Episode 888 - Tracy Letts

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Tracy Letts is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, a Tony Award-winning actor, and someone Marc is nervous about saying hello to when he sees him out in the world. Tracy tries to disabuse Marc of that concern as they talk about the difficult process of writing plays, the compromises made when turning a play into a movie, the pleasures of being in Lady Bird, the fear he had on the set of The Post, and the benefits of being married to another actor.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.9	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucksters, what's happening,
0:14.6	I'm Mark Marin, this is my podcast.
0:18.0	Big day today.
0:19.8	Big fan of the guy who's on today, Tracy Letz is here.
0:23.8	He's a playwright and actor, he might know him from the most recent film, Lady Bird, he plays
0:32.0	Molly Shannon's husband on that show Divorce, he was in the post.
0:38.9	Letz is here, he wrote Bug, he wrote Killer Joe, he wrote August Austage County, I love
0:45.2	the way he acts.
0:46.5	I feel like I know the guy and it was great to have him in here to talk to him, it was
0:51.4	nice.
0:52.4	It was fun, it was familiar, it's weird when I get it in my mind that I know somebody,
0:57.4	I act like I know him and then either it takes or it doesn't.
1:01.9	That's my style.
1:03.7	If I think I know you, I'll try to impose that on you.
1:10.3	And I did that, I did that with Letz to some success, I must say.
1:14.8	I feel like we're close, I feel like we're friends, I feel like we can hang out, I feel
1:18.2	like we can talk more, I also feel like I'll never see him again.
1:22.0	I've got to see him out of the award show, which I did see him out of the award show.
1:24.7	I saw him at the critics award show and then we talk about, I talk about my problem with
1:33.9	approaching people at award shows and it yields something at the end.
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