Stephanie Beatriz & Griffin Dunne

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

For five seasons, Stephanie Beatriz has starred on the hit fox show Brooklyn Nine Nine. She plays Detective Rosa Diaz, easily the toughest cop in the precinct - she's brave, she's serious, she rides a motorcycle. Now, she stars in a new film - a drama called The Light of the Moon. It's a nuanced, touching and realistic look at the trauma left in the wake of a brutal sexual assault. After that: Griffin Dunne! He's an actor. You might've seen him on the new Amazon series I Love Dick, or as the lead in the Scorsese classic After Hours. He's also a director, and his latest film focuses on the writer Joan Didion, who happens to be his aunt. He talks with Jesse about the decision to make the film, her legacy in the world of journalism and how he mustered up the courage to ask her some pretty tough questions.

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0:29.9	R.
0:35.2	I'm Jesse Thorn. It's pretty much always hard to talk about death and loss.
0:41.2	I mean, I'm a professional interviewer. It comes up plenty there, and it never gets any easier.
0:46.5	Griffin Dunn knows about that, too. He's an actor and a director. He just made a documentary
0:51.6	about his aunt, writer Joan Didian. In the early 2000s, Didian lost both her husband and her daughter.
0:59.3	Pretty close together, too. Griffin was related to everybody involved. The dead were also his uncle
1:06.4	and his cousin. Still, he was making a documentary, so he had to ask about it.
1:13.4	She's a journalist and is being interviewed, and she knows, of course, I'm going to ask that,
1:18.7	and probably would not have any respect for me if I didn't go there. While it was very tough,
1:25.0	there'd be also moments in the silences where she'd look up and go, keep going, bring it on.
1:32.4	I know where you're going. It's Bullseye.
1:42.8	Coming up, Griffin Dunn talks about his new documentary, Joan Didian. The center will not hold.
1:49.2	It's the first ever about Didian. Dunn has also starred in movies like After Hours,
1:54.6	an American Werewolf in London and Dallas Buyers Club. One of his teachers was the legendary
2:00.4	Udahhakan, and Trussman, who did not want to disappoint Udahhakan. And the most cutting thing I ever
2:07.3	saw happen was two actors in a scene that clearly wasn't going very well. She just didn't even take
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