Episode 21 - Melanie Lynskey
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this week's show, Sam is joined by the great and talented actress Melanie Lynskey. Hailing from New Zealand, Lynskey got her start at 15 in Peter Jackson's 'Heavenly Creatures', co-starring a young Kate Winslet. She has since gone on to play roles on everything from 'Two and a Half Men' and 'Shattered Glass' to 'Up in the Air' and 'Happy Christmas'. In the episode, Lynskey shares revealing stories from growing up in New Zealand, getting engaged to a man she only knew for three weeks, working with Charlie Sheen and Ed Norton, navigating a career as a character actress, and getting to act in a Steven Soderbergh movie. Music for the show by Vanilla @vanilla. Original illustrations by Krishna Shenoi http://krishnabalashenoi.com/.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:09.6 | What do poll dancing, AI Chappots and diet culture all have in common. |
| 0:13.7 | These subjects have a home on Embodied, the award-winning podcast I host from North Carolina |
| 0:17.8 | Public Radio W-U-N-C. |
| 0:20.3 | My name is Anita Rao, and you can consider me your personal guide to taking on the taboo. |
| 0:25.0 | Join me to explore important questions about our bodies and our society, where nothing is off limits. |
| 0:31.0 | So go ahead, listen to Embodied every Friday wherever you get your podcasts. Oh, Hey everyone. Welcome to Talk Easy. A weekly podcast of intimate interviews with the people shaping our culture today. |
| 1:03.6 | I'm Sam Fregoso, thank you for tuning in. |
| 1:06.4 | This week on the show we have the one and only wonderful actress Melanie Linsky's |
| 1:12.1 | career on the screen started at the age of 16 in Peter Jackson's Oscar-nominated |
| 1:17.3 | film Heavenly Creatures. |
| 1:19.3 | It was a hell of a debut and one that modestly but effectively laid the path for the rest of her career. |
| 1:25.7 | Born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, it was only a matter of time before Melanie left home. |
| 1:31.0 | She was L.A. Bound, ready to pursue her passion. |
| 1:34.0 | Through the late 90s and early 2000s, it wasn't exactly smooth sailing though. |
| 1:39.0 | She picked up bit parts in films like, |
| 1:41.0 | but I'm a cheerleader in Sweet Home, Alabama. But then a break came. in by Charlie Sheen in two and a half men. |
| 1:53.2 | Whatever you may think of that show, and that's something we get into in the conversation, it's |
| 1:57.4 | hard to deny how much it helped Lindsay's career. |
| 2:00.7 | From there, Bit Parts turned into substantial supporting parts in movies like Shatter Glass, |
| 2:05.9 | Flags of Our Father, Up in the Air, The Informant, and so many more. |
| 2:11.1 | Point is, Melanie has had an interesting career and an even more interesting life. |
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