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A detective story, she wrote, \"confirms our hope that, despite some evidence to the contrary, we live in a beneficent and moral universe in which problems can be solved by rational means.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>The new movie \u003cem>Wake Up Dead Man\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/12/1142183112/glass-onion-knives-out-rian-johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Rian Johnson\u003c/a>'s latest whodunit after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/27/782165138/knives-out-a-classic-comic-mystery-of-uncommon-sharpness\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Knives Out\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1143149795/we-spoil-glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Glass Onion\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, is too funny and slyly over-the-top to feel like a P.D. James story; to my knowledge, James never incorporated body-dissolving acid or the old poisoned-beverage switcheroo trick. But in his own crafty way, Johnson is also using mystery conventions to open up a spiritual inquiry. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The story takes place in and around a Catholic church at a small town in upstate New York, where a junior priest named Jud Duplenticy, played by a terrific \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/25/nx-s1-5509945/josh-oconnor-talks-about-his-leading-role-in-the-art-heist-film-the-mastermind\" target=\"_blank\">Josh O'Connor\u003c/a>, has been assigned to serve. Unfortunately, he's forced to work under Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, whom \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/12/04/368236521/after-decades-acting-josh-brolin-still-wonders-if-hes-good-enough\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Brolin\u003c/a> plays as an angry fundamentalist firebrand, spewing hatred and contempt for gay people, single moms and the entire hell-bound secular world.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Although Wicks' behavior has reduced church attendance, he's surrounded himself with a small group of loyalists. The most devoted is Martha, who keeps the church running; she's played by an amusingly nosy \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/693974655/well-before-the-wife-glenn-close-was-ready-for-her-close-up\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Close\u003c/a>. There's also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/25/1201488524/kerry-washington-thicker-than-water-memoir\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry Washington\u003c/a> as a sharp-witted attorney and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/27/1166178259/jeremy-renner-snow-plow-accident-update\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Renner\u003c/a> as a sad-sack alcoholic doctor. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/25/nx-s1-5080549/cailee-spaeny-stars-in-the-new-instalment-of-the-alien-movies\" target=\"_blank\">Cailee Spaeny\u003c/a> plays a famous cellist who donates large sums to the church, in hopes that God will heal her chronic pain. Two characters feel like sharp, cynical jabs at American conservatism: One is a formerly liberal writer, played by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/08/1243380181/ripley-netflix-andrew-scott\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Scott\u003c/a>, who's since drifted rightward. The other is a failed young Republican politician turned aspiring YouTuber, played by Daryl McCormack.\u003c/p>\u003cp>With the best of intentions, Jud tries hard to break Wicks' hold on his flock and lead them into deeper faith in God. But he succeeds only in making an even greater enemy of the monsignor. And when Wicks is fatally stabbed in the church — and on Good Friday, no less — suspicion immediately falls on Jud. But Jud insists that he's innocent, and before long, the private investigator Benoit Blanc, played once again by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2011/12/20/143970761/from-bond-to-blomkvist-daniel-craigs-next-big-role\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Craig\u003c/a> with a courtly Southern drawl, comes knocking.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Blanc believes that Jud is innocent and enlists him to help solve the murder, which won't be easy. Wicks is the victim of what is known in detective fiction as an impossible crime, one that seems to defy rational explanation. At one point, Blanc gives Jud and the audience a crash course in the work of John Dickson Carr, the undisputed master of the impossible-crime novel. Since Carr is another of my favorite writers, Johnson's next-level genre geekery almost had me levitating out of my seat.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>Wake Up Dead Man\u003c/em> may not be the best movie I've seen this year, but in some ways — and I don't often say this kind of thing — it feels like the movie that was made most \u003cem>for\u003c/em> me. That goes for its ideas as well as its genre trappings. Just as the first two \u003cem>Knives Out\u003c/em> movies skewered racism, classism, billionaires and tech bros, \u003cem>Wake Up Dead Man\u003c/em> takes sharp aim at what it sees as the intolerance and insularity of the Christian right. The political jabs aren't always subtle, and sometimes, the petty, ill-tempered parishioners sound too alike in their strident bickering. But that just makes Father Jud all the more appealing a character, as he sets out to humbly yet radically love his community.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Given how good O'Connor has been lately, in movies like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1247149132/challenges-review-zendaya-tennis\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Challengers\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/28/nx-s1-5588480/the-mastermind-review-louvre-heist\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>The Mastermind\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, it's saying a lot that this is one of his best performances — and one that elevates this snarky, satirical murder farce to a genuinely contemplative plane. Even as tensions mount — there's more than one victim, and possibly more than one killer — the movie becomes a kind of theological debate, pitting Jud the earnest believer against Blanc the fierce skeptic. Who emerges the winner? Let's just say that with a puzzle as satisfyingly constructed as \u003cem>Wake Up Dead Man\u003c/em>, God really is in the details. \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When I was in my early teens, I was both a devout churchgoer and an avid reader of mysteries. One of my favorite writers was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/12/01/367766895/p-d-james-believed-mysteries-were-made-of-clues-not-coincidences\" target=\"_blank\">P.D. James\u003c/a>, whose Anglican faith informed her fiction in subtle ways. For James, the plotting and solving of murder was a grisly yet profoundly moral undertaking. A detective story, she wrote, \"confirms our hope that, despite some evidence to the contrary, we live in a beneficent and moral universe in which problems can be solved by rational means.