Desiree Akhavan - Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #233
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 233 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Pure actorial and directorial treats for you this week, a real powerhouse flooded with gems and gold nuggets… People, Pip is joined by DESIREE AKHAVAN!
Gems and gold nuggets all over the place. A real pleasure of a chat, as Desiree talks openly and honestly about every aspect of her creative process and inspiration, moving so gracefully from one angle to the next. You may know her from 2015’s ’Appropriate Behaviour’, or maybe more recently 2018’s ’The Miseducation Of Cameron Post’, both of which received and are in the process of receiving excellent reviews - either way, you are most definitely about to know her even more personally with the release of her new series ‘The Bisexual’, on Channel 4 this week! If you’re reading this on Podcast Wednesday, that means TONIGHT!
So indulge in this fascinating chat as Desiree goes into her Iranian-American heritage, her early playwright longings and how Iranian characters often fall into either the victim or villain category, the reinvention of narrative structure, how accurate her view of Britain is from an American perspective, how weird it is to write about love and where exes play into the mixture, life in London, her previous films including the acting maturity of ‘…Cameron Post’s Chloë Grace Moretz, honesty and preservation of dignity and not making films based around the traditional male gaze, a theory from Pip about French cinema, Desiree’s confidence in the cast and the freedom this grants and some good old fashioned social media talk. Glorious. Ladies and gentlemen and beyond - your new best friend, Desiree Akhavan!
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THIS EPISODE'S LINKS:
• THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST!
THIS EPISODE'S SPIRIT ANIMALS:
• Episode 205 • Coralie Fargeat & Matilda Lutz
• Episode 175 • S. Craig Zahler
SCROOBIUS PIP & SPEECH DEVELOPMENT LINKS:
• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on FACEBOOK
• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on INSTAGRAM
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| 0:28.0 | you can for this little creature that you love. But we don't always put that much time and |
| 0:32.8 | attention into what we need for ourselves. Like what are our basic requirements to get through |
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| 1:09.5 | B-E-T-T-E-R-H-E-L-P.com slash distraction pod. Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is episode 233 |
| 1:20.1 | of the distraction pieces podcast. How you all doing guys? It's good to be back. |
| 1:26.7 | Obviously, I haven't gone anywhere. Oh, we're here every week. But thank you for all the love of |
| 1:32.5 | recent weeks. The Josh Willer episode weren't down a treat. The Dominic Monahan one continues to be |
| 1:39.4 | a favourite and angel, Dufria before that, the legit Baronic Woman slash cyborg. They all seem |
| 1:50.5 | to be gone on absolute treats. Thank you for all the love. This week's guest, I often talk about how |
| 1:57.6 | I get more out of the podcast than any of you guys. This week's guest is an example of that because |
| 2:04.0 | as I've mentioned a few times, I'm actually, I'm absolutely rammed for guests at the moment. |
| 2:08.3 | I'm getting a lot of people pitched to me now. Whereas for the first two years, the guests were always |
| 2:13.1 | just people I chased up. Now I get people pitched every week. I turn a lot of people down. |
| 2:20.3 | And this week's guest Deseret Cavan was someone that I got pitched and I wasn't a familiar with her work |
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