Culture Gabfest: Babygirls and Nickel Boys

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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On this week’s show, Slate staff writer Nadira Goffe sits in for Stephen. First, the panel explores Babygirl and its kinks. The latest feature from Dutch writer-director Halina Reijn stars Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson, and is fascinated by sex (mostly, as a concept.) Then, the three puzzle over Nickel Boys and the film’s audacious use of first-person point-of-view in filmmaker RaMell Ross’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys. Finally, what does a Hollywood smear campaign look like? The trio discusses the messy legal and PR conflict embroiling Blake Lively and former It Ends With Us co-star and director, Justin Baldoni. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel checks in with Julia and production assistant Kat, as they share their experiences of the L.A. wildfires. Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Endorsements: Nadira: Transa by Red Hot Org. Specifically, “Is It Cold In The Water” performed by Moses Sumney and ANOHNI. Julia: Niksa sleep masks. Dana: Exploring your local college radio stations. She likes WFUV (owned by Fordham University) and Columbia University’s WKCR. Podcast production by Vic Whitley-Berry. Production assistance by Kat Hong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Trevor, are you ready?
0:01.8	Ready.
0:02.8	It's time to seize it.
0:05.0	Yes, let's seize it.
0:07.9	Seize what exactly?
0:09.6	Seize the sale at Argos for your last chance to save on thousands of products.
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0:15.1	Got it.
0:15.7	To Argos.
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0:37.6	Hello, I'm Dana Stevens, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, Baby Girls and Nickel Boys edition.
0:43.3	It's Wednesday, January 15th, 2024, and on this week, we will be discussing two new movies.
0:54.5	Baby Girl stars Nicole Kidman as the CEO of a robotics company, whose relationship to her own sexuality is somewhat robotic itself until she embarks on an affair with a much younger man, an intern at her firm who intuitively senses her need to be sexually dominated.
0:58.3	Next, we'll talk about Nickel Boys, an adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel by that title
1:02.7	from the director Rommel Ross, who adopts a radical first-person perspective camera
1:07.0	technique to show us the world from the perspective of two young black men at a sadistically
1:11.3	run boarding school for boys, all based on horrific real-life events.
1:15.8	Finally, we'll discuss the legal and public relations battle currently taking place between
1:19.8	Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, the two actors who starred in the recent film it ends with us,
1:24.7	also directed by Baldoni. Since that movie's released last summer,
1:28.5	its co-stars have become embroiled in a complicated feud that has taken place on several fronts at
1:32.8	once, on the promotional tour for the movie, during which the two actors pointedly did not appear
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