TIG Nataro is in my ears pretty often these days. I've become a seriously committed listener to her podcast, Handsome, which she makes along with comedians May Martin and Fortune Feimster. And so I have felt like over the last year, I've listened along as TIG talked about making a documentary about her friend Andrea Gibson. TIG told us how beautiful the filmmaking process was, what a joy it was to share the film with audiences as Sundance, with Andrea there, how it was so warmly received and ultimately won the audience award. And I heard Tig tell us about the end of

Andrea's life in July from ovarian cancer. TIG was among Andrea's loved ones who were there.

The documentary that they made about Andrea's life is called Come See Me in the Good Light, and it was just released on Apple TV.

It was filmed beginning when Andrea's cancer was declared incurable, and it is a powerful film.

I felt like I was getting to be alongside someone who felt very much like a friend,

who was letting me in as they looked straight on at the end of their life.

So it was a real privilege to get to talk to TIG Nataro about making this film and her friendship with Andrea,

which also included, I learned, a pop-up recording session of a song collaboration after TIG's own cancer diagnosis in 2012.

Tignitaro has been on death, sex, and money before. Back in 2018, we talked about her cancer diagnosis and treatment,

and also falling in love with her wife Stephanie and having their twin boys who were two at the time.

There's a link in our show notes to that episode.

Tig's twins are now nine, TIGs in her mid-50s, a time of life when you can start to lose peers,

including dear friends at a faster clip.

And like she has done with a lot of difficult moments in her life,

TIG made art about it. And for this film about Andrea, she involved a lot of friends and colleagues,

including her boss at Star Trek. He gave me this money, some money for the movie. And a few months ago,

he reached out and he was like, oh my God, I am reading Andrea Gibson's poetry. And I'm stunned.

And I was like, yeah, dip shit. I was like, that's what this.

Aw. He's just doing you a solid by giving you a check, having not read her Andrew's work.

Yeah. And then he was like, oh, he was like, I know, I'm sorry. I just, can you just accept that I'm now like blown away? I can't even, he was like, I don't even know. I'm sorry. He goes, can you just accept that I'm now like blown away? I can't even,

he was like, I don't even know what to do with myself. So there's nothing better than having people respond in that way.

This is death, sex, and money.

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