The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
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Sep 11, 2026
EmmaHOST
Wes Anderson did an adaptation of a bunch of four Roald Dahl short stories.
EmmaHOST
I'm pretty sure the collection is called The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, maybe.
EmmaHOST
And that's one of the ones that he did.
EmmaHOST
And I love that one.
Ryan McQuadeHOST
I think that he's...
Ryan McQuadeHOST
I think he was really great in the Henry Sugar shorts with Wes Anderson.
Ryan McQuadeHOST
I actually think he works really well with Wes Anderson.
Sophia CiminelloGUEST
Confessions, too.
Whitney Crothers DilleyGUEST
So he made two adaptations of Roald Dahl's work.
Whitney Crothers DilleyGUEST
And it was especially exciting that in 2024, he won the Academy Award for directing Roald Dahl's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.
Whitney Crothers DilleyGUEST
And he won in the category of Best Live Action Short.
Whitney Crothers DilleyGUEST
So he also really treasured his copy of Fantastic Mr.
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Whitney Crothers DilleyGUEST
And I'd really like to talk about, if I may, the origin story of this friendship because it's so key to what happened in Rushmore.
Whitney Crothers DilleyGUEST
So, okay, let's go back.
Whitney Crothers DilleyGUEST
So in March of 2024, Anderson won his first Oscar for the wonderful story of Henry Sugar, and he made an acceptance speech.
Whitney Crothers DilleyGUEST
And in the speech was tucked this line.
Mark TilleyGUEST
like his movie after asteroid city should have been like a rupert friend like was it was The Phoenician scheme?
ColeHOST
No, it was fucking Henry Sugar.
ColeHOST
It's like the Rupert – it's him fucking handing Rupert Friend like the starring role and Netflix fucked the distribution.
ConnorHOST
They fucked it up,
speaker_1HOST
Oh, absolutely.
speaker_0HOST
We got The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, which actually won an Oscar, and then three more, The Swan, Poison, and The Rat Catcher.
speaker_1HOST
And from a purely cinematic perspective, these are stunning achievements.
speaker_1HOST
Anderson utilized this incredible stage and studio aesthetic.
Adam RitchieHOST
I do need to track it d- I need to track the book down and reread that actually, 'cause I, I do have a, I've got a couple of big volumes of Roald Dahl, his short stories, because I got those when, uh, Wes Anderson's shorts came out on Netflix a couple years ago now I think.
Adam RitchieHOST
Henry Sugar and...
Adam RitchieHOST
Yeah.
Adam RitchieHOST
And oh man, Roald Dahl just, I don't know, he was just very engaging, warm and cozy to read his stuff.
speaker_3HOST
Let's start with number three.
speaker_3HOST
Holding an impressive IMDb score of 7.4, it is his 2023 live action short film, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.
speaker_5HOST
This is a fascinating data point because it is an anomaly.
speaker_3HOST
Because it's so short.
speaker_5HOST
It's only about 40 minutes long, but it made a massive cultural impact, even winning the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short.
speaker_3HOST
It's fantastic.
speaker_5HOST
It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Henry Sugar, who is a wealthy, idle, deeply bored gambler.
speaker_5HOST
He discovers an old medical report about a yogi in India, played by Ben Kingsley, who has supposedly trained his mind to see without using his eyes.
MaggieHOST
Yeah, the wonderful story.
MaggieHOST
The wonderful story of Henry Sugar.
MaggieHOST
And then there's a couple other ones.
MaggieHOST
There's a couple others.
CavemanHOST
This movie is 25 years old.
MaggieHOST
But these days, sometimes, yeah, whimsy is me.
CavemanHOST
You know, Wes Anderson got his first and only Oscar so far from The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar for Best Short Film.
CavemanHOST
He has been nominated another seven times for writing, producing, and directing his films.
Jason SotoHOST
Mm
Paul HawkinsGUEST
... and also The, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, like the Netflix thing-
Jason SotoHOST
Yeah, yeah
Paul HawkinsGUEST
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