The Forty-Year-Old Version
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the wonderful film The 40-Year-Old Version, playwright Rada Blank plays a variation on |
| 0:10.0 | herself. |
| 0:11.0 | In the film The Fictional Rada, frustrated by a stall in her theater career, finds a new |
| 0:15.9 | passion. |
| 0:16.9 | She becomes a rapper. |
| 0:17.9 | It's about getting older, getting honest, and, yes, finding yourself. |
| 0:22.4 | The film is so good that we recently added it to the Black Filmkin, a list of the best |
| 0:26.9 | films by Black Directors that we updated in partnership with Slate. |
| 0:31.1 | And you can watch it on Netflix. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Aisha Harris. |
| 0:34.6 | And I'm Linda Holmes, and in this encore episode of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we're |
| 0:39.1 | talking about the 40-Year-Old Version. |
| 0:41.5 | It's so good. |
| 0:47.5 | Here with me and Aisha from her home in Brooklyn is Daisy Rosario, an executive producer at Stitcher |
| 0:52.3 | with a new show All American Tiger Woods, which is out now. |
| 0:55.9 | Hi Daisy. |
| 0:56.9 | Hi, I got to stay high to both of you. |
| 0:58.2 | Hi Aisha, hi Linda. |
| 0:59.6 | Hi Daisy. |
| 1:00.6 | And also here from her home in San Antonio, Texas, we're delighted to have writer Keanu |
| 1:07.6 | Fitzgerald. |
| 1:08.6 | Hi Keanu. |
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