Episode 1255 - Barry Jenkins

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Barry Jenkins is grateful that he's been able to harness the tools of filmmaking in order to tell the stories of his ancestors. Barry and Marc get into all the details of making the ten-part series The Underground Railroad and how Barry differentiates between the projects he's made with his head and the ones he's made with his gut. The also talk about Moonlight, bringing James Baldwin's words to the screen, and why it was important to have an on-set counselor for this recent undertaking.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:11.2	How are you with the fuckers?
0:12.4	What the fuck buddies?
0:13.5	What the fuck nuts?
0:14.6	What's happening?
0:15.6	How are we?
0:16.7	How are we doing?
0:18.2	How are you?
0:19.2	They...
0:20.2	He...
0:21.2	She...
0:22.2	It...
0:23.2	Vow.
0:24.2	How is Vow?
0:25.2	What's happening?
0:26.2	Today on the show, I talk to uh...
0:28.8	Barry Jenkins.
0:29.8	He's director of Moonlight.
0:31.5	He directed if Bill Street could talk.
0:34.3	And he directed a medicine for Melancholy.
0:37.7	And his latest project is the limited series for Amazon Prime video, The Underground Railroad,
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