Malin Akerman: 3/8/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Malin Akerman is an actress best known for her roles in The Heartbreak Kid, Couples Retreat, and Showtime’s latest series, Billions. Today, Malin discusses how a tumultuous relationship with her mother shaped her career and personality (6:00), when she noticed she wanted to be an actor (11:00), and how becoming a parent moved her away from comedy and towards drama (23:00). Plus, Malin talks about how she prepares to go toe-to-toe with Maggie Siff in a scene (32:00) and the effect of being an outsider on playing American characters (36:00). Topics mentioned: Billions Landmark Forum The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Rock of Ages Trophy Wife The Ticket Tribeca Film Festival The Heartbreak Kid People mentioned: Malin Akerman David Levien Neil Burger Melissa Errico Paul Giamatti Oren Moverman Maggie Siff The Moment is brought to you by A&E’s hit series Bates Motel. Catch the new season when it returns Monday March 7th at 9 p.m. Eastern Time on A&E. Email: themomentbk@gmail.com Twitter: @BrianKoppelman iTunes: itunes.com/themoment To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's show is brought to you by A&E's hit series Bates Motel.
0:03.6	Catch the new season when it returns Monday, March 7th at 9 p.m. Eastern on A&E.
0:09.3	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:13.0	Hey, this is the moment I'm Brian Koppeman.
0:20.0	Thanks for listening.
0:22.0	We, uh, this is the moment I'm Brian Koppman. Thanks for listening. We, this is a very special episode of the moment
0:26.1	because our guest today is the great genius Malin Ackerman.
0:30.0	Genius, wow.
0:31.0	Well, you're one of my, I mean, you're my show, what are I going to say? The slouch,
0:34.6	Moniron. You better not. And co-hosting today is my billion show running partner and
0:40.5	lifelong best friend, David Levine. Dave.
0:43.2	Thank you for having me.
0:44.2	This is exciting.
0:45.2	Well, Mollin, because Mollin's out of town now and we missed her terribly so I couldn't
0:49.6	have all the fun of getting this to you.
0:51.7	So I was like, all right, come. I am crashing this party. I love that to see you. I was like all right come I am crashing this party I love that you're
0:54.8	crashing this party we just need some cocktails now we'll be good to go how the
0:57.7	fuck did we not bring cocktails I was getting some drummed up here how are you not
1:01.7	carrying something how you'reillian, how are you not carrying something?
1:03.0	How are you not holding?
1:05.0	How are you not holding? Just airplane bottles or something?
1:07.0	You should be holding.
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