Episode 847 - Lee Daniels

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Lee Daniels got his start in show business by running a nursing agency. That may seem unusual but the road to success for the producer-writer-director behind Precious, The Butler and Empire has always been unorthodox. As Lee tells Marc, the sideways nature of his path to achievement matches up with his personal life, in which he found out by phone one day that he was going to have to put the breaks on his partying and become a father to his niece and nephew.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.8	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck in the air is, what the fuck
0:14.4	nicks, what's happening, I am Mark Marin.
0:17.0	This is my podcast.
0:18.7	How's it going?
0:20.0	Today on the show, look at me, setting up the show properly.
0:22.5	Today on the show, Lee Daniels, the director, producer, writer of Empire, the Butler,
0:32.2	Monsters Ball, he's going to be here.
0:36.0	We talked for about an hour, he only had a tight window, but it was good.
0:40.6	I think we locked in and we got some stuff done.
0:43.8	Got we emotionally bonded and challenged each other a little bit and it was exciting.
0:49.1	It was moving.
0:50.1	I needed one of those.
0:51.4	I needed one of those where I'm like, this is kind of, I don't know if, making me have
0:56.0	feels.
0:57.0	Is that how the kids say it?
0:58.3	Feels?
0:59.3	Is that what we're at?
1:00.3	So, what's happening?
1:02.0	I'm sick.
1:03.0	I'm sick.
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