For Natasha Rothwell improv is like prayer
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
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4.6 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message come from the Walton Family Foundation, |
| 0:05.1 | working to create access to opportunity for people and communities by tackling tough social and environmental problems. |
| 0:11.9 | More information is at waltonfamilyfoundation.org. |
| 0:15.9 | Hey everyone, just a heads up. This episode contains a little bit of colorful language. |
| 0:21.3 | Is there anything in your life that feels like praying? |
| 0:24.9 | Um, it comes to the art for me and improv, you tap into something that's bigger than you when |
| 0:34.7 | you're improvising and you're in that pocket. |
| 0:38.3 | I don't know. |
| 0:44.0 | It's cringe to say it because it's just like, ooh, you know, how does an eloquent dick joke equal praying? But sometimes. |
| 0:46.2 | Sometimes, girl. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wildcard. |
| 0:50.6 | The game where cards control the conversation. |
| 0:54.4 | Each week, my guest answers questions about their life. Questions pulled from a deck of cards. |
| 1:00.3 | They're allowed to skip one question and to flip one question back on me. |
| 1:04.9 | My guest this week is Natasha Rothwell. We would do takes and I wouldn't even remember having done those things because I was so in it in the moment, in the character, and I was able to channel the creative in that moment and commune with something bigger. |
| 1:22.7 | Anyone who has watched season one of The White Lotus knows that Natasha Rothwell's character, Belinda, |
| 1:28.5 | is the heart and moral center of the show. She's a massage therapist at a fancy resort who |
| 1:33.7 | puts up with a lot of very privileged people. It's shaping up to be the same in season three as |
| 1:38.9 | Belinda returns to the show. This time, she gets to enjoy the luxuries of resort life herself |
| 1:43.8 | in Thailand, where this season is set. And this time, she gets to enjoy the luxuries of resort life herself in Thailand, where this |
| 1:45.1 | season is set. And this time, Belinda is at sort of a crossroads in her life, putting herself |
| 1:50.9 | first for a change, her dreams, prioritizing the life she wants. It's hard not to draw a parallel |
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