The Waves: How to Survive in Hollywood

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of The Waves - the freelancing side of acting with Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actress Caroline Aaron. Slate senior supervising producer Daisy Rosario is joined by Caroline Aaron - a familiar face in movies for over forty years, if not a household name. They discuss building a life with an unstable career path, how women’s stories are done a disservice in film and television, and how Caroline’s show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel seeks to overturn all of that. In Slate Plus, Caroline discusses working with strong women like Amy Sherman Palladino and Nora Ephron. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to [email protected]. Make an impact this Earth Month by helping Macy’s on their mission to bring more parks to more people across the country. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So you don't mind if I smoke.
0:02.6	Oh my god, if you do smoke, I would honestly have me into it.
0:10.8	Welcome to the Waves Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and surviving the entertainment
0:15.2	industry for over 40 years.
0:17.8	Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing we cannot get off
0:20.8	of our minds.
0:21.8	And today you've got me, Daisy Rosario, senior supervising producer of audio here at
0:26.0	Slate.
0:27.0	And today I'm talking to character actress extraordinaire Caroline Aaron.
0:32.6	Like almost all incredible character actors, Caroline Aaron has a name that you might not
0:37.0	recognize, but a face that you'll remember from many movies and television shows, including
0:41.6	Edward Scissorhands, sleepless in Seattle, 21 Jump Street, The Movie, Sex in the City,
0:47.4	and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
0:49.3	And of course, she's most recently been in the spotlight for her role in Amazon's The
0:53.2	Marvelous Mrs.
0:54.9	The show follows the story of Midge Maisel, a Jewish wife and mother in 1950's New York
0:58.8	City, who discovers she has a real talent as a stand-up comedian.
1:02.8	Aaron plays Shirley Maisel, the mother-in-law of the title character.
1:07.0	In this scene, she explains her very special accounting system for the family business.
1:11.9	This column is the money we have, this column is the money we will have to see these people
1:16.5	from this column, or that column pay us, unless it has a bagel stamp, which means it's still
1:20.5	being negotiated, but we started the work anyway.
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