Understanding the Cannes Awards, Riz Ahmed on the Heartfelt Bait, and What It’s Really Like to Be on Pop Culture Jeopardy
Prestige JunkieShow Notes
Chris Feil joins Katey to look over the winners from this year's allegedly "off" Cannes Film Festival, and predict which titles will be a major part of the coming awards season. They also reveal some behind the scenes details from the experience together on Pop Culture Jeopardy, now on Netflix! Then Katey talks to Riz Ahmed about his limited series Bait, which is both semi-autobiographical and wildly inventive, but all from a deeply personal place.
00:00 Intro
01:51 Recapping Pop Culture Jeopardy
07:51 Why We Love The Cannes Awards
11:10 Neon's Seventh Palme D'or
12:26 A Win For Fjord
14:47 Minotaur Wins The Grand Prix
16:42 The Dreamed Adventure Surprise
18:39 The Black Ball
22:11 Why The Ties Worked This Year
24:10 A Man Of His Time
25:31 Polakowski's Divided Response
26:22 The Queer Palm And American Shutout
29:07 Good Cannes Or Bad Cannes?
31:29 Next: Riz Ahmed
33:02 The 10-Year Journey To Make Bait
35:00 Art As Therapy
36:48 Why It Had To Be Tv
38:06 Genre-Flipping Through Character
39:54 How Patrick Stewart Became A Pig's Head
42:33 Likeable Vs Real Characters
45:46 Getting James Bond Approved
49:03 Love Letter To London
51:51 Shutting Down Brick Lane
53:31 The Most Romantic Episode
55:37 Hamlet As A 15-Year Dream
57:22 Why Passion Projects Are The Only Way
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