Laurie Metcalf, Kristen Anderson Lopez & Robert Lopez

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

It's an Academy Awards spectacular! First: Jesse talks with the amazing Laurie Metcalf. She's up for the best supporting actress Oscar for her role in the great Lady Bird. It's her first ever nomination! Laurie's a sincere actor's actor. She was a founding member of the legendary Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago. On the hit TV sitcom Roseanne, she played Jackie, Roseanne's sister. She's also starring in an upcoming Broadway rendition of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women. Then, two Oscar winners: Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez! Together they wrote the song "Remember Me," from the hit Disney film Coco. Before that, Kristen and Robert wrote the songs for Disney's Frozen - including the Academy Award winning "Let it Go." They talk with Jesse about how they met, how they collaborate and keep a happy marriage and how Robert is one of only 12 people to win an Emmy, a Grammy, and Oscar and a Tony. That's right - we got an EGOT in the house!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:07.0	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:13.6	A lot of the time is great songwriters come in pairs.
0:16.1	Rodgers in heart, Ashford in Simpson, Isaac Hayes in David Porter, and now add to the list
0:21.5	Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez.
0:24.6	The two have written dozens of songs for movies and TV together.
0:28.1	One award after award that includes the music from Frozen.
0:32.8	So if you're a parent, you can thank them for letting it go.
0:36.1	But writing songs for a movie like that isn't easy.
0:38.0	I mean, take it from them.
0:40.0	So much great material gets left on the cutting room floor.
0:42.8	One of the things we had to cut from that was, I hope that I don't vomit in his face.
0:49.2	They were like, you can't save vomit.
0:51.5	You just can't save vomit.
0:52.5	It makes people vomit.
0:53.5	There was a girl in the story room who you could tell every time we mentioned it or talked
0:57.7	about it.
0:58.7	She just got sicker and sicker.
1:00.8	She was turning green at the end of the song.
1:03.8	And so we were like, come on, that's funny.
1:08.3	It's Bullseye.
1:16.6	Coming up a special Academy Awards edition of Bullseye.
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