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>The new movie \u003cem>Wake Up Dead Man\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/12/1142183112/glass-onion-knives-out-rian-johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Rian Johnson\u003c/a>'s latest whodunit after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/27/782165138/knives-out-a-classic-comic-mystery-of-uncommon-sharpness\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Knives Out\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1143149795/we-spoil-glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Glass Onion\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, is too funny and slyly over-the-top to feel like a P.D. James story; to my knowledge, James never incorporated body-dissolving acid or the old poisoned-beverage switcheroo trick. But in his own crafty way, Johnson is also using mystery conventions to open up a spiritual inquiry. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The story takes place in and around a Catholic church at a small town in upstate New York, where a junior priest named Jud Duplenticy, played by a terrific \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/25/nx-s1-5509945/josh-oconnor-talks-about-his-leading-role-in-the-art-heist-film-the-mastermind\" target=\"_blank\">Josh O'Connor\u003c/a>, has been assigned to serve. Unfortunately, he's forced to work under Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, whom \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/12/04/368236521/after-decades-acting-josh-brolin-still-wonders-if-hes-good-enough\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Brolin\u003c/a> plays as an angry fundamentalist firebrand, spewing hatred and contempt for gay people, single moms and the entire hell-bound secular world.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Although Wicks' behavior has reduced church attendance, he's surrounded himself with a small group of loyalists. The most devoted is Martha, who keeps the church running; she's played by an amusingly nosy \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/693974655/well-before-the-wife-glenn-close-was-ready-for-her-close-up\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Close\u003c/a>. There's also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/25/1201488524/kerry-washington-thicker-than-water-memoir\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry Washington\u003c/a> as a sharp-witted attorney and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/27/1166178259/jeremy-renner-snow-plow-accident-update\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Renner\u003c/a> as a sad-sack alcoholic doctor. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/25/nx-s1-5080549/cailee-spaeny-stars-in-the-new-instalment-of-the-alien-movies\" target=\"_blank\">Cailee Spaeny\u003c/a> plays a famous cellist who donates large sums to the church, in hopes that God will heal her chronic pain. Two characters feel like sharp, cynical jabs at American conservatism: One is a formerly liberal writer, played by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/08/1243380181/ripley-netflix-andrew-scott\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Scott\u003c/a>, who's since drifted rightward. The other is a failed young Republican politician turned aspiring YouTuber, played by Daryl McCormack.\u003c/p>\u003cp>With the best of intentions, Jud tries hard to break Wicks' hold on his flock and lead them into deeper faith in God. But he succeeds only in making an even greater enemy of the monsignor. And when Wicks is fatally stabbed in the church — and on Good Friday, no less — suspicion immediately falls on Jud. But Jud insists that he's innocent, and before long, the private investigator Benoit Blanc, played once again by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2011/12/20/143970761/from-bond-to-blomkvist-daniel-craigs-next-big-role\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Craig\u003c/a> with a courtly Southern drawl, comes knocking.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Blanc believes that Jud is innocent and enlists him to help solve the murder, which won't be easy. Wicks is the victim of what is known in detective fiction as an impossible crime, one that seems to defy rational explanation. At one point, Blanc gives Jud and the audience a crash course in the work of John Dickson Carr, the undisputed master of the impossible-crime novel. Since Carr is another of my favorite writers, Johnson's next-level genre geekery almost had me levitating out of my seat.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>Wake Up Dead Man\u003c/em> may not be the best movie I've seen this year, but in some ways — and I don't often say this kind of thing — it feels like the movie that was made most \u003cem>for\u003c/em> me. That goes for its ideas as well as its genre trappings. Just as the first two \u003cem>Knives Out\u003c/em> movies skewered racism, classism, billionaires and tech bros, \u003cem>Wake Up Dead Man\u003c/em> takes sharp aim at what it sees as the intolerance and insularity of the Christian right. The political jabs aren't always subtle, and sometimes, the petty, ill-tempered parishioners sound too alike in their strident bickering. But that just makes Father Jud all the more appealing a character, as he sets out to humbly yet radically love his community.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Given how good O'Connor has been lately, in movies like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1247149132/challenges-review-zendaya-tennis\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Challengers\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/28/nx-s1-5588480/the-mastermind-review-louvre-heist\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>The Mastermind\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, it's saying a lot that this is one of his best performances — and one that elevates this snarky, satirical murder farce to a genuinely contemplative plane. Even as tensions mount — there's more than one victim, and possibly more than one killer — the movie becomes a kind of theological debate, pitting Jud the earnest believer against Blanc the fierce skeptic. Who emerges the winner? Let's just say that with a puzzle as satisfyingly constructed as \u003cem>Wake Up Dead Man\u003c/em>, God really is in the details. \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It puts you on a beneficial or receivership and when you wanna be in an influential space with someone, you wanna not to have that detriment, that little garbage, that little layer between you, that just makes a difference. And I recognize that as something that I felt was important as a leader and a coach.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Smith:\u003c/strong> Phil wasn't asking Michael for things. He was trying to help him improve. And over the years, that's what I've seen in players. They want two things from a coach. Just two things: Are you credible? Do you know what you're doing? And can you help me be better? And I thought that was really the reason why [the players] ...\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>really came to trust Phil and more so the system of play, which enabled them to succeed.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Smith's 1991 book, \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Jordan Rules\u003c/em>, which revealed gambling and bullying\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Smith:\u003c/strong> I never wrote anything, which sort of was my promise at the time, that would hurt their lives. And I'm still doing the same thing, and Michael's a billionaire. So he's obviously done pretty well since then. But sort of the point was basketball is all fair game. I didn't write about personal life off the court, whatever your life is your life. … \u003c/p>\u003cp>What he liked was being challenged. Like I would come in and say, \"Oh yeah, Mr. Star, I noticed you just missed six of your last eight free throws, big star.