You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview,

with Critics' Choice, a Golden Globe nominee for Best Supporting Actress, Amanda Safreed, for Mank.

Mank? It's Orson Wells.

Of course it is.

I think it's time we talk.

Pretty and willing to hunt a great white whale.

Just call me Ahab. Tell the story you know. I hear you're hunting dangerous game. This is different. This is about something. I've put up with your suicidal drinking. You're a compulsive gambling. You're a silly, platonic affairs. I gave you a second chance. A wealth and influence is going to crush a man. Are you hoping I might absolve you of such a personal betrayal? You made yourself, court, Chester.

Nobody, but nobody makes a monkey out of William Randolph Hurst.

You pick a fight with Willie. You are finished.

Mank.

Mr. Mankowitz. Amanda, thank you so much for joining me to talk about Mank.

I know you're doing so many of these interviews, so I really appreciate your time.

Oh, yeah.

No, it's, you know, I was talking to a friend last night, and I have, I've never spoken about a movie at this length for this amount of time.

And it's incredible.

I, you know, there's momentum in it, and I know that I'm going to get a finite amount of time in the grand scheme of things to talk about Marian Davies and to talk about this project.

And so it's not, it's not, there's no trouble talking about it because

I believe in it. And also, this moment's going to go away. And, and I have so many feelings about

this character. And, and so I'll talk about it for as long as I can. Well, let's, let's keep talking

about it then. So when, when, when you first learned that David Fincher was interested in you playing Marion Davies,

how familiar were you with her career or her as a person?

I wasn't familiar at all.

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