Cruella
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Slate’s movie critic Dana Stevens is joined by Slate staff writer, Dana Stevens, to spoil Cruella, the new Disney live-action origin story for one of it’s most infamous villains, Cruella de Vil.
Who was Cruella before she became the Cruella we all know and hate? This teen-friendly backstory holds the answers.
Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.
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Podcast production by Morgan Flannery.
Hosts
Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic.
Karen Han is staff writer at Slate and you can read her review here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.9 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:07.0 | I see this. |
| 0:10.0 | Silent freed is people. |
| 0:13.9 | No. |
| 0:15.5 | I am the father. |
| 0:17.8 | Oh, Rush, right. |
| 0:23.2 | What's in the box? What's in the box? |
| 0:26.9 | You blew it up. |
| 0:28.8 | You blew it up. |
| 0:31.8 | Damn you all the hell. |
| 0:35.5 | Hello, and welcome to another Slate spoiler special. |
| 0:37.5 | I am Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic. And today I am joined by Karen Hahn, staff writer at Slate. Hello, and welcome to another Slate spoiler special. I am Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic. |
| 0:41.1 | And today I am joined by Karen Hahn, staff writer at Slate. Hello, Karen. Hi, Dana. So nice to spoil another movie with you. Yeah, I think this is going to be a fun one to talk about. I just read your review. And I have lots to say about it. So the movie we're talking about this week is Cruella, |
| 0:52.5 | the origin story for the 101 Dalmatians character, |
| 0:56.0 | directed by Craig Gillespie, |
| 0:57.3 | the new, |
| 0:58.0 | um, say about it. So the movie we're talking about this week is Cruella, the origin story for the |
| 0:54.4 | 101 Dalmatians character, directed by Craig Gillespie, the new, you know, Disney cartoon-turned, |
| 1:01.3 | live-action movie. I don't know what we're calling this genre that now exists that are there |
| 1:05.4 | several examples of every year. But yeah, it's a reboot of the old Cruella IP. So I just saw this movie |
| 1:15.4 | today and just read your review for it. And I have tons of thoughts about it. But since you're |
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