Episode 1106 - Thandie Newton

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

When Thandie Newton took the part of Maeve on Westworld, she had no idea the character would wind up being a perfect metaphor for her life. As Thandie tells Marc, she didn’t really understand her outsider status as a mixed-race young person in England until much later in life. That confusion created an identity issue where she spent many years without knowing who she really was. Thandie talks about how she turned that corner, how her friendship with Eve Ensler changed her life, and how speaking out about sexual abuse in Hollywood damaged her career before there was widespread awareness about the need for change. This episode is sponsored by Stitcher Premium, The Climb from Sony Pictures Classics, and Capterra.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:09.3	Alright, let's do this.
0:11.1	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucknix, what the fucka delix?
0:17.2	What the fuck, how's it going?
0:20.1	Are you alright, how's it being a...
0:23.2	Bunkered, self-isolated, sequestered by self-quarantine, nothing to do locked down.
0:34.9	How's it going?
0:36.6	Are you alright?
0:37.8	I just, man, I don't know.
0:41.0	It got pretty scary, pretty quick out here in California.
0:45.4	I don't know where you are, of course we're a little late to the game in this country,
0:49.6	but leave it to Americans, it takes a while for them to negotiate.
0:56.0	The negotiation between lizard brain and the ego can be rough-going.
1:03.6	You get the information, and lizard brain wants to react properly and take the constructive
1:10.0	measures to protect oneself, but then depending where your ego lies, maybe you still want
1:15.6	to go to that concert or you still want to go to that restaurant, you still want to go to
1:20.0	that bar, or you still want to believe that it's not real or that it couldn't happen to
1:24.4	you, ego.
1:26.9	That guy, that, I'll tell you, man, that conflict between ego and lizard brain is going to
1:32.6	be the end of us, and I'm being fairly diplomatic about it.
1:36.6	I mean, I'm the same way, I'm the same way, I mean, come on.
1:41.6	Our guest today is Tandy Newton from Westworld, and she was in the movie Crash.
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