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Michel Gondry Reunites With Jim Carrey in ‘Kidding’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 522)

The Press Box

The Ringer

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Ringer editor-in-chief Sean Fennessey sits down with with Michel Gondry to discuss his long career in film and reteaming up with Jim Carrey 14 years after ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ to create the upcoming Showtime series ‘Kidding.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's episode of The Big Picture is brought to you by Miller Light.

0:03.0

Summer is almost over, but it's always time for a Miller Light.

0:07.2

Miller Light is the great tasting light beer, with only 96 calories and 3.2 grams of carbs,

0:13.2

that's fewer calories and half the carbs of Bud Light, so there's really nothing more to talk about.

0:18.1

If you have a real argument, let me hear it. Until then, stick with Miller Light.

0:22.2

Miller Light, hold true.

0:24.5

Personally, I don't necessarily understand the jokes.

0:30.5

I think that's it. Yesterday, at the premiere, I was wondering what people were laughing sometimes.

0:36.9

I think it's more important to have something believable than to get people to laugh.

0:50.3

I'm Sean Fantasy, editor-in-chief of The Ringer, and this is The Big Picture,

0:53.7

a conversation show with some of the most interesting filmmakers in the world.

0:57.4

Some directors can see magic, no matter the format, the platform, or the story.

1:02.2

Michelle Gondry sees magic in a concert documentary with Dave Chappelle,

1:05.5

a sci-fi love story, or the public intellectual Noam Chomsky.

1:09.4

As a filmmaker, the Frenchman has made such beloved and uniquely Gondry and works,

1:13.6

as BeKine rewind and Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind.

1:17.4

Now he's making a move to television, and reuniting with his Eternal Sunshine star Jim

1:21.3

Kerry on the new Showtime series, Kidding.

1:24.4

Gondry is one of the great visual creators of his generation, and I spoke with him about working

1:28.1

in a new medium, the stakes of his career now, and where he still needs to go.

1:32.6

Here's Michelle Gondry.

1:45.0

I'm just overjoyed to be joined by Michelle Gondry.

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