Episode 71 - Giancarlo Esposito
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, Malcolm Glabel here. |
| 0:11.0 | A little while back, I became obsessed with stories that fell apart. |
| 0:15.3 | Specifically, Hollywood projects that fell apart and why they did. |
| 0:18.9 | So I started calling up everyone I knew in Hollywood and asked them to pitch me their favorite idea, the one that broke their heart because it never got made. |
| 0:27.0 | These stories were so good, and we decided to turn them into a series on revisionist history. |
| 0:32.0 | We're calling it development |
| 0:34.5 | hell the dreaded phrase known in Hollywood ever wants to hear, the one that describes |
| 0:39.7 | the purgatory, where once promising scripts go to die. |
| 0:45.0 | There's going to be name dropping, celebrity gossip, endless digressions, |
| 0:49.0 | a story that was way too shocking for the studios, |
| 0:51.0 | one that was told from the point of view of an exotic pet. |
| 0:55.2 | And about the wild ride we went on trying to adapt my book, Blink. |
| 0:58.6 | I can't wait to share it all with you. |
| 1:01.6 | Listen wherever you get your podcasts and as always you can listen to all |
| 1:05.5 | of Revision's History ad free by subscribing to Pushkin Plus. You know I want to enjoy more of my life because my childhood went so quick because I was working. I didn't do all the things that |
| 1:26.9 | kids did, but when my work turned to play, it was delicious and now my work is constant play |
| 1:32.4 | because it's allowing me to learn more about |
| 1:35.5 | the world. |
| 1:37.2 | I went to two years of college. |
| 1:38.8 | I wanted to go to four. |
| 1:39.8 | I wanted to maybe be a chiropractor or an archaeologist. |
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