Jane The Virgin’s Yael Grobglas Meets Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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It’s a "dinner and a TV show" kind of night for Nerdette this week. We talk to Jane the Virgin actress Yael Grobglas about what it’s like to play your own twin and creating a villain who people love to hate. Then Iron Chef winner and Chopped judge Alex Guarnaschelli joins us to help dive into Grobglas’ obsession with food.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still |
| 0:06.1 | watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you, |
| 0:12.7 | soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making, |
| 0:18.0 | Stories Without End from WB EZ Chicago. |
| 0:25.7 | Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure. |
| 0:28.3 | Listen wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:37.2 | How you doing, buddy? I got a little stuffiness. I'm sorry, everybody.E.C. Chicago, this is NERD. I'm Trisha Bobita. How you doing, buddy? I got a little stuffiness. I'm sorry, everybody. |
| 0:41.5 | Hang in there. Thanks for coming, friend. I'm here. I'm here. And I am Greta Johnson, and this week, actress |
| 0:47.2 | CIL Grobe Gloss. She plays Petra on the CW show, Jane the Virgin, which, if I might say, is the best show on TV. |
| 0:54.5 | You love this show. |
| 0:55.4 | I love this show, but you love it the most. |
| 0:57.2 | I do love it the most. |
| 0:58.4 | It brings me a lot of joy. |
| 0:59.7 | It's one of those perfect shows that is part of a genre and also making fun of that |
| 1:04.1 | genre at the same time. |
| 1:05.3 | So four seasons in, we have a telenovela, but also something that's a self-deprecating version of a telenovela. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah, it's just really fun and delightful and ridiculous. |
| 1:14.4 | And Petra, I think, embodies all of that, too, this character that EIL plays, |
| 1:17.7 | because she's just like the perfect soap opera villain. |
| 1:21.2 | So I am done with nice. |
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