Does This Episode Need Its Own Royal Title? with Emerald Fennell

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We love going off script for Getting Curious, but we’re staying on it with this week’s guest: the Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated writer, director, actress, and author Emerald Fennell. She and Jonathan discuss her latest project and directorial feature film debut PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, her role as Camilla Parker Bowles on THE CROWN, and so much more. PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, nominated for three Golden Globe awards, is a comedy thriller that centers on a woman, played by Carey Mulligan, who is traumatized by an event in her past and sets out for revenge. There are a few spoilers in the first segment of this episode, but we’ll give you a heads up before each one. And the film, released by Focus Features, is available on demand, so if you want to see it before listening to the episode, we’ll see you back here in 1 hour and 54 minutes. Finally, because this film addresses sexual assault, we want to be clear that we’ll be discussing this topic and, more generally, representations of trauma in popular culture, during this part of the episode. You can follow Emerald on Twitter @EmeraldFennell. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Vaness, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute
0:04.7	conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by writer, director, and actor Emerald Vannell, where I ask her,
0:15.6	does this episode need its own royal title?
0:20.1	Welcome to Getting Curious, it's Jonathan Vaness, and I'm so excited for our guest this week.
0:25.2	I'm a massive fan of all of her projects without any further ado. Welcome.
0:30.7	Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay, so I went out. I want to work through the most recent project,
0:38.3	which is stunning, and also everyone, you're going to be left to wonder, but I just
0:42.3	like overshared with Emerald like a major moment, and she's having to pivot from this
0:47.3	major personal overshared to business, and I just want to give you validation that yes, you're
0:55.0	amazing, and thank you for working with me on that overshare. So thank you.
0:59.8	I love all I ever want is an overshare. My mother's trick question, if she's sitting next to someone
1:06.5	at dinner who doesn't want to talk, or is like not very good at talking or not very forthcoming.
1:10.5	Her opening line is do you fall in love easily? Jonathan, do you fall in love easily?
1:18.5	That's the best opening line ever, and I could literally if I wasn't a more trained podcast host,
1:23.6	I could have like taken that question and like talked for 40 minutes with that eruption.
1:29.2	So that's a really such a good opening, such a good icebreaker.
1:33.9	It's good, isn't it? Is your mom from the same town that you're from?
1:37.6	Are you guys both from the same place? Or was she from a city and then she moved to your home to
1:42.3	what happened? Sure. Okay, no, so actually, she grew up in the middle of Wales in Mummutia,
1:48.9	in yeah, on a farm, and she ran away age 16 to go to King's Road, because she's in a picture of
1:56.9	it in a magazine, she was like, that's where I need to be. Oh my gosh. So she has a Welsh baby
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