Hey y'all, I'm Sam Sanders from NPR, it's been a minute.

It's Tuesday, which means I have a conversation for you.

I am chatting with Amber Tamplin, the actress and writer.

You might know Amber from the TV show Joan of Arcadia, or from the sister to the traveling

pants movies, but these days she is best known as one of the founders of Hollywood's Times

Up Movement.

The Times Up is this group that was founded in response to the Me Too movement to support

and advocate for victims of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, specifically

for victims who might not have the resources or privilege to do so on their own.

So besides that work, Amber Tamplin is also out with her first novel.

It's called Any Man, and it is a book that dovetails with her work in the Me Too movement.

A warning for our listeners is that this book deals with sexual assault and this entire

conversation about her book deals also with that topic.

So the book called Any Man, it's about a serial rapist who is a woman, raping men, and

the framing of this book.

It totally flips the reader's perceptions of sexual assault on their head.

It made me question a lot of the assumptions I make about victims of sexual assault.

It made me question the way that we as a society talk about sexual assault, and also how I'm

helping or hurting our national conversation on the issue.

So besides that chat about the book and the themes there, you will also hear Amber talk

about how the Me Too movement has affected men close to her.

One is Quentin Tarantino, the movie director.

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