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Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Beach with Emily Yoshida

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

Mother is back, and she’s taking us all to THE BEACH! Emily Yoshida makes her long-awaited return to the pod to speak about her experience in the writer’s room of the still-unproduced TV version of Alex Garland’s titular novel. We’re asking all the big questions - when did Leonardo DiCaprio stop being “baby” and become a big boy on screen? Why is no one practicing ethical non-monogamy or doing heroin on this island? Is it cool to like Moby again after that weird Natalie Portman thing? How would starring in this movie have affected Ewan McGregor’s career? Why stay in a commune with a bunch of dirty European hippies when you could just go to a resort with real bathrooms?

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0:00.0

And me? I still believe in podcasts. But now at least I know it's not some place you

0:27.5

can look for because it's not where you go. It's how you feel for a moment in your life

0:32.2

when you're part of something. And if you find that moment, it lasts forever. Like two

0:38.1

hours, 40 minutes, 320 something in that range.

0:41.2

What was that last thing you said? I made a joke about our podcast being long. That's

0:47.8

what I was trying to do. I wanted to sub in podcasts for paradise that felt clean, but

0:55.1

the line starts with it. Emily was right. You do do a good Leonardo DiCaprio circa 2000.

1:02.7

Yeah. I knew she was right. It's baby Leo trying to sound serious, which I would argue

1:09.9

is his entire career, but we can get to that later.

1:13.5

Well, but when does he shift from baby to big boy? Because I feel like the hit on everyone,

1:20.1

the hit on gangs in New York was that he's still baby. He's trying to be big boy, but he's

1:25.8

still baby. It was at the, you know, the aviator in the departed or those just kind of using

1:31.4

his baby this correctly. David, your question is when does it take? When do people finally accept it?

1:37.9

Is that I think in by inception of shutter island it has taken and he's and he's a bit different.

1:43.1

Yes. I'm going to say I'm in the extreme minority that says he's still baby. Like he's still baby.

1:49.4

He's still baby. Well, I think his best performance has still come from him leaning into baby. I think

1:58.5

departed for me is the first time. I think he's I think he's great in the aviator, but it works

2:05.0

because that role is partially baby. And I think I think departed it. It's used. Right. I think

2:14.6

departed is the time where it kind of starts to cross over because that guy is trying so hard

2:20.2

in the movie to prove that he's not baby. Right. That movie begins with him being summoned into

2:26.1

an office where Walberg and Sheena are like, so you're a baby, right? You're a baby, right? And

2:30.6

he's like, no, I'm not. I hear your fucking baby. You're I'm telling this sheet. Yeah.

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