In Fabric's Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In Fabric's Marianne Jean-Baptiste joins us to talk about her role in Peter Strickland's bizarre thriller. Marianne is an acting veteran. She's starred in varied works, from acclaimed dramas like Secrets & Lies, to long-running FBI shows like Without a Trace. Marianne chats with us about the difference between feature and series acting, and how her role in In Fabric reconnected her with her passion for the process. Plus, she'll tell us about the time she read a newspaper for 45-minutes as part of an audition.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.2	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:21.4	Marianne Jean-Baptiste is a classically trained actor who has over 50 credits in what
0:26.6	has to be one of the most varied resumes in all of acting.
0:30.4	Her breakthrough part was in Secrets and Lives, the acclaimed British drama from the 1990s
0:35.5	directed by Mike Lee.
0:37.1	The role earned her a best supporting actress nomination, the Academy Awards.
0:41.4	In 2002 she got a lead part on the American TV show without a trace.
0:46.1	She played an FBI agent named Vivian Johnson for seven years.
0:50.7	You might also have seen her recently in Homecoming.
0:54.2	Her latest film is a departure from all of that, though, it's called In Fabric.
0:59.7	It's a movie that, I mean, well, look, there isn't a more elegant way to say this.
1:06.5	It's a movie about a haunted dress.
1:09.3	It is a bizarre psychedelic movie about a haunted dress.
1:15.7	A beautiful, striking red dress that literally burns itself into the person who wears it.
1:23.4	It's a dress that's worshiped by occultists.
1:26.9	And in In Fabric, Marianne Jean-Baptiste's character is the first person unlucky enough
1:32.6	to buy it.
1:34.0	In the scene you're about to hear Sheila Woodchapel, her character, has just tried it on for the
1:37.8	first time in a strange, almost church-like department store.
1:44.8	It's a little small.
1:49.7	What size is this?
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