Brené with Reese Witherspoon & Kerry Washington on Little Fires Everywhere

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.6 • 24.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington are true creatives and storytellers, working to make timely art that is honest and vulnerable and truth-telling. Here’s Part 2 of my conversation on Little Fires Everywhere. This episode covers how Reese and Kerry worked with a team of other creatives to bring Celeste’s words to life. We talk about the challenges and responsibilities of creating authentic, living, breathing characters with complex internal thoughts. We talk about motherhood and how it connects us, changes us, and changes as it goes. And we talk about creating art that honors ordinary, complicated people from completely different backgrounds, while connecting us all together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.0	Hi everyone I'm I'm Brennay Brown and this is unlocking us.
1:07.0	So we've got episode two of our two-part series on Little Fires Everywhere.
1:14.0	Earlier this week, I talked to Celesteing,
1:17.2	the author of the book, and today
1:19.4	we are going to talk with Reese Witherspoon and Carrie Washington who both star in the Hulu series,
1:27.0	Little Fires Everywhere, and Executive Produced the series as well. So the story goes that the book was discovered by Reese
1:36.9	prior to its publication. When the book came out, Reese featured it in her
1:42.1	Hello Sunshine Book Club, and it became an instant bestseller.
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