Episode 123 - Minhal Baig

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Welcome back! We're excited to return with the multi-hyphenate talent Minhal Baig. She’s a story editor on “BoJack Horseman”, a writer on the forthcoming A24 show “Ramy”, and, above all, a director. Her sophomore film, called “Hala”, premiered this past week at the Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews. (Apple promptly acquired the project.) For our season 3(ish) premiere, we sat down in Park City to discuss the autobiographical nature of “Hala”, growing up in Chicago as a Muslim teenager, and how she left home and jumped headfirst into Hollywood.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	So I hit a lot because I wanted to spare my mom, you know, the disappointment that I was not ending up the model daughter that she wanted and I felt like it would be easier for her to believe the lie that I was mostly that person.
0:33.0	And then in the process of making this movie and then
0:38.0	recognizing that I only have so many years with my mom left and I want them to be honest and I don't want to be a liar for the rest of my life.
0:46.0	She came out to LA and I invited her over because it was also for her in the sense that I wanted her wanted to let her in on my life and not
0:57.5	compartmentalized these parts which I've done for so long.
1:06.0	That was Manhow Begg. I'm Sam Fregoso and this is Talk Easy.
1:11.0	Welcome to the show. Hello. Hello, hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. This is Talk Easy. If this is the first time you're listening, I want to say welcome, and if you're someone who's been listening intermittently, consistently over the past three years, welcome back.
1:52.0	We've somehow made it to the unofficial season 3
1:55.7	uh... premiere of the show. I want to say at the top
1:59.7	before we move forward, thank you to the people on this show that make it possible week after
2:07.2	a week who made it possible in 2016, 2017, 2018, and now hopefully throughout 2019.
2:15.7	Dylan Peck, Ian Jones, David Chen,
2:20.0	Valerie Attenhoffer for a long, long time,
2:23.6	Elliot Weintraub,
2:25.2	Christian Shenoy, and there are many more out there that I could not have done this without.
2:32.2	I think that also includes the people who have been listening
2:36.3	to this show since we started in April of 2016, whoever you are, wherever you are, thank you truly for being there when we started and
2:48.7	being here today.
2:51.0	You know, no one who worked on this thing is doing it because of money.
2:55.0	It's a podcast. We don't have sponsors that you hear at the top in the middle and the end of the show.
3:05.8	We're doing it now again in 2019 because I think ultimately the kind of conversation
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