Interview: Sigourney Weaver (Call Jane) and Sheila McCarthy (Women Talking)
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4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Interview: Sigourney Weaver (Call Jane) and Sheila McCarthy (Women Talking)
Even decades into her thrilling career, Sigourney Weaver has an especially exciting fall, with the pre-Roe v. Wade abortion drama Call Jane coming to theaters now, and Avatar: The Way of Water on the horizon. She talks to David Canfield about all of it. Then Katey Rich catches up with Sheila McCarthy, the veteran Canadian actress who shines in the exceptional ensemble of Women Talking, shouldering some of the film's funniest moments as well as the most heartbreaking.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the awards season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:05.0 | It's such an honor to present this next award. |
| 0:08.0 | And here are the nominees. |
| 0:10.0 | The Oscar goes to. |
| 0:12.0 | And the Oscar goes to. |
| 0:14.0 | And I can't deny the fact that you like me right now. |
| 0:18.0 | You like me. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm the King of the World. |
| 0:21.0 | There's a mistake. |
| 0:23.0 | Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Katie Rich and I'm here by myself. |
| 0:38.0 | So I'm going to keep it kind of quick today because we have two great interviews to share. |
| 0:43.0 | First, you're going to hear from David Canfield who talked to Sigourney Weaver. |
| 0:47.0 | She's had obviously a long and extremely successful career, but she's got an especially good fall happening right now. |
| 0:53.0 | She's in the film called Jane about the underground abortion network in the 60s. |
| 0:58.0 | She's in Paul Schrader's Master Gardener, which permuted the Venice Film Festival earlier this year. |
| 1:02.0 | And then coming up later this year, she's in Avatar, the way of water. |
| 1:06.0 | She was obviously, of course, in the original Avatar. |
| 1:08.0 | She's back as a different character this time and had some talk about what a kinder James Cameron looks like making that movie. |
| 1:14.0 | So a really big fall for an actress that we love. |
| 1:17.0 | So let's hear David's conversation with Sigourney Weaver. |
| 1:20.0 | Sigourney Weaver, thank you so much for joining us today. |
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