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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
As Donald Trump’s campaign of trans panic and anti-Latin American sentiment buoyed him back to the White House, Emilia Pérez looked like a film to meet the moment. Then audiences started actually seeing it and...yikes.
Guest: Michael Schulman, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears.
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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.
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| 1:01.4 | Okay, Michael, |
| 1:05.4 | last night I tried to stream Amelia Perez. |
| 1:07.3 | I just got to ask, |
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