What Women Want with Lola Kirke

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2018

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Actress and singer-songwriter, Lola Kirke (Mozart in the Jungle) joins Griffin and David to discuss 2000’s high-concept rom-com, What Women Want. Together they examine the careers of Helen Hunt and Mel Gibson, the other benefits of electrocution and how this film holds up 18 years later after its release. And check out Lola Kirke’s new album Heart Head West and her starring role in the feature film, Gemini. Music selection: “Mr. Man” from freesfx.co.uk. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Instagram, Threads, Facebook and X! Buy some real nerdy merch. Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord. For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's the difference between a wife and a podcast after 10 years of podcast?
0:25.0	That's so sucks.
0:26.0	That was a heartbreaking moment.
0:28.0	That's terrible.
0:29.0	That's terrible.
0:30.0	That's how the film sets up this character who's going to be not really redeemed by the
0:36.0	end of the movie.
0:37.0	I like that he was fired.
0:39.5	I like that too.
0:40.5	That was helpful.
0:41.5	Oil or a lot.
0:42.5	He is fired, but is he fired?
0:44.3	Not just for the last thing of it, right?
0:46.4	As her boyfriend, but fired as a...
0:48.4	That was the implication.
0:49.4	I think so.
0:50.4	Because I was worried that she'd fired him and then he's like, and she's like, oh, no,
0:54.5	no, that was such a relief about that movie because as somebody who is a woman and is
1:00.3	also as a woman, I hate that sentence.
1:03.6	But look, this movie is about the fact that men and women are so different.
1:08.1	You're speaking Venetian right now.
1:09.9	We've got to own our languages.
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