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Slate's Spoiler Specials

Little

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Film Reviews,, Tv & Film

3.6724 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week on Spoiler Specials, Marissa Martinelli, Inkoo Kang and Heather Schwedel review Little. They talk the logistics of body switching movies, the zany fashion choices and Marsai Martin’s star power. 

Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Engineered by Merritt Jacob. 


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0:00.0

You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music.

0:03.6

I want to tell you my secret now.

0:06.4

I see dead people.

0:09.5

Silent green is evil.

0:14.0

I need my sister and my daughter.

0:19.0

Rosberg.

0:25.8

What's in the box? Hello, and welcome to another Slate spoiler special.

0:29.7

I'm Marissa Martinelli and assistant editor here at Slate and I'm joined in the New York studio today by staff writer Heather Schwaddell. Hi Heather. Hi, Marissa. And joining us by Skype

0:35.4

from California is culture writer Ingu King.

0:37.7

Hello, Ingu.

0:38.9

Hello, hello.

0:40.1

This week we're spoiling Little, starring Regina Hall as Jordan Saunders, the unforgiving,

0:45.3

unrelenting head of a tech startup who wakes up one day as the teenage self she spent years trying to forget.

0:51.1

Marseille Martin plays young Jordan as she and her long-suffering assistant

0:54.6

April, played by Issa Ray, try to figure out how to make her big again while also saving

0:59.3

their company from losing their biggest client. Body switching movie. How do we feel about

1:05.4

body switching movies? I generally like them. I think it's a weird scenario that it's so popular for movies because obviously it doesn't happen in real life, but it's great. I love big. I love like a revisiting tweenhood, 13 going on 30. And I thought that this, when I heard the concept

1:31.1

for this, I was excited about it. It's a great spin on the topic. Even the title, Little is

1:36.9

definitely a nod to the fact that this is a reversal of big. But it's interesting that this is the

1:41.9

less common scenario where you have a child actor playing a grownup stuck in a child's body as opposed to the reverse.

1:48.8

I tend to think of the appeal of movies like this as seeing, you know, Tom Hanks or Jennifer Garner or even more recently in the case of Shazam, Zachary Levi, playing, you know, a kid in an adult body.

2:02.8

Ah, but you forget 17 again, starring Mac Efron.

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