Film Icons: Steven Spielberg / Carrie Fisher

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🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In 2022, E.T. and Jaws director Steven Spielberg talked about how he fell in love with film, and how he was afraid of everything as a kid. We'll also revisit our 2016 interview with actor Carrie Fisher about what it was really like to become a sex symbol as Princess Leia.

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0:00.0	Truth, independence, fairness, transparency, respect, excellence.
0:07.0	This is NPR. From W.HYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Sam Brigger.
0:22.5	From now through Labor Day, we're featuring interviews from our archive with great actors
0:26.4	and directors.
0:27.7	On this episode, we'll hear from Stephen Spielberg.
0:30.6	He'll talk about how he fell in love with film. The very first movie he saw both enchanted
0:35.8	and terrified him. But the man who made Jaws emits a lot of things scared him as a kid.
0:41.3	Everything. There was nothing that didn't scare me.
0:45.0	I was afraid of everything.
0:46.4	I was afraid of this horrible New Jersey, this horrible scary naked tree out the window that looked like it had tentacles.
0:54.8	Also,
0:55.8	Help me, obiwan, can be.
0:57.8	You're my only hope.
0:59.8	We'll listen back to Terry's 2016 interview with Carrie Fisher. It was recorded when she
1:04.8	wrote her memoir The Princess Diarist about making the first Star Wars movie.
1:11.2	That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
1:15.0	This is Fresh Air Weekend.
1:18.0	I'm Sam Brigger.
1:19.0	Today we continue our series on classic films and movie icons. I don't know who you are or
1:25.2	where you came from. From now on you do as I tell you, okay? Look, your
1:31.2	worshipfulness, let's get one thing straight. I take orders from just one person, me.
1:36.0	So one day's still alive.
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