Work in Progress: Lake Bell

Drama Queens

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Tv & Film

4.9 • 23.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Lake Bell is known for acting, directing and screenwriting, and now she adds children’s author to her credits! Inspired by her young daughter’s journey with epilepsy, Lake hopes “All About Brains: A Book About People” will normalize the conversation about neurodivergency -- something Sophia wished people were doing when she was a child!

Lake and Sophia get real about everything from politics to parenthood, including the plight of being a night owl with kids.

Plus, Sophia shares a wild encounter inside an airport bathroom that’ll have every woman wondering what she’d do in that situation. “All About Brains: A Book About People” is available at booksellers everywhere.

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0:41.1	Hey everyone. It's Sophia. Welcome to work in progress.
1:00.0	Hello, Whipsmarties today. We are joined by one of my favorite smart,
1:06.5	creative, I mean, brilliant women who also happens to be one of the coolest chicks that I know.
1:20.4	Today's guest is actress, writer, and director, Lake Bell, who is starring in the upcoming series, The Chair Company on HBO, and who has just released a book inspired by her daughter.
1:29.1	The book is called All About Brains, a book about people, and it is a whimsical story that celebrates the ways all of our different brains make us special in a lighthearted and you'll hear me crying emotional exploration of neurodiversity.
1:37.1	The book was inspired by Lake's own daughter, Nova. And today we're going to talk about what it's
1:42.6	like to be a parent of a brilliant and different kid, what both of our journeys with families look like, and how she views her career as both a personal sense of expression and as a real responsibility because with a platform comes privilege and Lake is so amazing at mobilizing
2:02.8	her privilege for others in really beautiful and inclusive ways. Let's dive in with Lake Bell. I was reading so many articles about your audiobook because it fascinates me.
2:25.9	And also I feel like I needed to go back in time a little bit.
2:29.4	And when you were talking about having a voice like you have, a voice similar to my own. I was going to say,
2:36.0	you, yeah, you were on the list of unique voices. Well, just in terms of what it was like as a young
2:42.2	actor, particularly not sounding like, all the little ingenues. Yeah, yeah. I was like,
2:48.8	oh my God, same girl. I feel it. Yeah. Well, I think it, I think, you know,
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