\" \"OK, I'll show you,\" and then he goes out and makes the next 12. He loved that kind of stuff. A lot of the greatest players are like that. That rather than telling them how great they are, tell them they're not so great and they'll show you.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On coaching Kobe Bryant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackson:\u003c/strong> He's very sensitive and he does not take criticism lightly. Those are things that I had to learn. That he did not want to be compared to Michael [Jordan], even though his game emulated Michael, down to the fact that he even did a number of physical movements that could only have been influenced by watching \u003cem>Come Fly With Me\u003c/em>, which was an important video tape of Michael Jordan's heroics that came out in like 1990 or '89… It just was a huge influence on a kid like Kobe who is probably 10, 11, 12 years of age, where boys are gravitating towards what they can do well, and this is something that he knew he could do really well. … \u003c/p>\u003cp>When he first came into playing for the Lakers when I was coaching, ... I gave him a lead guard role. Which meant he had to set up the floor, he had to be able to feed Shaq, who was the primary focus of the game, and he had to take the leftovers as part of the game as it came to him. And a lot of times he felt left out ... like, \"I need to explore my own part of the game.\" So that's where initially we had to be juggling things a little bit between each other … Eventually I moved him into a role that was very similar to Michael Jordan's, which gave him much more latitude in the game.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Kobe growing into a leadership role\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackson:\u003c/strong> He wanted to be captain of the team. He was 22. And I was like, \"Well, you don't go out with the players. The players tell me you stay in the room all the time, you watch tape of the game last night that you played, you're not interested in the conversations that they're having. If you want to be a leader, you need to really rub shoulders with your teammates.\" And he was like, \"They're into hubcaps and their cars and the girls and clubs and rap music, and those aren't the passions that I have right now. Basketball's my focus.\" ...\u003c/p>\u003cp>I started, giving him books, like ... \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Tao of Leadership\u003c/em> and some books that were talking about growing into the role that he was gonna play. … He became a really good leader and took it to heart.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On seeing Kobe a week before he died\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackson:\u003c/strong> We talked about the good times. We talked about his kids, that he was coaching a girls' team of basketball where [his daughter] Gigi was really a dominant player. ... Talked about his traversing from Orange County up into the Valley into Westlake and taking helicopters. ... He'd used helicopters to travel from LAX, the airport in LA down to Orange County after we come in at 2 in the morning. … It was tragic and yet his legacy [has] really shown up. It's been played out. Young players are carrying him forward and using his example of hard work and tenaciousness and competitiveness to their advantage.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/13/532740776/dennis-rodman-says-hes-on-mission-to-north-korea\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Rodman\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>'s \"bad boy\" reputation and finding a way to coach him\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackson:\u003c/strong> Dennis was a guy who was a team player. He wasn't creating situations with his teammates. He was very likable by his teammates. … He was not a guy that shot the ball, but he loved to pass the ball. He loved to do the dirty work, he liked to rebound, he liked to do all that stuff. And he'd stand up for his teammates and the blood and sweat of what's all about as a team. He was pretty non-communicative. … His inability to stay focused was something I recognized [in] juveniles or with kids that I'd seen growing up.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On being a coach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackson:\u003c/strong> It's been my privilege to be in the NBA, around the people in the NBA, and to have played with teammates that have won championships and have coached players that have been desirous of being unselfish, cooperative, and desirous of competing at a high level and accepting the coaching and the instructions and the lifestyle and culture that somehow surrounded them when I've been in their presence. And so it's been a wonderful ride for me to have experienced this.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>Heidi Saman and Anna Bauman produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Meghan Sullivan adapted it for the web.\u003c/em>\u003cbr> \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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One name that comes up repeatedly is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/16/1123538650/michael-jordans-jersey-sold-for-10-million\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Jordan\u003c/a>, who Jackson coached to six championships.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"What so many people admired about Michael Jordan is he took the blows and went right back to the free throw line,\" Jackson says. \"When players were playing four games in five nights at that time — which they don't do anymore — he could play ... the fifth night as hard as he played the first game in that series.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Smith notes that NBA success isn't just a question of physical stature. At 7 feet, 1 inch, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/06/01/136863224/shaquille-oneal-announces-retirement-on-twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Shaquille O'Neal\u003c/a> was so physically dominant he \"could have been the best player in history,\" Smith says. And yet, Smith adds, Shaq's Lakers teammate \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/26/799742377/kobe-was-more-than-an-athlete-the-sports-world-mourns-a-basketball-legend\" target=\"_blank\">Kobe Bryant\u003c/a> was more serious about the game.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"Kobe took the game seriously because he wasn't as physically talented. His hand wasn't as big like Jordan. He couldn't palm the ball like that and dominate the game,\" Smith says. \"He was in the gym there at 8 in the morning, 6 in the morning, 8 at night, 10 at night, whatever, all the time.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003chr />\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Interview highlights\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Jackson building trust with Michael Jordan by not asking him for favors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackson:\u003c/strong> I think it puts you on a different level when you start asking for things. It puts you on a beneficial or receivership and when you wanna be in an influential space with someone, you wanna not to have that detriment, that little garbage, that little layer between you, that just makes a difference. And I recognize that as something that I felt was important as a leader and a coach.