What It's Like to Have Someone Play You on TV
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A conversation with Rebecca Skloot and Rose Byrne, who plays Rebecca Skloot in HBO's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Plus a look at this season of The Leftovers and the Tribeca Film Festival.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the podcast from Vanity Fair and |
| 0:12.1 | Panoply that proves that award season is a year-round event. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of vanityfair.com, and I'm here with our film critic, Richard Lawson. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello. |
| 0:20.2 | And our digital director, Mike Hogan. |
| 0:21.2 | We've lost Joanna, who's off in Los Angeles, because she can just jet down to LA whenever she |
| 0:25.2 | wants. |
| 0:26.2 | That's how California works. |
| 0:27.2 | I think. |
| 0:28.2 | Well jet in a car. |
| 0:29.2 | Those beautiful picturesque highways. |
| 0:32.2 | So at the end of this episode, we're going to share an interview that I did. beautiful picturesque highways. |
| 0:33.0 | So at the end of this episode, we're going to share an interview that I did with Rebecca |
| 0:35.5 | Scoot and Rose Byrne. |
| 0:37.0 | Rose is an actor in the HBO movie The Immortal Life of Henry |
| 0:40.3 | Alex and it is based on Rebecca Sloot's book. |
| 0:42.1 | And Rose Byrne actually plays Rebecca Schlute and this is the |
| 0:44.4 | first time I think I've interviewed a person and then the person who |
| 0:46.9 | plays them in a movie which is a really interesting real experience and |
| 0:49.9 | uh... they look alike which you don't necessarily expect for an author because who knows what an author looks like they could have done whenever |
| 0:55.3 | You should have brought an actor to play you |
| 1:01.1 | Yeah, very very Charlie coffee. Yeah, or you guys could have pretended to be me and I could have hidden behind a screen. |
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