Apocalypse, wow

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ann Dowd, who won an Emmy for her portrayal of Aunt Lydia on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” joins Kurt to talk about playing characters — many of them terrifying — for three decades. In the 1960s, when hippies turned to Christianity in what’s commonly called the Jesus Movement, Christian rock was born. And so was a belief that the end of the world was coming any minute. And how the guitarist Stephane Wrembel’s life was changed when he discovered Django Reinhardt.

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0:00.0	From PRX
0:03.0	This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:12.5	This first level of garden.
0:13.9	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:15.7	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:17.2	Very well done.
0:18.5	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.2	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:22.9	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.2	Studio 360.
0:27.3	It's good.
0:27.9	Anderson.
0:32.3	Such spoiled girls you are.
0:35.9	Such spoiled bracts.
0:38.9	Anne Dowd won an Emmy a year ago for her great and terrifying performance in The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu.
0:45.7	She plays Aunt Lydia, an enforcer in Gilead, the Christian Theocracy America has become.
0:52.5	Anne Dowd was also nominated for an Emmy last year for playing a different kind of spooky cult
0:57.8	functionary, Patty Levin on The Leftovers on HBO.
1:02.1	You might have only heard of her lately, but you've probably been a fan without knowing it.
1:08.2	For instance, she played Tom Hanks' sister in Philadelphia, appeared lots of
1:12.4	times on Law and Order. In fact, for decades, she played dozens of scene-stealing supporting roles,
1:19.4	like last year as Vigo Mortensen's mother-in-law and Captain Fantastic, and this year,
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