'The Big Picture' — Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ (Ep. 342)

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Ringer editor-in-chief Sean Fennessey chats with Alison Herman about Janicza Bravo’s approach to uncomfortable comedy and her direction of “Juneteenth,” the instant-classic episode of ‘Atlanta’ (1:00). Then Sean sits down with Bravo and her husband/producing partner, Brett Gelman, to discuss the tumultuous five-year process of getting their film ‘Lemon’ into the world (10:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Make sure to watch the ringer's new live reaction show Talk the Thrones.
0:04.0	Each week Andy Greenwald, the mother of dragons, Mallory Rubin, Chris Ryan, and our very
0:08.2	own Mr. Gsink conception are coming to you live after the East Coast airings of Game
0:12.0	of Thrones season 7.
0:13.4	Let's talk the thrones.
0:14.4	It'll stream exclusively on Twitter and Periscope right after each episode ends, and
0:18.5	can be found on the ringer's Twitter handle at Ringer.
0:21.0	They'll be reacting at the same time as you contextualizing the events and explaining
0:23.9	everything that just unfolded.
0:25.2	Again, this show is called Talk the Thrones, and you can stream it live after the East
0:28.9	Coast airings of Game of Thrones season 7 on our Twitter and Periscope at Ringer.
0:34.0	And now here's the big picture.
0:42.0	The Genix and Brett that wrote lemon are not the Genix and Brett that are sitting here
0:45.2	right now.
0:46.2	I mean, we were exercising our fear, our anxiety, our worry that we were going to be left
0:52.6	behind, and we're definitely a little further along from that space that we were in six
0:58.2	years ago.
1:01.6	My name is Sean Fennesy, I'm the editor in chief of the ringer, and here's the big picture.
1:05.0	We have a very exciting episode today.
1:06.7	I'm joined by two people, Genix Abravo and Brett Gelman.
1:10.8	They are the writing directing producing team behind the new movie Lemon, which is an
1:15.4	awkward, fascinating, deeply unusual comedy about a failure of a man.
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