Bonus: Susanna Fogel on Her New Movie, 'Cat Person'

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🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Meredith sits down with director Susanna Fogel to discuss Susanna’s new movie, "Cat Person," based on the buzzy 2017 short story by Kristen Roupenian in The New Yorker. They discuss Susanna’s decision to cast Nicholas Braun and Emilia Jones as romantic leads; the role that friends play in sussing out potential partners; and why "Cat Person," the story, stirred so much contentious debate — Susanna calls it a "weird Rorschach test for people's own [stuff]." Email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Meredith.
0:01.8	Listeners of Love Letters know that mental health is something I take very seriously, which
0:06.0	is why I want to tell you about season three of the podcast Turning Points, Navigating
0:10.2	Mental Health.
0:11.8	Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of Navigating Mental Health and the Turning
0:16.2	Points that can spark lifelong changes.
0:19.3	Post Francis Lease, a clinical therapist, talks with psychologists, dualists, writers
0:24.5	and experts about breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between.
0:29.6	We're going to be talking about two of my very favorite things, movies and dating.
0:51.6	I am here with director Susanna Fogel, who is a longtime friend of mine, and she's
0:55.8	actually done a Love Letters event in person, pre-2020.
1:00.0	So I met her years ago in a very weird way.
1:02.7	She was actually attached as a writer to adapt one of my books.
1:06.9	That adaptation did not happen, but we stayed in touch, and she's done films and TV shows.
1:12.3	She directed and co-wrote The Spy Who Dumped Me, which is hilarious and one of my favorite
1:16.6	buddy adventure movies.
1:18.5	Also Susanna directed The Pilot of the Flight Attendant, a show I was obsessed with.
1:23.1	It is very good if you haven't seen it.
1:24.6	It kind of got me through some of the darkest days of the pandemic.
1:28.3	So Susanna's new film, which comes out October 6, is Cat Person, based on the very buzzy
1:33.9	New Yorker story of the same name by Christian Repenion.
1:37.9	The original story was published at the end of 2017, and I remember this because at the
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