Episode 366 - Cecil and Vincent Castellucci
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Author of books, graphic novels and comics including DC's Batgirl Cecil Castellucci (@misscecil) joins Matt, Andy and her neuroscientist father Vincent to talk about her new graphic novel memoir Girl on Film, which intertwines the story of her life in the arts and schooling at Laguardia High School of the Performing Arts with sidebars on the neuroscience of memory and a look at Vincent's life's work in that field.
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| 0:00.0 | Probably Science |
| 0:01.9 | Hey everyone, welcome to a special first time we've done this episode of Probably Science, |
| 0:17.7 | where we have a guest in studio and then Skyping in another guest |
| 0:23.7 | who happens to be very directly related to the first guest. So first of all we have Cecil |
| 0:29.3 | Castellucci who is an author, comic book writer. You've written loads of stuff, graphic |
| 0:35.0 | novels, comic books, scripts, books. |
| 0:37.6 | Not really scripts. |
| 0:39.1 | Librettoes, but not scripts. |
| 0:40.7 | Not yet. |
| 0:41.3 | My mistake. |
| 0:42.0 | I apologize for picking the less impressive of the two things. |
| 0:45.6 | And the reason we wanted to talk to you, apart of the fact that I've wanted you on the show anyway, |
| 0:50.2 | is you have a graphic novel out called Girl on Film, which is a part memoir based on your life, |
| 0:57.5 | but references the fact that your father, who is currently on the line with us as well, is a neuroscientist. |
| 1:03.2 | Yes. So Girl on Film is a memoir. It's about me wanting to be the world's greatest filmmaker. |
| 1:09.6 | That's how I decided that I was going to be an artist. |
| 1:12.0 | I thought I was going to be the greatest director that ever lived. |
| 1:15.2 | Or at least, you know, in the running of the top ten. |
| 1:18.3 | And how I failed. |
| 1:20.4 | And the whole conceit of it was that as artists, we think we're going on one trajectory |
| 1:27.1 | and we end up on a different |
| 1:28.6 | trajectory. But as I was writing the memoir, memoirs are pretty hard. I would like, you know, talk to |
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