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Smith:\u003c/strong> Phil wasn't asking Michael for things. He was trying to help him improve. And over the years, that's what I've seen in players. They want two things from a coach. Just two things: Are you credible? Do you know what you're doing? And can you help me be better? And I thought that was really the reason why [the players] ...\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>really came to trust Phil and more so the system of play, which enabled them to succeed.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Smith's 1991 book, \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Jordan Rules\u003c/em>, which revealed gambling and bullying\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Smith:\u003c/strong> I never wrote anything, which sort of was my promise at the time, that would hurt their lives. And I'm still doing the same thing, and Michael's a billionaire. So he's obviously done pretty well since then. But sort of the point was basketball is all fair game. I didn't write about personal life off the court, whatever your life is your life. … \u003c/p>\u003cp>What he liked was being challenged. Like I would come in and say, \"Oh yeah, Mr. Star, I noticed you just missed six of your last eight free throws, big star.\" \"OK, I'll show you,\" and then he goes out and makes the next 12. He loved that kind of stuff. A lot of the greatest players are like that. That rather than telling them how great they are, tell them they're not so great and they'll show you.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On coaching Kobe Bryant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackson:\u003c/strong> He's very sensitive and he does not take criticism lightly. Those are things that I had to learn. That he did not want to be compared to Michael [Jordan], even though his game emulated Michael, down to the fact that he even did a number of physical movements that could only have been influenced by watching \u003cem>Come Fly With Me\u003c/em>, which was an important video tape of Michael Jordan's heroics that came out in like 1990 or '89… It just was a huge influence on a kid like Kobe who is probably 10, 11, 12 years of age, where boys are gravitating towards what they can do well, and this is something that he knew he could do really well. … \u003c/p>\u003cp>When he first came into playing for the Lakers when I was coaching, ... I gave him a lead guard role. Which meant he had to set up the floor, he had to be able to feed Shaq, who was the primary focus of the game, and he had to take the leftovers as part of the game as it came to him. And a lot of times he felt left out ... like, \"I need to explore my own part of the game.\" So that's where initially we had to be juggling things a little bit between each other … Eventually I moved him into a role that was very similar to Michael Jordan's, which gave him much more latitude in the game.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Kobe growing into a leadership role\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackson:\u003c/strong> He wanted to be captain of the team. He was 22. And I was like, \"Well, you don't go out with the players. The players tell me you stay in the room all the time, you watch tape of the game last night that you played, you're not interested in the conversations that they're having. If you want to be a leader, you need to really rub shoulders with your teammates.\" And he was like, \"They're into hubcaps and their cars and the girls and clubs and rap music, and those aren't the passions that I have right now. Basketball's my focus.\" ...\u003c/p>\u003cp>I started, giving him books, like ... \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Tao of Leadership\u003c/em> and some books that were talking about growing into the role that he was gonna play. … He became a really good leader and took it to heart.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On seeing Kobe a week before he died\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackson:\u003c/strong> We talked about the good times. We talked about his kids, that he was coaching a girls' team of basketball where [his daughter] Gigi was really a dominant player. ... Talked about his traversing from Orange County up into the Valley into Westlake and taking helicopters. ... He'd used helicopters to travel from LAX, the airport in LA down to Orange County after we come in at 2 in the morning. … It was tragic and yet his legacy [has] really shown up. It's been played out. Young players are carrying him forward and using his example of hard work and tenaciousness and competitiveness to their advantage.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/13/532740776/dennis-rodman-says-hes-on-mission-to-north-korea\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Rodman\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>'s \"bad boy\" reputation and finding a way to coach him\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackson:\u003c/strong> Dennis was a guy who was a team player. He wasn't creating situations with his teammates. He was very likable by his teammates. … He was not a guy that shot the ball, but he loved to pass the ball. He loved to do the dirty work, he liked to rebound, he liked to do all that stuff. And he'd stand up for his teammates and the blood and sweat of what's all about as a team. He was pretty non-communicative. … His inability to stay focused was something I recognized [in] juveniles or with kids that I'd seen growing up.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On being a coach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackson:\u003c/strong> It's been my privilege to be in the NBA, around the people in the NBA, and to have played with teammates that have won championships and have coached players that have been desirous of being unselfish, cooperative, and desirous of competing at a high level and accepting the coaching and the instructions and the lifestyle and culture that somehow surrounded them when I've been in their presence. And so it's been a wonderful ride for me to have experienced this.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>Heidi Saman and Anna Bauman produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Meghan Sullivan adapted it for the web.\u003c/em>\u003cbr> \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Anyone will tell you that these are tumultuous, borderline-apocalyptic times for the film industry. Box office is down. The threat of AI looms. Billionaires and tech giants are laying waste to what remains of the major Hollywood studios. I'm not entirely sure how to square all this bad news with my own good news, which is that I saw more terrific new movies this year than I have any year since before the pandemic. True, most of those movies weren't from here, but all of them played in U.S. theaters in 2025, and all of them are well worth seeking out in the weeks and months to come.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/14/nx-s1-5608107/sirat-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Sirāt\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The best new movie I saw this year is a breakthrough work from a gifted Spanish filmmaker named Oliver Laxe. It's a nail-biting survival thriller, set in the desert of southern Morocco during what feels like the end-times. It's a little \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/02/08/465989808/mad-max-director-george-miller-the-audience-tells-you-what-your-film-is\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Mad Max\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a little \u003cem>Wages of Fear\u003c/em>, and all in all, the most exhilarating and devastating two hours I experienced in a theater this year. \u003cem>Sirāt\u003c/em> also features the year's best original score, composed by the electronic musician Kangding Ray.