Interviews: Olivia Colman and Sam Mendes (Empire of Light) and Todd Field (Tár)
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
First, Katey Rich talks to the star and director of Empire of Light, inspired by the loneliness of early pandemic lockdowns and Mendes’s own mother. Then Rebecca Ford talks to the writer and director of Tár, who is happy about any fan theories about his movie— but won’t reveal how Lydia Tár got her EGOT.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award 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. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm the King of the World. |
| 0:22.0 | There's a mistake. |
| 0:23.0 | Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Katie Rich. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm here for today's interview episode with Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi, Katie. |
| 0:41.0 | Rebecca, you and I did the interviews for this week's episode. |
| 0:44.0 | And first, we'll hear my conversation with Sam Mendez and Olivia Coleman, the director and writer, |
| 0:50.0 | and then also the star of Empire of Light. |
| 0:52.0 | A movie we talked about last week as maybe getting targeted by critics for a sentimentality. |
| 0:57.0 | But I think that we both agree is just this like pretty emotional experience. |
| 1:01.0 | It's very closely based on Sam Mendez's mother, which he talked about in this interview. |
| 1:05.0 | And it's got yet another in a string of Olivia Coleman performances, |
| 1:09.0 | where you just cannot take your eyes off of her. |
| 1:11.0 | And her character is so multifaceted kind of going through these periods of, you know, extreme quiet. |
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