Greta Gerwig & Pixar's Lee Unkrich

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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First up this week, the one and only Greta Gerwig! You probably know her as an actor - she starred in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha and a bunch of other indies. She's also been in Oscar contenders like Jackie and 20th Century Women. Now, she's written and directed a film of her own: Lady Bird. And no exaggeration - it's one of our favorite movies from this year. Then, Lee Unkrich. For over 20 years now, he's been one of the leading creative voices at Pixar. He worked on Toy Story, Finding Nemo, A Bug's Life, a bunch more. He directed Toy Story 3, probably the darkest and most affecting of the movies in that series. Now, he's directed Coco, the newest Disney / Pixar movie. Set in Mexico, Coco is a story wrapped up in the Mexican day of the dead - dia de muertos. He'll talk with Jesse about the making of Coco and lots more, especially his time working on Silk Stalkings, the classic 1993 erotic police procedural on USA.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's GuyRaz here host of How I Built This with a quick recommendation every holiday
0:05.5	weekend come to a lot of waiting traffic, airport security lines.
0:09.8	And so while you're waiting, why did you just binge on How I Built This each episode,
0:14.1	I speak with a founder of a company who has an incredible story of how it all began.
0:18.5	You can find how I built this on the NPR1 app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:26.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:33.0	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:38.1	Greta Gerwig, the actress, just wrote and directed her first future-length film.
0:42.4	It's called Lady Bird.
0:43.4	It's a wonderful movie.
0:44.4	We're going to talk about it a bunch in just a minute, but this is really, really important.
0:49.9	So if you grew up in California, you probably know this already.
0:54.9	In fourth grade here, you learn about state history, the Gold Rush, Hunipero Sarah, the Tumash people.
1:03.5	Well, my producer, Kevin, learned about the Tumash.
1:05.9	I learned about the MiWox.
1:07.7	It's kind of a right of passage.
1:09.3	There's always some big project in the middle of it.
1:12.7	A lot of people make models of missions.
1:15.4	Some people get a trip on a boat.
1:17.9	Greta grew up in Sacramento, which is the capital of California.
1:21.2	And Sacramento Elementary Schools do not mess around.
1:26.7	And then everybody got in covered wagons.
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