Diane Lane

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 3 October 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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At the age when most kids are finding their way around the halls of elementary school, Diane Lane was touring the world as an actress. By the time she was a teenager, she became a household name after starring alongside Laurence Olivier in the film A Little Romance. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the star to talk about her more than four decades on screen, including her latest role as the President of the United States in a new series that takes place in a post-apocalyptic, pandemic-stricken world.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.6	My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.8	Got another good one dialed up for you today.
0:12.5	Just a great actress, incredibly classy actress and an actress who has seen it all.
0:18.5	She began her career at six years old.
0:21.3	She has an amazing personal story.
0:23.0	I'm talking of course about the Oscar nominated Diane Lane.
0:27.4	We can go back to a little romance in 1978, 1979 where she co-starred at 14 years old
0:33.1	with Lawrence Olivier.
0:35.4	We can talk about the outsiders and all the Francis Ford Coppola movies she did.
0:39.2	We can jump ahead to the perfect storm.
0:41.4	We can jump to unfaithful for what she was nominated for that Oscar for best actress.
0:46.5	We can do under the Tuscan sun.
0:48.7	I know I'm probably leaving out your favorite movie but I think we should just let her talk
0:52.5	about them instead of me.
0:54.6	She's just great to talk with, incredibly smart, interested in the world, super engaged,
1:00.7	has a lot on her mind about what's happening in the world right now and also has a new
1:04.6	series out.
1:05.9	It's called Why the Last Man.
1:09.2	Premises, there's a cataclysmic event, let's call it, that wipes out any one and anything
1:16.3	with a Y chromosome on Earth.
1:19.3	So let's do the math on that.
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