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This is talk easy. I'm Sam Fricoso. Welcome to the show. Hey. Hey everyone. Thank you for stopping by on a Wednesday. We usually air new

episodes every Sunday morning if you're new here. But lately we've been blessed with a

bounty of wonderful guests so today's midweek talk is with Jenna Malone.

She's an actor, musician, writer, dancer, mother.

She has many titles and yet none that sufficiently describe who she is.

Her latest performance comes an antebellum,

which you may have heard about in a recent episode we did with Janelle Monet.

The film is about a renowned author who's thrust into a new unnerving reality, in which Monet's character is forced to work as a slave on the

eve of the Civil War.

Jenna, in her role, is part of that new unnerving reality in this terrifying horror film.

If you'd like to learn more about Antebellum and where you can watch it, visit our site at

W. W. Talk EasyPOD.com.

As for Jenna, she's been acting on screen since the age of 12. She was a child in films like Contact and For the Love of the

game. And then she grew up as a teenager and into a young woman in films like Donnie Darko, the dangerous lives of

altar boys, the United States of Leland, saved, the ballad of Jack and Rose, pride and prejudiced, into the wild, the list goes on.

You have most recently seen her in The Hunger Game movies, Neon Demon, In Our Nature, and Inherent Vice.

As you can tell by that short list of titles,

Jenna is really capable of all forms of embodiment work.

That's what she calls acting, which I kind of like.

But in this conversation, we try to unpack what's actually required of someone committed to betraying life on screen.

We try to understand this moment in all its pain and precarity. We try to understand her past and how it may shape her future.

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