PTFO - American Fictions: Why Oscar Contender Cord Jefferson (Still) Gives a F*ck

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This fall, Emmy-winning screenwriter Cord Jefferson (Watchmen, Succession, The Good Place, Master of None) has become a major Oscar contender for his directorial debut movie, the forthcoming (and deeply funny) American Fiction. So we wanted to ask Cord the truth about awards, competitiveness, race, external validation, and happiness. Also, the Men In Black soundtrack. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4O3jaJ1TN94 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out I am Pablo Torre and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:05.8	Man, if I look like Sterling K. Brown with my shirt off, I'd be sureless right here.
0:10.0	I'd be sureless on this damn podcast.
0:13.6	Right after this ad.
0:30.4	I'm coming off of having just gone to your screening last night.
0:34.8	Yeah.
0:35.6	And you had this big thing in New York and I've never screened something that I've made for
0:40.4	that many people. You're kind of a veteran at this now. I assume.
0:44.1	Yeah.
0:44.6	But last night where you have a mix of friends and people I think you respect.
0:49.6	Yeah.
0:50.2	And people who are friends who are also professional critics.
0:54.2	Yeah.
0:54.8	What is your stress level as something like that?
0:56.5	That is your premier, your new movie, American fiction as a first time screenwriter, director, simultaneous.
1:01.8	Yeah. It's exceedingly high, exceedingly high.
1:04.5	I'm in this weird, I'm in this weird transitive moment where it's where I've taken this art project
1:15.2	that I've been working on for three years of my life with my close friends.
1:19.3	And we've been putting all of our resources and heart and souls into it.
1:24.0	And I'm now in this period where it's turning from this art project into a commodity
1:32.1	that I need to sell people now.
1:34.4	That is a very, and it has nothing to do with integrity or anything like I understand that
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