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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Extended cut: Dakota Johnson on her new doc, childhood, and curating a sex museum

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today we're giving you a chance to hear an episode that we'd usually share with our Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me+ supporters! It's an extended cut of our interview with actor, producer, and activist Dakota Johnson, whose new documentary is The Disappearance of Shere Hite.

That's right — an extended cut. Our celebrity interviews sometimes last much longer than what we're able to include in our regular show. Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me+ supporters can hear extended cuts in regular bonus episodes. They also get a chance to play a special news quiz game over zoom with Peter Sagal and Wait Wait staffer! To find out more, and to hear our regular show without sponsor messages, sign up for Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me+ at plus.npr.org

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0:00.0

Support for this podcast and the following message come from the Southern Environmental Law Center and its podcast Broken Ground.

0:06.8

This season, meet the environmental storytellers reimagining how people get their news.

0:11.7

New episodes available wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:14.7

Hey, it's Peter Segal.

0:19.7

So, uh, it's the season of giving, right?

0:22.3

And we had wait, wait, of giving, right? And we at Wait Wait, of course, are in a giving mood,

0:25.0

so we're here with an episode that we would normally only share

0:30.0

with our Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Plus Supporters,

0:32.0

but this spirit of Christmas

0:34.7

visited me in my sleep last night and all of a sudden I have a new perspective so

0:38.6

we're going to share it with everyone it is an extended cut of our recent interview with actor, producer, and activist Dakota Johnson.

0:46.5

That's right. An extended cut. In our regular show, we normally have time to broadcast about six or seven minutes of our celebrity

0:55.0

interviews.

0:56.0

Got a lot else we need to do, right?

0:57.5

But often, we bother those celebrities for much longer.

1:01.7

And Dakota Johnson was very kind, and she let us do that. We asked

1:05.5

her more about her work on the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy, her movie star parents

1:11.2

and grandparents,

1:13.0

and her new documentary about the legacy of feminist

1:17.1

sex researcher Cher Height.

1:19.1

It's called The Disappearance of Cher Height.

1:21.3

And just a little editorial comment here it is really

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