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Episode 378: Don’t Leave Home Without Your Sunbrella with Mari Yamamoto

Forever35

Doree Shafrir & Elise Hu

Health & Fitness, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Leisure

4.85K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Actor and writer Mari Yamamoto (Pachinko, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Rental Family) joins Doree and Elise to discuss her new film, Rental Family, and how it opens the conversation about the loneliness crisis in the digital age. Plus, they get into Mari and Elise’s time together in Tokyo, her deep commitment to the parasol as a sun shade, and why she went from being a reporter to being an actor multihyphenate. 



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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to February 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves. I'm Dori

0:16.3

and I'm Elise Hew and we are just two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

0:21.7

And we have one of Elise's old friends on today.

0:24.2

She's not just one of my old friends because we don't just let anybody come on to the show.

0:28.6

It's true.

0:29.3

Though I will say like some of my oldest friends, like my fifth grade bestie would be amazing.

0:34.1

She's hilarious and like one of my big cultural influences. But today we have on the show

0:40.3

Mari Yamamoto, another shining light whose last name is Yamamoto in our lives. But yes,

0:49.3

she is an actor, a writer, formerly, briefly, a journalist. I think she studied art when she was in

0:58.9

college and is starring in a big movie that's coming out at the end of this week called Rental

1:06.8

Family with Brendan Fraser. Perhaps you've heard of him. You know what, at least I have heard of him.

1:15.2

So we're going to get to that conversation. I also just want to note that early on in the show, we did have

1:21.7

my fifth grade bestie on who was not a famous person. Way. Oh, maybe we should do a little series.

1:29.7

Yeah.

1:30.3

So, you know, if you want to have your fifth grade bestie on, we could.

1:33.2

We could do that.

1:34.1

We also had my sister on.

1:35.6

Siblings would be rad.

1:38.9

Roger Hugh is full of stories.

1:40.9

I always say Roger Hugh is the more extroverted hue.

1:44.1

And then people are like,

1:44.8

what? What are you talking about? He's the one who likes to talk to strangers more than me.

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