“I still really believe in storytelling. In some ways, stories are more important now than ever before because it takes so much for our values to shift. It takes groups of people to achieve anything toward making a different world. A collective can really do anything.”
–Brit Marling, episode 353 of Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
For more than a decade, actor and writer Brit Marling has made futuristic work that reveals truths about our disquieting present. Her latest endeavor, A Murder At the End of the World, is no exception.
We recently sat with Marling in front of a live audience as part of this year’s On Air Fest LA Annex, where we discussed her excellent new show on FX (8:34), the role artificial intelligence may play in the future of filmmaking (14:26), and where she first fell in love with science fiction (20:35). Then, Brit reflects on her winding path at Goldman Sachs and Georgetown (23:40), where she met longtime collaborators Zal Batmanglij and Mike Cahill (25:25) that would eventually result in films like Another Earth and Sound of My Voice (36:18).
On the back-half, we speak on the power of collective action (41:30), the public outcry that followed the cancellation of The OA (45:15), the state of Hollywood (51:12), and why Brit was inspired to direct (57:00) upon finding a passage from the late Polish auteur, Krzysztof Kieślowski (57:35).
For questions, comments, or to join our mailing list, drop me a line at sf@talkeasypod.com.
-
-
Show-notes:
- Watch Brit’s new FX series A Murder at the End of the World.
- Stream her work in The OA on Netflix.
- Listen to our first conversation with Brit from 2019.
- See her previous performances in Another Earth, Sound of My Voice, and The East.
- Follow Brit on Instagram and Twitter.
- Learn about On Air Fest on their website.
- For more, listen to our conversations with Michelle Williams, Natasha Lyonne, Tom Hanks, Margaret Atwood, Quinta Brunson, Bill Hader, and Oscar Isaac.
- Order your Talk Easy mug in cream and navy or our vinyl record with Fran Lebowitz.
Illustrations by Krishna Shenoi. Reference photograph by Kadri Koop.
Subscribe, rate, and review: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
-