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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

Cord Jefferson

Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Minnie questions Cord Jefferson, writer and director who won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his movie, American Fiction. Cord recounts a childhood soccer practice where someone heckled him, the story behind one of the most powerful lines from his film American Fiction, and swaps stories with Minnie about extravagantly large seafood towers.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

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0:08.4

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0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built. Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to

0:26.7

like it. And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there are no girls on the

0:31.7

internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. When I say your

0:35.8

name, there's this kind of like starry-eyed thing that they get,

0:40.8

which I think is the confluence of having been educated and entertained by your film.

0:47.9

And they're just like, oh my God, like you really, whoa.

0:52.1

Like they have a very visceral response to you.

0:54.8

That's a delight to hear the fact that the movie's sticking with people.

0:58.1

To me, that's the testament of quality,

0:59.8

how frequently I think of something after I've consumed it.

1:02.7

So that's nice to hear.

1:04.7

Yeah, and I think it's a marker of something that is actually sustainable.

1:09.5

I heard a great story about Bob Dylan, remarking to his son,

1:13.7

as his son had sold, I think, six million records or something with a lot of records,

1:18.5

maybe more than a Dylan record had sold.

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