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Still Watching: Under the Banner of Heaven with Daisy Edgar-Jones

Still Watching

Vanity Fair

Arts

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Richard and Katey are back to discuss Hulu's new series Under The Banner of Heaven, based on the 2003 Jon Krakauer true crime book covering a murder and some history of the Mormon religion. It is being adapted into a series by Dustin Lance Black featuring performances from Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, and Wyatt Russell. Katey interviews Daisy Edgar-Jones, who plays Brenda on the series, about what it was like to learn about the Mormon community and portray a real person. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi there, it's Molly Jongfast, Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair.

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0:34.5

Hello and welcome to Still Watching.

1:00.0

Under the banner of Heaven Edition, I'm Vanity Fair Chief Critic Richard Lawson and I'm

1:04.3

here today with VF Awards Editor Katie Rich, Hello Katie.

1:08.3

Hello Richard.

1:09.3

Here we are again to talk about television.

1:11.3

Did you know that there's a lot of television to talk about?

1:13.6

There is so much television that I honestly, I need to actually come up with a really

1:20.1

comprehensive management strategy.

1:22.9

It's not enough to just pick and choose at Willie Nelly, it has become very demanding.

1:28.5

Yeah, especially because a lot of it is our long dramas based on extensive real-life history.

1:34.2

Such as the show we're here to talk about today.

1:36.1

So yeah, the show we're talking about today is Under the Band of Heaven, which is an

1:39.4

FX show that is exclusively on Hulu.

1:42.8

It's based on John Krakauer's 2003 Tome of Nonfiction novel.

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