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/26/nx-s1-5552313/one-battle-after-another-review-leonardo-dicaprio\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>One Battle After Another\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/03/15/174223752/paul-thomas-anderson-the-man-behind-the-master\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Thomas Anderson\u003c/a>'s much-loved, much-debated reimagining of Thomas Pynchon's novel \u003cem>Vineland\u003c/em> is an exuberant mash-up of action-thriller and political satire. \u003cem>One Battle After Another\u003c/em> stars Leonardo DiCaprio in one of his best and funniest performances as an aging revolutionary drawn back into the field. He leads an ensemble that includes Teyana Taylor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5425327/benicio-del-toro-the-phoenician-scheme\" target=\"_blank\">Benicio del Toro\u003c/a>, Sean Penn, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120531821/regina-hall-is-our-savior-in-honk-for-jesus-save-your-soul\" target=\"_blank\">Regina Hall\u003c/a> and the terrific discovery, Chase Infiniti. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/15/nx-s1-5398044/caught-by-the-tides-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Caught by the Tides\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>Caught by the Tides\u003c/em> is an unclassifiable hybrid of fiction and nonfiction from the Chinese director \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2008/12/09/98011679/jia-zhangke-capturing-chinas-transformation\" target=\"_blank\">Jia Zhangke\u003c/a>. Drawn from a mix of archival footage and newly shot material, it's a one-of-a-kind portrait of the myriad transformations that China has gone through over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>4. Resurrection\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>Resurrection\u003c/em>, another structurally bold Chinese title, is a bit like an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/16/1143105464/avatar-way-of-water-sequel-review-james-cameron\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Avatar \u003c/em>movie\u003c/a>\u003cem> \u003c/em>for film buffs. Placing us in the head of a shapeshifting protagonist, the director, Bi Gan, takes us on a gorgeous, dreamlike odyssey through various cinema genres, from historical spy drama to vampire thriller.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/28/nx-s1-5621004/my-undesirable-friends-review-russia\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>My No. 5 movie is the year's best documentary: \u003cem>My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow\u003c/em>, from the director Julia Loktev\u003cem>. \u003c/em>It's a sprawling yet intimate portrait of several Russian independent journalists in the harrowing months leading up to President Vladimir Putin's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/23/1082510234/russia-ukraine-updates\" target=\"_blank\">invasion of Ukraine\u003c/a> in 2022. As a portrait of anti-authoritarian resistance, it pairs nicely with my No. 6 movie. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/12/05/nx-s1-5633210/the-secret-agent-review-brazil\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Secret Agent\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>The Secret Agent\u003c/em> is an emotionally rich, sneakily funny and continually surprising drama from the director Kleber Mendonça Filho. Set in 1977, it lays bare the personal cost of dissidence during \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/g-s1-55614/brazil-apologizes-to-families-of-victims-of-military-dictatorships-mass-grave\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil's military dictatorship\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. \u003cem>Sound of Falling\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Although not a horror film, exactly, this German drama qualifies as the best and spookiest haunted-house movie I've seen this year. Directed by Mascha Schilinski, \u003cem>Sound of Falling\u003c/em> teases out the connections among four generations of girls and young women who have passed through the same remote farmhouse.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. April\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>April\u003c/em>, from the director \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5112391/april-movie-dea-kulumbegashvili-georgia-abortion\" target=\"_blank\">Dea Kulumbegashvili\u003c/a>, is a tough, bleak, but utterly hypnotic portrait of a skilled OB-GYN trying to provide health care for women in a conservative East Georgian village. It may be set far from the U.S., but the difficulties these women face would resonate in any setting.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5307290/on-becoming-a-guinea-fowl-movie-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>On Becoming a Guinea Fowl\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Directed by Rungano Nyoni, this Zambian film is a subtly mesmerizing drama about a death that takes place in a middle-class household, setting off a chain of dark revelations that threaten to tear a family apart.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5582378/it-was-just-an-accident-jafar-panahi-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>It Was Just an Accident\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>It Was Just an Accident, \u003c/em>which won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, is a shattering moral thriller from the Iranian director \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/18/nx-s1-5445181/iranian-filmmaker-jafar-panahi-discusses-his-new-thriller-it-was-just-an-accident\" target=\"_blank\">Jafar Panahi\u003c/a>. It centers on a group of former political prisoners who are given a rare chance at retribution. In the past, Panahi has been a prisoner in Iran himself, and earlier this month, the government sentenced the director in absentia to a year in prison. I hope that Panahi never sees the inside of a jail cell again, and that his movie is seen as far and wide as possible. \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Anyone will tell you that these are tumultuous, borderline-apocalyptic times for the film industry. Box office is down. The threat of AI looms. Billionaires and tech giants are laying waste to what remains of the major Hollywood studios. I'm not entirely sure how to square all this bad news with my own good news, which is that I saw more terrific new movies this year than I have any year since before the pandemic. True, most of those movies weren't from here, but all of them played in U.S. theaters in 2025, and all of them are well worth seeking out in the weeks and months to come.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/14/nx-s1-5608107/sirat-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Sirāt\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The best new movie I saw this year is a breakthrough work from a gifted Spanish filmmaker named Oliver Laxe. It's a nail-biting survival thriller, set in the desert of southern Morocco during what feels like the end-times. It's a little \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/02/08/465989808/mad-max-director-george-miller-the-audience-tells-you-what-your-film-is\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Mad Max\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a little \u003cem>Wages of Fear\u003c/em>, and all in all, the most exhilarating and devastating two hours I experienced in a theater this year. \u003cem>Sirāt\u003c/em> also features the year's best original score, composed by the electronic musician Kangding Ray.