Pushkin. I knew that I was a creative person because I lived in my head a lot. I daydreamed a lot. I imagined people's lives a lot. I would just look at a person. I look at every

detail about them, how they walked, how their expression was, the shoes they were wearing, this and that.

And I would imagine their love life, what their apartment smelled like.

You came into this life with this juggernaut of whatever you are, but sometimes these creative mechanisms were survival mechanisms.

That was Juliet Lewis. I'm San Frigoso and this is Talk Easy.

Welcome to the show. Oh, Hey everyone. I'm San Frigoso. This is Talk Easy. I hope whoever you are, wherever you are, you're safe and sound and taking care of yourself and others.

I'd like to assume if you're listening you're indoors for those of you who must work

away from home right now. Thank you for doing what many of us cannot and would not

from the hospital workers to the grocery store clerks, I suspect you're a little too

busy to be listening to this podcast. But nevertheless, thank you. If you are a young person who believes they are immune, please go back inside and do what you normally do.

Tic-talk until your heart's content, I promise it will be okay.

As you can probably tell by that last sentence, I just learned what Tic-Toc was.

Don't worry about it, let's just move on.

It's a strange time to be doing a podcast, especially one like ours. But here we are.

Ten days ago I recorded this conversation with actress Juliet Lewis. It feels like ten years ago now. I can't tell if time is moving slow or fast or if I've just

been watching way too much Colombo. It's probably the Colombo. Anyway, you've likely been watching Juliet for years now.

She came to prominence in the early 90s with films like Naturalborn Killers, Cape Fear, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Basketball Diaries

from Dusk till dawn. Basically, if there was a good film made in the 90s, Juliet was probably in it. And it's here where our episode begins. In this strange period where Juliet starts working and has to navigate life as a teenager while building a career in movies.

If you're new to the show because of last week's episode,

that was a conversation I had with Dr. Ashish Shah, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.

I want to welcome you here to the podcast.

We don't typically have long-form conversations with medical experts, but we do have long-form

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