Episode 20 - Charlene deGuzman
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Charlene deGuzman made waves on the internet three years when her short film, "I Forgot My Phone," which she wrote and starred in, went viral. Now she's back with a new, much bigger project, trying to fund her first feature film "Unlovable," on Kickstarter. The film—which was conceived by herself and Mark Duplass, and has the backing of Patton Oswalt—is about a young woman coping with sex and love addiction. It's an affliction deGuzman has been dealing with personally for much of her life, and in this interview she talks with Sam about her experiences in sex work, bad relationships, and finding solutions to the problem of sex and love addiction. Plus, she shares what it's like for a video to go wildly viral, and how smartphones and the internet have made life harder and better at the same time. If you'd like to help Charlene get "Unlovable" made, please head to the project's Kickstarter page and donate what you can: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/603048956/unlovable?ref=filmpress Music for the show by Vanilla @vanilla. Original illustrations by Krishna Shenoi http://krishnabalashenoi.com/.
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| 1:06.0 | I'm Sam Vorgoso. Thank you for tuning in. |
| 1:09.0 | This week on the show we have rising writer, actress, and comedian Charlene de Guzman. I first saw Charlene in a two minute |
| 1:16.4 | short film a few years back called I forgot my iPhone. Chances are, considering the video |
| 1:21.6 | has nearly netted 50 million views on YouTube, you've seen it too. |
| 1:25.9 | The movie is a quick, timely, and funny snapshot of the technology-consuming world we live in today, |
| 1:32.3 | and probably tomorrow. It was after that short but sweet video |
| 1:36.9 | that Charlene started to gain traction. She was also an early adopter of |
| 1:41.8 | Twitter putting out equally biting and revealing tweets |
| 1:45.6 | 140 characters at a time. |
| 1:48.7 | In her work and on her Twitter feed, she candidly discusses dating, sex, depression, Hollywood, and everything in between. |
| 1:57.0 | Now she's doing a kick-starter to fund her semi-autographical debut feature called Unloveable, |
| 2:02.0 | a story about a woman trying to get her life |
| 2:04.6 | in order while dealing with her sex and love addiction, something Charlene has been struggling |
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