Heather Graham
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
Anna Faris
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The incredible actress, writer and director Heather Graham is on this week’s episode of Unqualified! In this episode, Heather talks about the rewarding experience of directing her first film (6:10) and the group gets into a powerful conversation on sexism in the entertainment industry (8:02) before revealing their favorite romantic comedy guilty pleasures (13:50).
Then, Heather plays a round of deal-breakers (16:40) and the gals tell us what qualities they look for in a partner (19:28). After that, Heather and Anna discuss the societal pressures and expectations of being female (32:48) followed by Anna’s recollections of becoming a mother in the Hollywood spotlight (38:05).
Later, they call Mira (46:40), who is getting bullied at work by women who are jealous of her job title, and Justina (1:00:00), who is in a disagreement with her husband over what to name their baby on-the-way. Tune in and enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | G geosh |
| 0:03.0 | sucked |
| 0:25.9 | voice |
| 0:28.7 | in |
| 0:30.6 | yeah |
| 0:31.4 | well it's more rewarding to direct a movie that's more rewarding I think |
| 0:36.7 | just because it was such a long process and it was fun but what what is it |
| 0:41.2 | like to direct other actors it's so fun I kind of just felt like I was an |
| 0:46.7 | audience watching just talented people work and I just wanted to create a |
| 0:50.3 | safe space like a loving safe space yeah but when you want to do like sort of |
| 0:56.0 | guide an actor in a specific way did you feel yeah I guess well being an |
| 1:02.9 | actor I just wanted to be really loving like I feel like whenever I work with a |
| 1:06.4 | director I feel like they're very loving and supportive then I just want to be |
| 1:08.9 | my best self for them so I just felt like I cast people I thought were really |
| 1:13.3 | talented and I just wanted to make them feel really appreciated and just ask |
| 1:17.1 | for what I want and just kind of you know in a certain way if you like just turn |
| 1:20.5 | it over to them because it just becomes their thing and you're just kind of |
| 1:23.5 | observing them be but like the gentle nudging into a certain I don't know |
| 1:31.0 | aligned delivery yeah did you ever have like oh this isn't how I heard it in my |
| 1:35.8 | head moment well I hired some people that were funny and they would improv |
| 1:40.7 | stuff so sometimes I would just kind of let them go with their thing I mean |
| 1:43.8 | occasionally somebody would go off on a tangent I'd be like that's not right |
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