You Were Never Really Here with Sean Clements

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Summary

In 2018, Lynne Ramsay released You Were Never Really Here, a film about a completely implausible scenario...a townhouse on the East side of Manhattan houses a sex trafficking operation that implicates high-level government officials in its web of depravity???? Could you even imagine?!! Hollywood Handbook's Sean Clements joins us to chat about this eerily relevant film, the literary career of Jonathan Ames, Joaquin Phoenix's screen persona, and Joseph Gordon Levitt's recently announced follow-up to Don Jon. Listen to Hayes Davenport's (not a guest on this episode) episode of High & Mighty where he talks about newspaper comics. Sign up for Check Book, the Blank Check newsletter featuring even more “real nerdy shit” to feed your pop culture obsession. Dossier excerpts, film biz AND burger reports, and even more exclusive content you won’t want to miss out on. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Twitter, Instagram, Threads and Facebook! 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	Blank Check with Griffin and David
0:04.7	Blank Jack with Griffin and David
0:08.7	Don't know what to say or to expect
0:11.7	All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check
0:17.7	Joe wake up It's a beautiful podcast.
0:25.4	So this is...
0:26.7	That's the last line of the film.
0:27.9	That is true, but this is a dialogue, light movie.
0:30.8	It is.
0:31.5	I was like, what's he going to say?
0:33.4	I guess that's true.
0:34.4	Lynn Ramsey testing me on the opening quotes.
0:36.9	Was there a tagline?
0:39.8	What if you say?
0:40.3	Get ready to meet Joe.
0:42.6	Like, what's the like worst tagline you can tell?
0:45.1	Joe does things a little differently.
0:47.4	There's a quote.
0:48.2	There's a poll quote on the poster that is taxi driver for a new century, which is a way to attempt to sell this movie with the moodiest
0:55.9	poster of all time, just like Joaquin Phoenix looking tortured and a girl like drowning, super
1:02.4	imposed inside his body.
1:04.1	Right.
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