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/09/26/nx-s1-5552313/one-battle-after-another-review-leonardo-dicaprio\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>One Battle After Another\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/03/15/174223752/paul-thomas-anderson-the-man-behind-the-master\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Thomas Anderson\u003c/a>'s much-loved, much-debated reimagining of Thomas Pynchon's novel \u003cem>Vineland\u003c/em> is an exuberant mash-up of action-thriller and political satire. \u003cem>One Battle After Another\u003c/em> stars Leonardo DiCaprio in one of his best and funniest performances as an aging revolutionary drawn back into the field. He leads an ensemble that includes Teyana Taylor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5425327/benicio-del-toro-the-phoenician-scheme\" target=\"_blank\">Benicio del Toro\u003c/a>, Sean Penn, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120531821/regina-hall-is-our-savior-in-honk-for-jesus-save-your-soul\" target=\"_blank\">Regina Hall\u003c/a> and the terrific discovery, Chase Infiniti. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/15/nx-s1-5398044/caught-by-the-tides-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Caught by the Tides\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>Caught by the Tides\u003c/em> is an unclassifiable hybrid of fiction and nonfiction from the Chinese director \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2008/12/09/98011679/jia-zhangke-capturing-chinas-transformation\" target=\"_blank\">Jia Zhangke\u003c/a>. Drawn from a mix of archival footage and newly shot material, it's a one-of-a-kind portrait of the myriad transformations that China has gone through over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>4. Resurrection\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>Resurrection\u003c/em>, another structurally bold Chinese title, is a bit like an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/16/1143105464/avatar-way-of-water-sequel-review-james-cameron\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Avatar \u003c/em>movie\u003c/a>\u003cem> \u003c/em>for film buffs. Placing us in the head of a shapeshifting protagonist, the director, Bi Gan, takes us on a gorgeous, dreamlike odyssey through various cinema genres, from historical spy drama to vampire thriller.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/28/nx-s1-5621004/my-undesirable-friends-review-russia\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>My No. 5 movie is the year's best documentary: \u003cem>My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow\u003c/em>, from the director Julia Loktev\u003cem>. \u003c/em>It's a sprawling yet intimate portrait of several Russian independent journalists in the harrowing months leading up to President Vladimir Putin's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/23/1082510234/russia-ukraine-updates\" target=\"_blank\">invasion of Ukraine\u003c/a> in 2022. As a portrait of anti-authoritarian resistance, it pairs nicely with my No. 6 movie. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/12/05/nx-s1-5633210/the-secret-agent-review-brazil\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Secret Agent\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>The Secret Agent\u003c/em> is an emotionally rich, sneakily funny and continually surprising drama from the director Kleber Mendonça Filho. Set in 1977, it lays bare the personal cost of dissidence during \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/g-s1-55614/brazil-apologizes-to-families-of-victims-of-military-dictatorships-mass-grave\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil's military dictatorship\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. \u003cem>Sound of Falling\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Although not a horror film, exactly, this German drama qualifies as the best and spookiest haunted-house movie I've seen this year. Directed by Mascha Schilinski, \u003cem>Sound of Falling\u003c/em> teases out the connections among four generations of girls and young women who have passed through the same remote farmhouse.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. April\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>April\u003c/em>, from the director \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5112391/april-movie-dea-kulumbegashvili-georgia-abortion\" target=\"_blank\">Dea Kulumbegashvili\u003c/a>, is a tough, bleak, but utterly hypnotic portrait of a skilled OB-GYN trying to provide health care for women in a conservative East Georgian village. It may be set far from the U.S., but the difficulties these women face would resonate in any setting.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5307290/on-becoming-a-guinea-fowl-movie-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>On Becoming a Guinea Fowl\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Directed by Rungano Nyoni, this Zambian film is a subtly mesmerizing drama about a death that takes place in a middle-class household, setting off a chain of dark revelations that threaten to tear a family apart.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10. \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5582378/it-was-just-an-accident-jafar-panahi-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>It Was Just an Accident\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>It Was Just an Accident, \u003c/em>which won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, is a shattering moral thriller from the Iranian director \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/10/18/nx-s1-5445181/iranian-filmmaker-jafar-panahi-discusses-his-new-thriller-it-was-just-an-accident\" target=\"_blank\">Jafar Panahi\u003c/a>. It centers on a group of former political prisoners who are given a rare chance at retribution. In the past, Panahi has been a prisoner in Iran himself, and earlier this month, the government sentenced the director in absentia to a year in prison. I hope that Panahi never sees the inside of a jail cell again, and that his movie is seen as far and wide as possible. \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Rhea Seehorn says she's on \"Team Carol.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>In the Apple TV series \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-5597877/pluribus-apple-tv-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Pluribus\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, actor Rhea Seehorn stars as Carol, a bestselling romance author who suddenly finds herself living in a world where everyone around her is bound together by a \"psychic glue.\" They share memories and knowledge and they are happy and peaceful. The only problem: Carol's not interested in joining them — especially if it means losing her own sense of self.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"I would absolutely be Team Carol as far as arguing the necessity and the positives of individual thinking,\" Seehorn says. If the world were taken over by group think, she explains, \"There's never going to be a joke that you haven't heard. There's never going to be a surprise behavior that makes you laugh. And that's just such a source of joy for me that I just can't imagine that contentment is the same as happiness.