American Fiction
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Oct 7, 2026
Vincent WilliamsHOST
Yeah
Len WebbHOST
... you know, then or, or d- even American Fiction, the, the film that we both-
Vincent WilliamsHOST
Mm-hmm
Len WebbHOST
...
Richard OsmanHOST
Yeah.
Marina HydeHOST
But y- you saw, um, when American Fiction, um, won at, uh, the Oscars, Paul Jefferson stood up and said, "Why don't we make lots of movies for $20 million?" [laughs]
Richard OsmanHOST
And now it's, "Why don't we make 200, uh-
Marina HydeHOST
Yeah
Shawna ReneeHOST
Okay.
SamPANELIST
Um, and it has, uh, the woman who was in, uh, American Fiction.
SamPANELIST
She played the girlfriend.
Shawna ReneeHOST
Okay.
Shawna ReneeHOST
Seriously.
Shawna ReneeHOST
Now, this is funny.
Shawna ReneeHOST
So you're talking about, uh- Erica Alexander, and your point of reference for Erica Alexander is American fiction.
Shawna ReneeHOST
Now, Eric, Al, Erica-
speaker_1HOST
These are films that talk back to their sources, to their audiences, and to the Hollywood machinery itself.
speaker_0HOST
And the absolute sharpest, funniest example of this from the entire decade is Cord Jefferson's 2023 film American Fiction based on Percival Everett's novel Erasure.
speaker_1HOST
It is a brilliant comedy about the commodification of identity.
speaker_0HOST
The premise alone is incredible.
speaker_0HOST
The joke lands perfectly for the audience sitting in the theater because we are literally watching a Hollywood adaptation of a book about a cynical Hollywood adaptation.
speaker_0HOST
It holds a mirror right up to the executives who green lit the movie in the first place.
speaker_1HOST
Now, if American Fiction is a satire of the industry, Yorgos Lanthimos' 2023 film Poor Things is a satire of society, philosophy, and the human body itself.
speaker_0HOST
Adapted by Tony McNamara from Alasdair Gray's 1992 novel, and the original book is wild.
Josh SilverGUEST
So that those combined, I was like, I'm tapping out of this profession.
Josh SilverGUEST
And I went and like, uh, yeah went and um retrained as a nurse and sort of like got myself out of that because it just all felt I don't know I was still figuring out who I was and then when I started nursing which I really enjoyed suited me a very busy job and I loved that and then I started writing and I wrote some young adult books just because those were the stories that came to me, but I'd always thought about, and I'd read Yellowface, which is obviously very inspirational to me, by Eric Lank, and Erasure by Percival Everett, and then I watched American Fiction, which is the film version of it, and I was just like, this shit continues, this continues, and it's still going, and it happens in my community, and there are...
Josh SilverGUEST
many versions of this.
Josh SilverGUEST
And the story should keep being told.
Brian WishartHOST
Um,
Andrew Joe PotterGUEST
has, has an international language film won the people's choice in recent years? Like I, I, I'm thinking back like, so last year, Hamnet, the year before Life of Chuck, American Fiction, Fableman's, Belfast, No Bad Land, Jojo Rabbit, Green Book.
Andrew Joe PotterGUEST
We're starting to see, uh, some of these are a little, a little divisive in retrospect, Three Billboards, La La Land, Room.
Andrew Joe PotterGUEST
Like, I don't, like I'm, we're over 10 years back now and, uh, Okay, so 2011, we have Where Do We Go Now, which is a Lebanese film.
Nate MarshallHOST
People are still copying this book.
Luke ToumaHOST
You ever see American Fiction? No.
Luke ToumaHOST
Oh, it's great.
Luke ToumaHOST
It's great.
Luke ToumaHOST
American Fiction? No, no.
Luke ToumaHOST
It's about Jeffrey Reds' black dude, and he's like a great author.
Luke ToumaHOST
Oh.
RichHOST
P.S., I'd also make him...
RichHOST
He was gay in American Fiction, too.
RichHOST
Gay menace.
RichHOST
Who? I don't know if y'all saw Sterling K.
RichHOST
Brown's character in American Fiction.
RichHOST
He was the youngest brother.
RichHOST
He was gay.
Spike LouHOST
I ain't never seen American Fiction.
KelseyHOST
And so it's interesting.
KelseyHOST
I was thinking about this movie in, in light of like American Fiction also.
MaddieHOST
Mm-hmm.
KelseyHOST
Not the concept of American fiction, the movie American Fiction.
KelseyHOST
[laughs]
MaddieHOST
The movie, the film American Fiction, yes.
KelseyHOST
And the zone of interest of like I can see why this popped off, right? 'Cause you, not you, I'm not talking about you specifically.
MaddieHOST
Me? [laughs]
RohanHOST
Good to see a bit of energy into you, eh? 2024.
RohanHOST
2024, the winner of Best Picture, Robert, was The Zone of Interest, Poor Things, Past Life, Maestro, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Holdovers with Ollie, Barbie, Anatomy of a Fool, American Fiction, Oppenheimer.
RobHOST
Oppenheimer.
RobHOST
Oppenheimer.
RohanHOST
same three questions and then I take you on a journey.
RohanHOST
I don't interrupt you.
RohanHOST
Best actor winner in 2024 was Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction, Paul Giamatti, my favourite, The Holdovers, Coleman D'Amico in Ruston, Bradley Cooper for Maestro or Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer.
RohanHOST
Oppenheimer.
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