Coming Soon: Talking Pictures

Talking Pictures

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Season three of Talking Pictures is back, with a brand new lineup of guests celebrating the movies they love, this time on video. Host Ben Mankiewicz invites some of the most iconic figures in Hollywood for an intimate conversation at his home studio. Guests like Sally Field, Edgar Wright, and Susan Sarandon open up about the moments that made them, the movies that informed them, and share behind-the-scenes stories that haven’t been told. Of course, every episode ends with the Super 8, where they reveal the movies that make them laugh, cry, and that they can’t forget. From TCM and HBO Max, this is Season 3 of Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast, hosted by Ben Mankiewicz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ben Mancoitz.
0:01.5	Welcome to my home studio.
0:02.7	We named our podcast talking pictures, but for the first two seasons, there weren't actually
0:06.8	any pictures. We fixed that. Season three is on camera. I was 19. I don't want to be a nun. I don't want to play a nun. Flying. I don't want to be that either. I didn't know I had an accent. Writer director Yolkham Treer makes smoking on screen look as cool as it did in the 1940s.
0:24.7	That's. Oh, I had an accent. Writer, director, Yocum Trear, makes smoking on screen look as cool as it did in the 1940s.
0:24.7	That's a big compliment.
0:26.0	Smoking is something I've never done in my life, but something that I love in movies.
0:29.7	Director Chloe Zhao tries to remember where her Oscars are.
0:33.6	One of them is in China somewhere.
0:36.0	The other one, I think, is in storage.
0:38.3	Also, Edgar Wright, who within five minutes christens my home office.
0:43.3	I got pitched.
0:44.3	All right, go.
0:45.3	It's in cave.
0:46.3	Oh.
0:47.3	Plus, the Super 8 is back.
0:49.3	Which movie villain do you relate to?
0:51.3	Other than the ones I've played.
0:53.3	It is season three of Talking Pictures.
0:56.3	Watch on HBO Max
0:57.6	or listen wherever you get podcasts.

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