Bombshell

I really leaned into the beginning stages of where we are now.

How can we talk about these controversies? How can we continue to highlight, uh, this predatory behavior to prevent this from happening in the future? And I went with a movie that's sole purpose in existing was to capture those events that were real events, and it was the 2019 film Bombshell by Jay Roach.

Oh, yeah.

Um, this is the, uh, Fox News, uh, controversy from Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch of the multiple women he was predatory towards, uh, and anchors, and the expectations that the women anchors had, um, in order to appease Roger Ailes.

Right.

Um, and I'm not sure it's even a great movie, but it is exposing these things.

And granted, Stage Door is more of a fictional interpretation, whereas Bombshell is, are very real events, very real people.

Mm-hmm.

ridiculous Let's see what Lithgow's been up to.

So in 2019, he did Late Night, The Tomorrow Man, Pet Cemetery, and Bombshell.

He's recently done Daddy's Home 2, Pitch Perfect 3, Beatriz at Dinner.

So yeah, I think he's got time to make Cliffhanger.

So which is it?

They made a movie about it called Bombshell where Charlize Theron played her, which is such a, like slap in the face to, like Charlize Theron.

Oh, yeah.

She didn't know.

Like, that's crazy.

I feel like, is she not, um, depicted in Bombshell, the movie?

Oh my God, I don't know.

Potentially.

The prosthetic makeup designer who is Kazuhiro, his credits include transforming Gary Oldman, of course, into Winston Churchill for The Darkest Hour.

I mean, Charlize Theron's transformation in Bombshell, another opportunity of just absolutely nailing it.

I do think that the styling of Tom Cruise is at its best to do what it's doing.

I mean, Tom has some really extreme close-ups where we get to see his face.

I'm gonna shout out the makeup by Kazu Hiro.

He won the Oscar for Bombshell for convincingly transforming Charlize Theron into Megyn Kelly for that film.

But he has studied under the greats Bill Corso, Rick Baker.

They are special effects pioneers, basically.

Um, and I think just seeing how I felt like as a society we all kinda decided, "Hey, this isn't okay.

We're going to, like, stop this widespread sexual assault and sexual harassment." Like, I don't know if you remember that movie Bombshell, but it was based on Megyn Kelly and the other Fox News women going after Roger Ailes for all the sexual harassment that was happening within Fox News.

Mm.

So, like, even con- It just felt like women from all sides of the political spectrum were coming together to recognize, like, "Hey, this is a huge problem, and we're not gonna take it anymore." And then, you know, obviously that was...

Yeah, I just watched The Hours today, and I was going between that and The Others when I made that selection, so it could have gone either way, I think.

I actually like Bombshell, which I thought Nicole Kidman was good in.

Ethan, I didn't know if you were going to play Killing of a Sacred Deer or not.

Yeah,

Didn't make the list.

We talked about, we got Practical Magic on the list.

We talked about Bombshell, Killing of a Sacred Deer.

The Northman was really the only other thing that I considered I did have Margot at the wedding on my short list, but that was never, never going to make the list.