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🗓️ 25 March 2025
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Like most of America, Hollywood has a…weird relationship with the rest of the world. The land of The Oscars, Westerns, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck is afraid of subtitles and loves to remake an international hit in English. Say bonjour to the NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING episode all about foreign films!
Guests: Writer Zach Baylin (“King Richard,” “The Order”); actress and writer Stephanie Koenig (“English Teacher”); and actress and comedian Alyssa Limperis (“What We Do in the Shadows,” “Dexter: Original Sin”).
NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING is a production of The Black List and LAist Studios, in partnership with The Ankler. This episode is presented by FX.
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0:00.0 | Support for L.A.S. comes from Sony Pictures Classics, presenting The Penguin Lessons, a new comedy starring Steve Coogan, as a teacher whose life is upended after he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach. |
0:11.4 | Starts Friday only in theaters. |
0:15.1 | Support comes from Blue Harbor Entertainment's Audrey's Children, the untold true story of Dr. Audrey Evans, whose fight for change |
0:22.1 | redefined medicine and impacted the lives of millions, starring Natalie Dormer as Evans, who was |
0:27.4 | also the co-founder of Ronald McDonald House Charities, only in theaters March 28th. |
0:34.5 | Like most of America, Hollywood has a, I could say, weird relationship with the rest of the world. |
0:43.2 | On one hand, the American entertainment industry holds itself out as the beating heart of cinema. |
0:49.8 | We tell ourselves that there is nowhere else in the world that could produce geniuses like |
0:54.2 | Spielberg and Scorsese and Tarantino and maybe one day a woman or a black person. |
1:00.6 | We're the land of the Oscars, Star Wars, Westerns, and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and we're |
1:06.0 | proud of this industry we built from the ground up by our damn selves. But on the other hand, we would give it all up for a box office hit in China. |
1:15.5 | Welcome to Nobody Knows Anything, one of LA's top 10 trivia slash interview slash game |
1:20.9 | shows about Hollywood. |
1:22.4 | This episode is presented by FX. |
1:24.8 | I'm your host, Franklin Leonard, CEO and founder of the Blacklist, and |
1:29.5 | like a college student back from studying abroad in Lyon, I'm ready to force French into any |
1:35.3 | otherwise normal conversation. If you're listening at home, break out that cafe au lait and croissant. |
1:42.9 | I love that my writing team has given me a bunch of words that I can't pronounce well. |
1:46.6 | It's going to be embarrassing for me because we're about to talk foreign films. |
1:51.4 | And if any listeners out there have reservations about films with subtitles, |
1:55.9 | just hear out director Bong Joon Ho. |
1:58.9 | Here he is at the 2020 Oscars. barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films. |
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