The Futurist Vision of Actor and Filmmaker Brit Marling

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 19 November 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

For more than a decade, actor and writer Brit Marling has made futuristic work that reveals truths about our disquieting present. Her latest endeavor, A Murder At the End of the World, is no exception.

We recently sat with Marling in front of a live audience as part of this year’s On Air Fest LA Annex, where we discussed her excellent new show on FX (8:34), the role artificial intelligence may play in the future of filmmaking (14:26), and where she first fell in love with science fiction (20:35). Then, Brit reflects on her winding path at Goldman Sachs and Georgetown (23:40), where she met longtime collaborators Zal Batmanglij and Mike Cahill (25:25) that would eventually result in films like Another Earth and Sound of My Voice (36:18).

On the back-half, we speak on the power of collective action (41:30), the public outcry that followed the cancellation of The OA (45:15), the state of Hollywood (51:12), and why Brit was inspired to direct (57:00) upon finding a passage from the late Polish auteur, Krzysztof Kieślowski (57:35).

You can listen to our 2019 conversation with Marling here.

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Frig, director, and actor, Brit Marling.
0:46.3	For the past 15 years, Marling has made her mark by telling daring, ambitious stories, often set in the near future that reveal something or, frankly, many things about our disquieting present.
0:59.7	From films like Sound in My Voice and Another Earth to the Netflix original series the OA.
1:05.0	She's explored everything from capitalism and climate change to the apocalypse in the
1:10.1	afterlife. She's done this primarily with director and co-conspirator Zahl Mangulich.
1:16.2	The two met at Georgetown back in 2001 and have worked together ever since. Their latest collaboration is for FX, entitled A Murder at the End of the World.
1:27.8	It stars Amakoran as Darby Hart, a Gen Z amateur detective who's been invited to a remote retreat by a reclusive tech billionaire, played by Clyde Owen.
1:39.0	Once at the symposium, Darby stumbles upon a deceased guest, quickly snapping into action to prove there was foul play.
1:47.8	This is a clip for a murder at the end of the world.
1:51.1	Welcome! of the world. Welcome.
1:55.0	It's so exciting to see you all here.
1:59.0	You know him.
2:01.0	A long time ago.
2:07.4	Everyone I've invited here has something extraordinary to offer the group.
2:09.2	Did you know, L.A. Times called her Gen Z Sherlock Holmes.
2:26.0	We don't know who did this, we don't know why, and we don't know if they aren't done. You're afraid? Terrify.
2:28.0	There's something going on that we don't fully understand.
2:32.0	You're just another guest on a retreat,
2:35.0	so long as you play the part.
2:38.0	The thing about getting close in a case...
2:42.0	Careful, girl.
2:44.0	Is it you start to burn?
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