Hello, movie friends. I'm Lily Percy and I'll be your guide this week as I talk with Bright Wall Dark Rooms Lauren Wilford about the movie that changed her life, Kill Bill 2.

It's okay if you haven't seen it. We're going to give you all of the details you need to follow along.

But before we get started, a special shout out to our New York City friends.

We're going to be recording a live episode of this movie Changed Me as part of the Work

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We're partnering with New Fest's LGBT Film Festival, and our live recording will be happening

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Whenever I have to face a really big problem in my life, I always go back to the coffin scene in Kilbiltu.

And I think about Uma Thurman as the bride, trying to break through this piece of wood above her in the most painful and terrifying situation, being buried alive underground. And I just picture her hitting it

over and over and over and over again. And it automatically makes me feel like I can take on the

world. I can do anything. Which is why it's so hard to now have Kill Bill 2 also associated with

the reality of what making that movie was like for

Umah Thurman. In the past couple of years since the Me Too movement began, we now know what

she went through, the abuse, both physical and verbal, that she experienced while filming the movie.

And it's really hard not to see this film now in that context.

But the movie still has so much to teach us and so much to glorify about the strength and power of women.

And I'm going to choose to focus on that instead.

Yeah. When I'm talking about Kill Bill 2, I should say that I'm also talking about Kill Bill, Volume 1.

These two movies are tied both in my head and as a series.

We start off in the first film Meeting the Bride and going on this journey with her of revenge. And the most horrible things that can possibly happen to any

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