Episode 77 - Miguel Arteta

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Since the late '90s, director Miguel Arteta has worked in film and television to bring us multilayered comedic movies like Chuck & Buck and Youth in Revolt, as well as episodes of acclaimed shows like Six Feet Under, Freaks & Geeks, and Enlightened. This year saw the release of his latest feature, Beatriz at Dinner, a topical story of a tense dinner party between an earthy, socially conscious woman and a group of privileged corporate bigwigs. Over the course of the hour, Miguel speaks with Sam about making these and other films, focusing on physical and emotional health, righteous generational anger, and his memories of some favorite collaborators, including the late friend and filmmaker Jonathan Demme. http://www.talkeasypod.com/

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0:37.0	It was totally personal. It was about how kind I was being to myself as a result of like, you know, childhood trauma, you know, I think that I was not emotionally available to myself because stuff that
0:57.2	town in the past you know I unfairly I think I resented my father quite a bit and I think I had to find a way to forgive him and myself and it was a complicated thing for me to do.
1:15.0	But, you know, it took 20 years of therapy and that didn't get me there,
1:18.0	but being in this idyllic environment and not talking for 10 days and just walking in silence ended up
1:27.1	bringing it out of me and it brought me back to a time when I was very young and
1:32.4	I had like killed a lizard as a kid and that kind of like, you know, the reason I was weeping is I I felt so bad for that lizard and
1:45.4	uh like I was just apologizing profusely in the meditation hall saying like you know I just couldn't believe that I had done that.
1:55.0	That was Miguel Artena.
1:59.0	I'm Sam Fregoso. This is Talk Easy.
2:02.0	Welcome to the show. Oh, Miguel Artetta is the type of director whose work you have unquestionably seen, even if you do not know the director by name.
2:33.0	There's a reason for that and it's something we get into in the episode,
2:37.0	but his filmography includes Star Maps, Chuck and Buck,
2:41.0	The Good Girl, Youth and Revolt, Cedar Rapids, Alexander and the terrible,
2:47.0	horrible, no good, very bad day, and his latest film, Beatrice at Dinner.
2:53.1	He is an upcoming movie with Alia Shockat and Lindsay Birch coming on next year called
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