From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend.

Today, actor Joel Edgerton, he stars in Paul Schrader's new movie, Master Gardener,

as a horticulturalist with a secret past as a white nationalist.

He played Anakin Skywalker's half-brother Owen Lars in Star Wars prequels

and the Disney Plus series Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Also humorous Samantha Erby talks about her new book of essays, Quietly Hostel.

Erby has made a living, writing about the stuff we all experienced but rarely say out loud.

From our daily biological functions to the New Year's resolutions we dilute ourselves into thinking will keep.

And TV critic David B. and Koolie reviews the new Netflix documentary series, Working.

It's a modern take on studs, turquels, influential 1970s book of interviews, also called Working.

The new series is hosted by Barack Obama.

That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.

This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Terry Gross.

My guest after Joel Edgerton is Australian but he's learned a lot about American racism through the roles he's played.

In the 2016 film Loving, he played Richard Loving, a white man who married a black woman

leading to the historic Supreme Court decision, Loving vs. Virginia,

the case that overturned state laws that made interracial marriage illegal.

In the streaming series The Underground Railroad, he played a determined slave catcher.

And now he stars and Paul Schrader's new film, The Third and Schrader's Trilogy of Films,

each about a lonely man who has emotionally shut down to escape the past.

Each of these films has echoes of Schrader's screenplay for Taxi Driver and his character Travis Bickle, God's Lonely Man.

As a Taxi Driver, the lead characters in each of these films is known by their profession.

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