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Hello Media Consumers, welcome to Press Box Friday, Brian Curtis of The Ringer,

here along with producer Erica Servantes. We've got a surprise today. You'll remember that last

month we did an episode about Wes Anderson's movie, The French Dispatch, with Sean Finnecy.

We've been trying to get one of the actors from that movie onto our little media podcast

and the actor agreed. So today we've got Jeffrey Wright. In The French Dispatch,

Wright plays a magazine writer who has been described by Wes Anderson as a combination of two

people. One is the Fire Next Time author James Baldwin, and the other is New Yorker Funnyman

AJ Liebling. Not the kind of journalistic crossover event I ever imagined when I was reading Old

New Yorker collections. In the movie, Robocride has a typographic memory, which means he can recall

his old pieces line by line whenever he's asked to. It's a very funny joke in The French Dispatch,

but you should also note, this applies to every journalist in real life as well. Jeffrey Wright and

I talked about him channeling James Baldwin. We talked about what it's like to act for Wes Anderson.

We also discussed being very online and the time he played Colin Powell under the direction of

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