The Whale
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Oct 29, 2026
Sophia CiminelloHOST
It just, it is.
Ryan McQuadeHOST
It could be The Whale.
Erik AndersonPANELIST
Sure, but that was 11th, and it also had the fact that Elsinore needs to have, and Olivia Colman has to get in, too.
Sophia CiminelloHOST
Did you just say you'd rather watch The Whale?
Ryan McQuadeHOST
Yeah.
Sophia CiminelloHOST
Oh my god.
Sophie PriceHOST
I want to see.
Sophie PriceHOST
I want to see The Whale, where the guy gets...
Sophie PriceHOST
Oh, yeah.
Sophie PriceHOST
Swallowed by the sperm whale, I think.
JordanHOST
I mean, Sadie Sink has done a little bit.
JordanHOST
Who do you think right now? The Whale.
JordanHOST
The Whale.
JordanHOST
Oh, my God, that's right.
JordanHOST
She was in The Whale.
JordanHOST
Who gets the Oscar right now? If you said one of these gets the Oscar, Florence gets the Oscar.
EricHOST
Yeah, I think Florence, I think Sadie is going to get there.
Jason Di RossoHOST
It's a fairly nuanced one.
Jason Di RossoHOST
Meanwhile, opposite him, fresh from winning an Oscar for his role in The Whale, there's Brendan Fraser.
Jason Di RossoHOST
Surprisingly believable as the choice for Eisenhower, he really has outgrown his... boyish looks to be able to play a character who is haunted and commanding, like he is here on screen.
Jason Di RossoHOST
But mostly, as you'll hear, Pressure is really a fascinating story.
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Jason Di RossoHOST
There's a lot of sort of soul searching.
Jason Di RossoHOST
So it's a good performance.
Jason Di RossoHOST
Now you get him coming off the high of winning the Oscar for Best Actor in The Whale.
Jason Di RossoHOST
Yeah.
Scott McCartneyHOST
We did.
Scott McCartneyHOST
Because we didn't want to just talk about this film, we wanted to talk about all three of the original X-Men films.
Scott McCartneyHOST
And we created a weird loophole to say, well, this guy was in Frasier.
Paul BrownHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Scott McCartneyHOST
Yeah, all of the above work.
Scott McCartneyHOST
Now, this is a rarity in terms of our film reviews.
Scott McCartneyHOST
It only happens once or twice in the time we've been doing film reviews, because we go all the way in terms of films we've talked about.
Scott McCartneyHOST
But this is one of the rare times we're discussing a film that I saw in the cinemas.
Brian WishartHOST
Like how many
MaeveGUEST
people remember that The Whale was A24? Oh, right.
MaeveGUEST
The Whale.
MaeveGUEST
Oscar winning movie, The Whale.
MaeveGUEST
The Whale, which cost $3 million and made over $50 million.
MaeveGUEST
That's
Brian WishartHOST
crazy.
Brian WishartHOST
Yeah.
Lee StabertHOST
There was like something about the tenor and the pitch of it where I was just like, come on.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
Speaking of Darren Aronofsky movies that aren't for everyone, though, and how theater and film kind of bounce back and forth, a lot of people also don't know that one of his most recent movies, The Whale, was originally a play.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
And that's another one that a lot of people, I think, didn't like.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
And it's really interesting.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
I can go off on so many tangents about this stuff, so feel free to cut any of it as we go.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
But people didn't like The Whale, and I agree, because I saw The Whale at Speakeasy when it premiered in Boston in, I think, probably 2013.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
I might be wrong on the year.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
But the amazing thing about it is when you're put in space with this person, this person who is 500 pounds and you have to share that space, it is a deeply humanizing experience.
Jane WrightHOST
here.
Donovan DorranceHOST
Okay, so if you're unfamiliar with Darren Aronofsky, he has directed, from most recent to original, last year's Caught Stealing, 2022's The Whale with Brendan Fraser.
Jane WrightHOST
Mm-hmm.
Donovan DorranceHOST
2017's Mother, 2014's Noah, Black Swan, of course, 2010.
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Donovan DorranceHOST
I don't think
Jane WrightHOST
that's crazy.
Jane WrightHOST
I.e. the whale.
Donovan DorranceHOST
Exactly.
Josh PedersonHOST
You know, Moonlight, Hereditary, Ex Machina, the ones that Lady Bird, right, was pretty big.
Josh PedersonHOST
The Whale, right? Like that was a big one.
Josh PedersonHOST
And, you know, yeah, we have Back Rooms and I'm sure plenty of others.
Josh PedersonHOST
So, I mean, they're the ones that take the things that seem unmakeable and make them.
Josh PedersonHOST
Yeah, Moonlight, Hereditary, Ex Machina, the ones that Lady Bird, right, was pretty big.
Josh PedersonHOST
The Whale, right? Like that was a big one.
Josh PedersonHOST
And, you know, yeah, we have Back Rooms and I'm sure plenty of others.
Josh PedersonHOST
So, I mean, they're the ones that take the things that seem unmakable and make them.
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