Jason Segel Still Gets Starstruck at the Oscars
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Our special guest Jason Segel, who plays David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour, tells us what was scary about taking on the role, what it was like to attend the Oscars with The Muppets, and how the help of friends like Paul Rudd has raised the profile of this tiny— but Oscar-buzzy— indie film. Plus, we go over the highs and lows of Steve Jobs, talk about your answers to our question about which overlooked talents deserve awards attention this year, and make our bold, probably foolish picks for who will win Best Actress. This episode is sponsored by Audible.com. Get a free audiobook of your choice at www.audible.com/GOLD
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of Vanity Affairs Little Gold Men is sponsored by audible.com. |
| 0:03.8 | Audible.com has more than 180,000 audio books and spoken word products. |
| 0:08.1 | Get a free audiobook of your choice at audible.com. . . . |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, an award season podcast from Vanity Fair |
| 0:22.3 | and Canoply. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm Katie Rich, the Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair.com, |
| 0:26.5 | and I'm here in the room with Vanity Fair's film critic Richard Lawson. |
| 0:29.3 | Hi Richard. |
| 0:29.8 | Hello. |
| 0:30.3 | And then coming in on the phone from far-flung San Francisco, it's Vanity Fair's digital director, Mike Hogan. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi, Katie and Richard. Hi. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello. San Francisco traditional home of all Oscar Buzz. |
| 0:41.0 | Very, very application. |
| 0:42.0 | Somewhere in the future it will be. your buzz very very application. |
| 0:43.0 | Somewhere in the future it will be. |
| 0:45.0 | This week we're in the thick of the New York Film Festival so we'll talk about what was |
| 0:49.1 | probably the festival's highest profile debut Steve Jobs Jobs, starring Michael Fastbender. |
| 0:54.0 | And from there we ask you guys some questions on Twitter about which overdue actors or |
| 0:58.4 | filmmakers or otherwise overlooked people you're hoping to see in the awards race this year. |
| 1:02.8 | And then finally, we have our first ever special guess in episode two. |
| 1:06.3 | How lucky are we? |
| 1:07.5 | Jason Siegel is here to talk about his role as David Foster Wallace in the summer's |
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