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Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Portrait of a Lady with Marie Bardi

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.76.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2022

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

This lady might not be “on fire” but she IS wearing a 19 inch corset! Social media maven Marie Bardi joins the boys to dissect Campion’s tepidly received follow-up to “The Piano” - the emotionally claustrophobic 1996 Henry James adaptation “The Portrait of a Lady”. If “The Piano” gave Jane her Blank Check, this film is a big swing and (in our opinion) a slight miss. Topics discussed include: John Malkovich’s clothing line for the modern dandy; the unfortunate plastic surgery-shaming of actress Barbara Hershey; Viggo Mortsenson’s performance in “Green Book” (one of our favorite topics);  and, of course, the queen of AMC Theaters herself - Nicole Kidman. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Instagram, Threads, Facebook and X! Buy some real nerdy merch. Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I know plenty of dingy podcasts I don't want to know anymore.

0:29.0

Nothing else. The cadence. Perfect. I was working on a lot of cadence. I think the volume

0:36.1

and the cadence, I think I have there's certain ways he pronounce certain words that I have not

0:43.4

exactly nailed. I really buy the argument that he is that he makes that he is a bad actor,

0:50.6

but there's just nobody like him. Like that's Markovitch's argument. Look, this is going to be

0:55.1

25% of Markovitch episode. Yeah, we ever talked Markovitch on the pod before. I know we've

0:59.8

invoked him. We've invoked the mighty Markovitch. And then he's never come.

1:05.2

People were, I'm like, in seven years have we never covered a movie? I'm calling up the filmography.

1:11.5

I don't know. Well, Bayo Wolf. He is in Bayo Wolf. Creepy CGI Markovitch.

1:18.9

Doesn't really care. But you know, when doing Spielberg, you don't do

1:23.3

him. We haven't done it. We didn't do it. Right. We'll do it someday. Man, he's got a lot of

1:28.5

credits. He's one of those guys who works more than you think. Yeah. He's got to maintain his like

1:34.4

Lisbon club. Did you know about that? Yeah. And his weird fashion line. We've been perked up.

1:41.2

Okay. Huh? John Malkovitch owns like a bar and restaurant or like a dance club in Lisbon,

1:48.3

Portugal. Okay. Yes. I've never been there. I've heard it's cool. But it's kind of an interesting

1:56.7

like side gig. But John Malkovitch also has a clothing line because he was like, no one was

2:01.7

making the blazers I wanted to wear. We did, we did a secretary at episode, right? We did do.

2:09.0

I think we did a Randall Wallace mini series. Let's see. I'm still I'm going and I'm not

2:13.8

see apart from Bay of Wolf. Of course. Look up. Look up. Ben just while David's doing this Google

2:20.1

Malkovitch clothing line. Yeah. No. Look. I mean, one of the most fascinating

2:27.6

figures in we never we've never done him apart from. Okay. So we're going to go deep on it because

2:34.0

this is this is it's not like this is quintessential performance. But in a certain way, this is a movie

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