Hello and

welcome to Little Gold Men, the podcast from Vanity Fair and Panambley that proves that

a award season really is a year-round event.

I'm Katie Rich the deputy editor of vanity fair.com and I'm here with our digital

director Mike Kogan. Hey Katie. And our senior writer Joanna Robinson.

Hello Katie.

Later we'll be joined by our film critic Richard Lawson,

who is still over at Cannes, who will give us the latest from there.

But in the meantime, we have some pretty exciting news happening right here

at Vanity Fair. It's Star Wars Week!

Woe! Sure, you've all had it marked on your calendars as we have.

We have this huge Star Wars feature, the cover of the magazine.

Annie Leewitz went to the set of the movie

as she has for all of the Star Wars movies

since the Phantom Menace and came back

with this pretty astonishing portfolio.

There's also a cover story written by David Camp

where he interviews Ryan Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy and a lot of members of the

Cath. There's a lot of talk about Carrie Fisher and her work on the film just a few months before she died.

Joanna, you have read the story in detail, you've looked at the photos, you've written a lot of really great

companion pieces on the site. What were you the most excited when you finally got to see the portfolio?

It's funny, so you know, we did a lot of this, this is a lot of cloak and dagger around this this magazine issue, which is really fun.

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