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Film Reviews,, Tv & Film

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Noah Emmerich (Stan Beeman) joins June Thomas and show runners Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg to talk about the awkwardness of directing a steamy sex scene between co-stars (and real life couple) Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell, plus the story of how he got a David Bowie song onto the show two days before Bowie passed away.

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0:00.0	You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:03.4	The following podcast contains spoilers.
0:06.2	We strongly recommend you watch the episode of The Americans we're discussing before listening to the podcast.
0:11.7	New episodes air Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on FX.
0:16.6	In a weird way, I always feel like, oh, we're in show business, but you should never be showing what you're doing.
0:21.4	You should be doing what you're doing.
0:23.4	You know, if you're showing what you're doing, then there's already a level of falseness that you're trying to avoid.
0:28.2	No one's showing what they're doing in life unless they're a show-off and no one wants to watch a show-off. Hello, and I'm the host of this podcast, which takes you behind the scenes of the show. I've returned once again to, golly gosh, it's raining outside Gowanus, Brooklyn, where the show is made, where I'm joined by our special guests, who is the director of this episode, and also one of the stars of the show, Noah Emmerich, aka Stan Beeman. Hello, Noah.
1:29.5	Hi.
1:30.1	Thank you for joining us.
1:31.2	Good to be here. Also with us is Joe Weisberg, the creator of the show. Hello, Joe. Hi, June. And his co-show runner and co-executive producer, Joel Fields. Hello, Joel. How are you today? I'm jolly good.
1:41.6	I got some questions first.
1:42.6	This was your second episode as a director.
1:46.6	Yeah.
1:47.0	Was it easier second time around? I'm jolly good. I got some questions first. I'm sorry, Mr. Norah Merrick. This was your second
1:44.7	episode as a director. Yeah. Was it easier a second time around? In some ways it was in other ways,
1:52.4	uh, it wasn't actually. You know, it was a very different episode this season than last season
1:58.6	tonally sort of texturally. It felt, and you remind us what, what happened in the year or last season tonally sort of texturally it felt you remind us what
2:01.2	happened in the year last season episode last season episode had quite a bit of actually i don't
2:06.8	really remember what happened last season um it was it was the big uh sort of south african
2:12.8	abduction plot uh yes did you have the neck? No, that was the next episode after mine.
2:19.4	But still.
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