Welcome to Unspoiled's Real Confessions, the show where we dim the lights and ask our guests to bear their cinematic souls.

We're talking about the movies they love, the ones they hate, the films they're embarrassed to admit they own, and the reasons you might not want to sit next to them in a dark theater.

Today, stepping into the confessional, we've got Lauren Lapkis.

Lauren, how are you?

I'm so good.

I'm so excited.

I, you know, I'm such a fan of everything that you do. Besides being a

fantastically funny actress, a comedian, you also, I think, come to movies when you and Nicole

did your series, and you went through a bunch of different genres, the way that you both

approached them was one of my favorite things because, you know, whether

it was Lord of the Rings or Fast and the Furious, like you came in, with, I think, observations that

I would, that don't normally hear on movie podcasts that made me laugh so hard. Thank you so much. Yeah,

it was really fun. That podcast, newcomers that we did, like, we had, you know, we were watching movies that we never thought we would watch. Yeah. So, like, I thought I was going to avoid Star Wars my entire life. But, and I think Nicole did too. We just didn't think about it. And then, you know, getting to sit down with her and watch it was so great because it's like, it's the perfect context to get to talk about it, where you just, you can

explore all the things that people don't talk about, which is like how sexy some of the alien

characters are.

I mean, finally, right?

I do think that there is something about seeing a classic film with some distance.

Like, my wife, June, just watched the godfather for the first time and was texting me. I saw for the first time a few years ago, yeah. And it was like, and it was so funny because she was addressing it like, well, this is all in the conversation. Like, you were at dinner and she's like, no, let me ask you a question. Now, why does Michael, when he's in system,ima, like, what are you talking about? Yeah, like, we're like questioning things that everyone's, like,

just taken for granted for like 50 million years. Yeah. Books have been written on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so true. No, but it's astonishing, like, how much there is left to learn. Like, I watch movies all day, every day, and it wasn't until I went on newcomers that I realized that Aviator was not

about Amelia Earhart. I just never bothered to watch it. I always thought it was all day, every day, and it wasn't until I went on newcomers that I realized the Aviator was not about

Amelia Earhart. I just never bothered to watch it. I always thought it was Amelia Earhart movie.

That movie was mind-blowing to me, because I didn't know anything. I don't even think I had that in my head.

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