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Death, Sex & Money

Desiree Akhavan's Breakthrough Breakup

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Akhavan’s debut feature film, Appropriate Behavior, mines the details of her own life—particularly the most uncomfortable moments. It also earned her a spot on this season of Girls. Support Death, Sex & Money by becoming a monthly sustaining member. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In film the goal was just make that first feature, make a great film that you're proud of.

0:05.0

After that happened, I had no idea any of the next steps.

0:10.0

I was like, and then you live in heaven and you know, like,

0:13.2

Playboy models make your coffee in the morning.

0:15.6

This is death, sex, and money.

0:22.0

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily.

0:25.0

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:28.0

How often do you guys have sex and need to talk about more?

0:32.0

I like money though.

0:34.3

I'm Anna Sale.

0:38.6

Filmmaker Desiree Akavon minds the details of her own life, especially the most uncomfortable ones.

0:45.0

Let's help each other through this.

0:47.0

We can't hold each other's hands through our own breakup, Desiree, that's not how it works.

0:51.0

And why did I even bother becoming a lesbian?

0:53.4

This scene is from her web series The Slope about the tagline says superficial homophobic

0:58.7

lesbians in Park Slope Brooklyn.

1:01.2

Deseret plays Deseret. She made the series with her girlfriend at the time,

1:05.8

Ingrid Youngerman, who plays Ingrid. And then they broke up in real life and in their series. Sometimes it's hard to watch. I mean we break up

1:17.2

over the course of this show. We went into the show together and if you watch the episodes you can watch us break up.

1:25.0

The last episode is called miserable best friends who used to be together

1:30.0

and I'm assuming it was filmed after you'd split up.

1:33.4

Yeah.

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