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Seehorn previously played Kim Wexler in AMC's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/11/1110808669/better-call-saul-breaking-bad-bob-odenkirk-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Better Call Saul\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>co-created by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2010/03/09/124475421/vince-gilligan-the-man-behind-breaking-bad\" target=\"_blank\">Vince Gilligan\u003c/a>. He is also the creator of \u003cem>Pluribus. \u003c/em>Seehorn says Carol's character was originally imagined as a male protagonist, but was rewritten for her to take the starring role. Gilligan \"wanted to play with tone and take wild swings as far as [the series] could be darkly comedic, or it could be darkly psychological ... and he was impressed at my ability to do those things,\" Seehorn says. \"I'm certainly very thankful for it.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003chr />\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Interview highlights\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On playing angry characters in \u003cem>Pluribus\u003c/em> and in \u003cem>Better Call Saul\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>There's this idea [that] anger can be a miasma almost, that can spread. And we've all seen horrible things can happen when you just are riling people up. ... But at the same time, it is a necessary emotion, which, I think, is one of the arguments in the show that I side with — the idea that all of the emotions are important, not just happiness. …\u003c/p>\u003cp>Because I'm a woman playing the role … it felt as though I was taught that anger was unpalatable, specifically from females, and that I should find a way to make it palatable. … When I was much younger, I would scream. As a teenager, you know, screaming, yelling, like the typical arguments you have over hairspray and idiotic things as a teenager. … My parents were divorced, and so it was a household of three women, my mom, and my sister and I. … But, you know, you kind of grow out of this. …\u003c/p>\u003cp>I don't think it's OK to scream and yell in someone's face, but I think I have become conflict avoidant in the suppression of that anger to a degree that's not healthy. I will stand up for somebody else, though, in a heartbeat. If somebody else is being mistreated next to me, I'm in there. I'll take you to the mat. But if it's at me, I tend to swallow it and try to figure out how I can make it better.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how she prepared to play the role of a romance novelist\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>I went to The Ripped Bodice, which is an amazing romance novel store. ... And I just slipped in and looked around. And I have to tell you, one of the first things that struck me is the amount of sub-genres and the specificity of these sub-genres. … I watched a couple of people do readings from their books, and I was really surprised at the breadth of people, of fans, listening. There was a lot of people dressed like early Stevie Nicks, in a beautiful way. But then there was also … [a] couple that looked like they came straight from a corporate job. … People younger than me, people older than me. It definitely widened me to how huge this genre is and how much it encapsulates all the different novels it has.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On changing her name from Deborah, which was her first name, to Rhea, which was her middle name\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>I got a little chunky in puberty, and kids started yelling at me, \"Hey, fat Debbie, do you want some more Little Debbie's?\" (which are snack cakes.) … I was just like … I just need a fresh start. And I think I identify more with my middle name. And weirdly, there was no issue with kids that had known me forever. Everybody just sort of was like, \"Yeah, that makes sense.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On her father being a counterintelligence agent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>I knew he was investigating things and I knew that they were secretive, but I didn't have a lot more details than that. And I am loathe to say that my head was too far up my butt as a teenager to actually be interested in what my parents actually do. And then he died when I was 18, so I didn't get to ask a lot of the questions that I wish I had asked. …\u003c/p>\u003cp>My Dad's favorite answer to everything was, \"What are you, writing a book?\" If you even just said, like, \"Where are you going?\" … And I thought I was so brilliant when I was 15 that I finally had a comeback. And I said, \"Yeah, I am.\" And he said, \"Well, then leave this chapter out.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On her father's drinking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Apparently he was a heavy drinker for most of his adult life, but it just didn't get labeled as alcoholism, you know? And my dad was the life of the party and very, very smart, very, very funny, with a super dry wit. … The idea that he was in the Tet Offensive and, as far as I know, never talked to anybody about it, and that you would have a life built of a lot of secrets. … I don't remember him ever saying that he had anybody to talk to about it. So I just bring that up because I think self-medicating was going on for quite a while before it physically became a full-blown issue and then full-blown disease.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how she became an actor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>I was obsessed with television, film, and as a kid in the suburbs in Virginia, I'd never known anybody that had even the loosest association with the entertainment business and thought it was just an impossible dream. And then, in my first year at George Mason University, you had to take an elective in the arts that was not your major, and my major was fine arts. And so I took an acting class. … It was not an emotional, ooey-gooey class — I took plenty of those later — but this was a hardcore, do-your-homework, script-analysis class using practical aesthetics that was developed out of the Atlantic Theater. And I just was in love with the fact that if you work really hard and study, you can incrementally get closer and closer to being good at this and hopefully one day great at this. …\u003c/p>\u003cp>And then I started going to D.C. theater, which I think is some of the world's best theater … and [I] was just like: Immediately, I have to do this for my life. I don't know how many day jobs I'm going to have to have. It was not about being famous. I knew that I had to be an actor and I'd support myself, however I had to.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>Lauren Krenzel and Nico Wisler produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz and Beth Novey adapted it for the web.\u003c/em> \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rhea Seehorn says she's on \"Team Carol.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>In the Apple TV series \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-5597877/pluribus-apple-tv-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Pluribus\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, actor Rhea Seehorn stars as Carol, a bestselling romance author who suddenly finds herself living in a world where everyone around her is bound together by a \"psychic glue.\" They share memories and knowledge and they are happy and peaceful. The only problem: Carol's not interested in joining them — especially if it means losing her own sense of self.