40).

On the back-half, Patel reflects on his years in The Newsroom (47:24), the films that followed, including Garth Davis’ Lion (49:52) and David Lowery’s The Green Knight (51:30), and how director/producer Jordan Peele saved Monkey Man from oblivion (56:32).

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0:06.5	We had a big bear of the man who was called Malad and was on roadie and uh, uh, uh, I was coming back on the plane and he said will you
0:17.0	pass the salt and pepper and I misheard him I said what?
0:21.2	Sergeant Pepper.
0:22.2	Listen to McCartney a life and their experience. I said what? What? Sorry you're better.
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0:31.0	podcasts. Pushkin. Hey, it's Sam.
0:45.0	Before we get rolling, this month actually marks the eight-year anniversary of TONCEEZ. I think we've done nearly 400 episodes in that time with people
0:57.9	I had long dreamt of sitting with when I first started the show back in 2016.
1:03.0	People like Tom Hanks, Margaret Atwood,
1:06.0	George Saunders,
1:07.0	Questlove, Jumpilahiri, David Byrne,
1:09.0	Ethan Hawk, Zady Smith, Oscar Isaac,
1:12.0	Margot Jefferson, David Sedaris, Stacy Abrams.
1:14.8	The list really does go on and on.
1:18.3	I should also add both my mother and father have come on the program.
1:22.4	If I don't mention them I will get a call on
1:25.3	Sunday morning. And yet I have to say sometimes I really do feel like we're just
1:31.2	getting started here that there's so much left to do. So many people I still like to sit with, ideas and subjects that I want to explore in further detail.
1:42.8	And so if any of these 400-ish conversations
1:46.9	have stayed with you over the past eight years,
1:49.9	inspired you to be more creative,
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