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Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Secret Life of Bees with Jourdain Searles

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2020

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

A coming-of age story. Racism in America. Complex connections to motherhood. The Secret Life of Bees adaptation had a lot of themes to tackle. This week we look back to 2008 and compare the strengths and weaknesses of Prince-Bythewood’s biggest commercial success. Critic, comedian and co-host (Bad Romance Podcast) Jourdain Searles returns to talk meeting celebrities at the worst moments, Hollywood’s attempts to depict the south, and underrated Queen Latifah performances.

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0:00.0

My whole life has been nothing but a hole where my podcast should have been.

0:25.5

You'd always left me aching but I never thought about what it did to you.

0:30.5

I don't have a Dakota.

0:33.4

No, I'd be impressive if you did.

0:35.4

Yeah.

0:36.4

Is this the like, this is sort of the end of the run of child Dakota, right?

0:42.5

This is unfortunately all I want.

0:44.3

I always thinking about for most of the, I was like, man, the Dakota star arc is weird.

0:49.7

Yes.

0:50.7

The end of young Dakota, I guess, because next year is new moon.

0:58.0

And then the year after that is the runaways.

0:59.7

And I feel like that's when it's like she's a grown up star.

1:03.2

Right, but she becomes supporting or if she's lead, it's in much smaller films.

1:08.0

But this is the end of this insane run in which like not even like McColle Cawkin, but

1:15.2

where a small girl became like a prestige high brown movie star.

1:22.3

It's a weird, it's a weird thing.

1:24.8

There are a lot of clear arcs to talk about here.

1:29.3

Yes, there are.

1:30.3

But what were you going to say?

1:31.5

It's also, it's also just funny that like she was like, you know, one of the big kid

1:36.4

actresses when, you know, in the 2000s and she's still around, but her sister is the

1:41.9

one who got famous in a way.

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