Melanie Lynskey is Done Apologizing
Next Question with Katie Couric
Katie Couric Media
4.4 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Melanie Lynskey is known as “the nicest person in Hollywood.” But today, she’s taking the gloves off. The star of the Showtime smash “Yellowjackets”, Melanie channels her dark side by playing complicated, uncompromising characters. In this episode, she reveals to Katie the decades of pain she experienced as she failed to attain Hollywood’s standards of beauty. It wasn’t until she decided not to play that game that she actually got what she wanted: success on her terms. And she’s not sorry for it.
This episode contains references to disordered eating that may be triggering to people with or in recovery from eating disorders.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard. |
| 0:07.0 | I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister. |
| 0:11.0 | In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island. |
| 0:16.0 | A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger. |
| 0:23.0 | Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | It was a Hollywood movie come true and I was the star. |
| 0:35.0 | That's Damon Launer. In 2013 he founded what became known as the most elite sex club in the world. |
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| 0:48.0 | and how it ultimately turned Damon's life upside down. |
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| 0:59.0 | I'm Amber Reffen and I'm her gorgeous sister, Lacey Lamar. |
| 1:03.0 | If in fact Lacey is not that gorgeous. |
| 1:06.0 | Okay everybody we have exciting news to share. |
| 1:08.0 | We're teaming up with Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network to bring you our brand new podcast |
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| 1:15.0 | We did it. We sold a bunch of books, we conquered late night and now we'll play fun quizzes and games with friends |
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| 1:35.0 | I'm Katie Curric and this is next question. |
| 1:39.0 | We've been through a lot over the past few years and with all the bad stuff happening |
| 1:44.0 | it can be hard to figure out how to bounce back, regroup and live better. |
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