Nancy Meyers

Talking Pictures

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Our first guest on Talking Pictures is writer director Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated, The Holiday). Recorded at her home, host Ben Mankiewicz talks with Meyers about casting Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, getting script advice from Sunset Boulevard director Billy Wilder, and they discuss what it’s like to become famous for her interiors. Spoiler: it’s frustrating! Nancy Meyers also answers our Super 8 questionnaire and reveals which film had her running from the theater in absolute terror. FILMS MENTIONED: Something’s Gotta Give It’s Complicated The Holiday Sunset Boulevard His Girl Friday Harry and Walter Go To New York Terms of Endearment About Schmidt Reds The Magnificent Seven The Good, the Bad and the Ugly* The Misfits The Graduate It’s a Wonderful Life North by Northwest Private Benjamin Baby Boom Double Indemnity Stalag 17 Ace in the Hole Some Like it Hot* Sabrina The Apartment Lost Weekend The Philadelphia Story Bringing Up Baby Trouble in Paradise The Intern* The Exorcist* Love in the Afternoon* Rear Window Day For Night A Man and a Woman Paddington 2 The Worst Person in the World Modern Times* Planes, Trains and Automobiles The Great Escape *Available on Max as of 1/16 (Availability of titles subject to change) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ben Mankowitz.
0:01.4	Hi, I'm Ben Mancoitz.
0:02.3	Welcome to TCS.
0:03.3	Hi, I'm Ben Mancovic.
0:04.3	Thanks for staying up late with us on Turner Classic Movies.
0:06.9	I've been a host on Turner Classic Movies for 20 years now.
0:10.5	And I have to tell you, it's still thrilling to talk to people about movies,
0:15.8	to hear what they like and what they don't like,
0:18.5	to find out what was going on in their lives when a particular film
0:22.0	became important to them. So I thought, why not have more of those conversations?
0:27.6	Why not have a podcast? Everyone else has one. Why can't I? Why not sit down one on one
0:35.7	with the most creative people in Hollywood and ask them about their lives?
0:39.6	Ask them about the movies that matter to them.
0:42.2	So I did.
0:43.7	Put away the suit and the pocket square and the TV makeup.
0:48.1	Put on my boots.
0:49.2	TCM fans know the boots I'm talking about.
0:52.0	Got my hair right.
0:53.3	I'm kidding.
0:54.0	My hair is always right.
0:55.9	Listeners will come to understand my hair.
0:58.6	It's kind of a big deal.
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