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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Sarah Polley

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

News, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Actress, writer and director Sarah Polley joins Stephen to share some details about her latest film, “Women Talking,” and the personal journey she writes about in her latest book, “Run Toward The Danger.” The book is available now and the film, “Women Talking,” is in select theaters now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0

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0:24.0

From the host house, the Alan Partridge podcast series three.

0:27.0

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0:31.0

It's the Rachel Pacho with Stephen Colberg.

0:40.0

Welcome back, everybody. My next guest is an actor, a writer and director of the movies away from her and take this waltz.

0:48.0

Her latest film is Women Talking. Please welcome to the late show, Sarah Polly.

0:57.0

So nice to meet you. So nice to meet you.

1:00.0

Now, Tuesday night, you have, besides being a director with a new film, you also have a memoir called Run Toward the Danger,

1:08.0

which I want to get into in just a moment here, but you had an event at the Strand Bookstore here in New York on Tuesday night with the great Francis McDormand, the two of you are together.

1:18.0

She interviewed you. You've moderated this evening.

1:21.0

I don't think I've, I've never had a chance to interview her, spend time with her.

1:25.0

What, was she like, she asked tough questions?

1:29.0

She, I mean, she's, yeah, there's not like a lot of niceties. She gets to the point.

1:33.0

Yeah. I mean, it's, it's pretty direct, but the thing that she did last night that was so amazing is she read from the book.

1:40.0

And I had this amazing experience of hearing my innermost thoughts read by Francis McDormand, which I actually think is experience we should all have.

1:47.0

You start to believe yourself. I'm like playing you to you.

1:50.0

Yeah, but it was Francis McDormand too, so now I hear my voice is very confident.

1:56.0

I wouldn't mind picturing myself as Francis McDormand.

1:59.0

It's really therapeutic.

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