Will Forte

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

At long last: Will Forte! The actor, writer, comedian joins us to talk about his new film, Extra Ordinary. In it, Will plays Christian Winter, a washed up American one-hit-wonder living in Ireland who makes a deal with the literal devil for another shot at fame. Rose, played by the hilarious Maeve Higgins, is a driving instructor and a reluctant medium who just might be the only one who can keep their small Irish town safe. Will also chats about what it's like to be both star and showrunner of your own TV series and his self-described "weird" brand of comedy. All that and more on the next Bullseye!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:08.6	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:15.3	Have you heard about Extraordinary?
0:23.6	It's a new movie set in Ireland.
0:26.0	Very fun.
0:27.0	Here's the premise.
0:28.0	Ghosts are real.
0:29.6	They can haunt just about anything.
0:31.9	A home, a cheese with live cultures, a gravel.
0:40.3	So usually the ghosts are easy to miss unless you have the gift of second sight.
0:45.6	Rose, the hero of the film, has that gift.
0:48.3	She's played brilliantly by our friend Maeve Higgins.
0:52.0	Rose got it from her father, a professional medium and TV host.
0:56.6	Only the whole paranormal world isn't really her scene.
1:01.0	She has a day job as a driving instructor that she likes fine.
1:06.1	The villain is Christian Winter, played by my guest, Will Forte.
1:10.6	An American singer who had a hit song decades ago and is living off the royalties in a castle
1:16.2	in Rose's small Irish town.
1:18.7	He's got a plan though, to make a deal with the devil sacrifice a virgin and become famous
1:24.1	again.
1:25.4	Really Rose can stop him.
1:28.5	Charge to imagine a better person to play a satanic American rock star than Will Forte.
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