Why Andor Is the Best Television of the Year So Far (With Adria Arjona)
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Conde Nast & Vanity Fair
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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This week, VF's Senior Hollywood Correspondent Anthony Breznican joins the show for a deep dive into Andor's widely acclaimed second and final season, and later, star Adria Arjona talks about her character's major turning point at the season's midpoint. Plus, Rebecca breaks down her reporting on the slew of new Oscar rules announced last week, and the hosts dig into the starry new additions to the Cannes Film Festival lineup.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm David Canfield. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Richard Lawson. |
| 0:11.8 | And I'm Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:15.9 | Today on the show, we are talking about Andor. |
| 0:19.3 | Our colleague Anthony Bresnikin is going to join us to discuss |
| 0:21.7 | the new season of the Star Wars prequel series. And a little bit later, Adria Arjona joins a show and |
| 0:27.8 | speaks with me about her big episode which just aired. Here is your spoiler alert. We'll be talking about |
| 0:32.0 | everything through to episode six of season two, as well as Bix's journey through the show so far |
| 0:36.8 | and what we might expect |
| 0:37.9 | as we approach the end of the final season. |
| 0:41.1 | But before we get into Andor, some slightly delayed reactions from us on new Oscar rules |
| 0:46.9 | that broke a couple of weeks ago, a lot of new Oscar rules, actually. |
| 0:51.3 | And we're also going to talk about some new additions to the Can Film Festival lineup, |
| 0:55.2 | pretty much rounding out what we will be seeing on the Quassette later this month. But to start, |
| 1:02.5 | Oscar rules, there's a whole lot of them. Rebecca, you wrote about them for us on VanityBeard.com. |
| 1:06.8 | What's the headline? Will the Academy watch the movies? |
| 1:12.0 | It's true. It's more of a question. |
| 1:14.3 | It's so ridiculous, but I think the rule change? |
| 1:18.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:19.1 | The new rule that got the most attention was the fact that the Academy stated that all voting members must now watch all nominated films in each category to be eligible to vote in the final round for the Oscars. |
| 1:33.0 | So this sounds insane to have to say it, but they are now requiring voters to make sure they watch the nominated films in a category. |
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