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"I would absolutely be Team Carol as far as arguing the necessity and the positives of individual thinking,\" Seehorn says. If the world were taken over by group think, she explains, \"There's never going to be a joke that you haven't heard. There's never going to be a surprise behavior that makes you laugh. And that's just such a source of joy for me that I just can't imagine that contentment is the same as happiness.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>Seehorn previously played Kim Wexler in AMC's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/11/1110808669/better-call-saul-breaking-bad-bob-odenkirk-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Better Call Saul\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>co-created by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2010/03/09/124475421/vince-gilligan-the-man-behind-breaking-bad\" target=\"_blank\">Vince Gilligan\u003c/a>. He is also the creator of \u003cem>Pluribus. \u003c/em>Seehorn says Carol's character was originally imagined as a male protagonist, but was rewritten for her to take the starring role. Gilligan \"wanted to play with tone and take wild swings as far as [the series] could be darkly comedic, or it could be darkly psychological ... and he was impressed at my ability to do those things,\" Seehorn says. \"I'm certainly very thankful for it.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003chr />\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>Interview highlights\u003c/h3>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On playing angry characters in \u003cem>Pluribus\u003c/em> and in \u003cem>Better Call Saul\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>There's this idea [that] anger can be a miasma almost, that can spread. And we've all seen horrible things can happen when you just are riling people up. ... But at the same time, it is a necessary emotion, which, I think, is one of the arguments in the show that I side with — the idea that all of the emotions are important, not just happiness. …\u003c/p>\u003cp>Because I'm a woman playing the role … it felt as though I was taught that anger was unpalatable, specifically from females, and that I should find a way to make it palatable. … When I was much younger, I would scream. As a teenager, you know, screaming, yelling, like the typical arguments you have over hairspray and idiotic things as a teenager. … My parents were divorced, and so it was a household of three women, my mom, and my sister and I. … But, you know, you kind of grow out of this. …\u003c/p>\u003cp>I don't think it's OK to scream and yell in someone's face, but I think I have become conflict avoidant in the suppression of that anger to a degree that's not healthy. I will stand up for somebody else, though, in a heartbeat. If somebody else is being mistreated next to me, I'm in there. I'll take you to the mat. But if it's at me, I tend to swallow it and try to figure out how I can make it better.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how she prepared to play the role of a romance novelist\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>I went to The Ripped Bodice, which is an amazing romance novel store. ... And I just slipped in and looked around. And I have to tell you, one of the first things that struck me is the amount of sub-genres and the specificity of these sub-genres. … I watched a couple of people do readings from their books, and I was really surprised at the breadth of people, of fans, listening. There was a lot of people dressed like early Stevie Nicks, in a beautiful way. But then there was also … [a] couple that looked like they came straight from a corporate job. … People younger than me, people older than me. It definitely widened me to how huge this genre is and how much it encapsulates all the different novels it has.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On changing her name from Deborah, which was her first name, to Rhea, which was her middle name\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>I got a little chunky in puberty, and kids started yelling at me, \"Hey, fat Debbie, do you want some more Little Debbie's?\" (which are snack cakes.) … I was just like … I just need a fresh start. And I think I identify more with my middle name. And weirdly, there was no issue with kids that had known me forever. Everybody just sort of was like, \"Yeah, that makes sense.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On her father being a counterintelligence agent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>I knew he was investigating things and I knew that they were secretive, but I didn't have a lot more details than that. And I am loathe to say that my head was too far up my butt as a teenager to actually be interested in what my parents actually do. And then he died when I was 18, so I didn't get to ask a lot of the questions that I wish I had asked. …\u003c/p>\u003cp>My Dad's favorite answer to everything was, \"What are you, writing a book?\" If you even just said, like, \"Where are you going?\" … And I thought I was so brilliant when I was 15 that I finally had a comeback. And I said, \"Yeah, I am.\" And he said, \"Well, then leave this chapter out.\"\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On her father's drinking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Apparently he was a heavy drinker for most of his adult life, but it just didn't get labeled as alcoholism, you know? And my dad was the life of the party and very, very smart, very, very funny, with a super dry wit. … The idea that he was in the Tet Offensive and, as far as I know, never talked to anybody about it, and that you would have a life built of a lot of secrets. … I don't remember him ever saying that he had anybody to talk to about it. So I just bring that up because I think self-medicating was going on for quite a while before it physically became a full-blown issue and then full-blown disease.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how she became an actor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>I was obsessed with television, film, and as a kid in the suburbs in Virginia, I'd never known anybody that had even the loosest association with the entertainment business and thought it was just an impossible dream. And then, in my first year at George Mason University, you had to take an elective in the arts that was not your major, and my major was fine arts. And so I took an acting class. … It was not an emotional, ooey-gooey class — I took plenty of those later — but this was a hardcore, do-your-homework, script-analysis class using practical aesthetics that was developed out of the Atlantic Theater. And I just was in love with the fact that if you work really hard and study, you can incrementally get closer and closer to being good at this and hopefully one day great at this. …\u003c/p>\u003cp>And then I started going to D.C. theater, which I think is some of the world's best theater … and [I] was just like: Immediately, I have to do this for my life. I don't know how many day jobs I'm going to have to have. It was not about being famous. I knew that I had to be an actor and I'd support myself, however I had to.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cem>Lauren Krenzel and Nico Wisler produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz and Beth Novey adapted it for the web.\u003c/em> \u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 NPR\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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