Interview With "The Humans" Star, Richard Jenkins

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

"The Humans" had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and is now playing in limited release and streaming on Showtime. The film is an adaptation of the stage show of the same name by Tony Award winner Stephen Karam, who is making his feature-length directing debut here. The film utilizes an ensemble of incredible actors and leading them is Academy Award-nominee Richard Jenkins in one of his best performances to date as the patriarch of a family who has gathered in a broken down New York City apartment for Thanksgiving, each of them harboring secrets and challenges which make their way to the surface over the course of a single evening. Richard was kind enough to spend some time discussing his familiarity with the original show, working with the other actors and Karam, and a few thoughts on his upcoming role in "Nightmare Alley." Be sure to take a listen down below and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview with the star from the humans, Richard Jenkins.
0:09.2	Keep seeing these ads for that zombie show on TV. It's awful. I can believe people want to watch that kind of stuff at night.
0:17.0	There's enough going on in the real world to give me the creeps.
0:20.1	Great. Thank you.
0:21.6	To the Blake family Thanksgiving.
0:24.6	To the very special Chinatown addition of the Blake family thanks to here.
0:29.6	Dad, you won't get any reception up here.
0:31.6	We have to lean up against the window.
0:34.6	Yeah, but now lean in. smush your body up a...
0:40.0	There you go.
0:42.8	So are you balancing a job with all your studies?
0:45.7	The main reason I'm not done with school yet is because I was depressed for a bit.
0:50.2	I'm fine now.
0:51.2	In our family, we don't have that kind of depression.
0:53.7	Dad.
0:55.0	Oh. Whoa. Come back to Earth.
0:57.0	Sorry. No, we just have a lot of stoic sadness.
1:04.0	Can you hire someone to...
1:06.0	Cost $100 a night to hire someone to make sure she doesn't fall and get her.
1:10.0	No, she needs to think before she opens her mouth.
1:12.6	Don't you think it should cost less to be alive?
1:15.6	Absolutely.
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