Zach Baron
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Sep 24, 2026
NickHOST
You also said no to some of the stuff they were trying to do.
NickHOST
In an interview with Zach Baron at GQ, when asked about why it never happened, he said, quote, that's a Kevin Feige question.
NickHOST
They had, as you said, a two-time Oscar-winning actor under contract, and you got billions of dollars.
NickHOST
To this day, I don't know why it didn't happen.
Rob HarvillaHOST
That's a, that's a callback to a previous episode.
Rob HarvillaHOST
That's a Zach Baron quote, actually.
Yasi SalekGUEST
Oh.
Rob HarvillaHOST
That is the last question from a Zach Baron interview conducted in The Village Voice-
Yasi SalekGUEST
Am I now on a-
Rob HarvillaHOST
...
Rob HarvillaHOST
No, you are on, you are now, there were only two documents to prevent exactly that occurrence.
Rob HarvillaHOST
You are now in the correct document, and that's-
Zach BaronHOST
Trust me.
Zach BaronHOST
Hi, I'm Zach Baron, and this is One More Question.
Zach BaronHOST
My guest this week is the actor and two-time Oscar winner, Mahershala Ali.
Zach BaronHOST
This was a meaningful one for me.
Mahershala AliGUEST
me.
Zach BaronHOST
Hi, I'm Zach Baron, and this is One More Question.
Zach BaronHOST
My guest this week is the actor and two-time Oscar winner, Mahershala Ali.
Zach BaronHOST
This was a meaningful one for me.
Zach BaronHOST
Trust me.
Zach BaronHOST
Hi, I'm Zach Baron, and this is One More Question.
Zach BaronHOST
My guest this week is the actor and two-time Oscar winner, Mahershala Ali.
Zach BaronHOST
This was a meaningful one for me.
Richard OsmanHOST
Every, he gets asked a series of questions in this.
Richard OsmanHOST
Uh, the journalist who's interviewing, Zach Baron, does a great job.
Richard OsmanHOST
So he, you know, you see the questions as well.
Richard OsmanHOST
And I thought the questions were genuinely interesting.
Marina HydeHOST
So it, it, to me it feels like this is a moment of great artifice.
Marina HydeHOST
We know that there must have been so pre- many preconditions.
Marina HydeHOST
You're right, the questions are clever, but I think as a journalist, you've been told all the things you can't ask.
Richard OsmanHOST
Mm.
Zara McDonaldHOST
Now, when it comes to my algorithm, my algorithm started with one clip.
Zara McDonaldHOST
It started [laughs] with a clip from GQ with the caption, "Tom Cruise rarely speaks at length to journalists.
Zara McDonaldHOST
He hasn't sat down for a cover interview with a US publication in more than a decade."
Michelle AndrewsHOST
Wow.
Lauren ShermanHOST
So, walk us through the process as much as you can.
Lauren ShermanHOST
Why did you decide on him? How did you convince them to say yes? What were the sort of boundaries? I should also say, I mean, anyone who listens to this podcast who has a parasocial relationship with me or Amanda Dobbins knows that the writer of the profile and Q&A is Zach Baron, who is Amanda Dobbins' husband, and Amanda is one of my b- one of my best friends, and I'm also friends with Zach.
Lauren ShermanHOST
I think he would be okay with me saying that, and our kids are friends and all that stuff.
Lauren ShermanHOST
So, I am compromised [laughs] in many ways here.
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Adam BaidawiGUEST
We need to maintain the taste, and the cool, and all those things, but we have to be more appealing to more people.
Adam BaidawiGUEST
And third and finally, I felt strongly that GQ needs to have its strongest storytelling everywhere.
Adam BaidawiGUEST
You take Zach Baron, for example, like if you're a Zach Baron super fan, over the years the most you could have hoped for in an average year from Zach was to read maybe one or two big print cover stories, maybe get an ad hoc video here or there.
Adam BaidawiGUEST
But effectively you had one of your biggest and brightest talents kind of kept on the bench until he was required.
Bim AdewunmiHOST
Sit-down, in-depth interviews aren't really something he does regularly.
Bim AdewunmiHOST
But then GQ journalist Zach Baron scored one.
Bim AdewunmiHOST
They recorded the whole thing.
Bim AdewunmiHOST
Here's how it starts.
Brett DasovicHOST
Okay, let's move on.
Mary MorganHOST
So Zach Baron at GQ sat down with Tom Cruise for a half an hour, and the number one takeaway is that there are no takeaways because Tom Cruise came off as so incredibly guarded in this interview.
Mary MorganHOST
Every time he was asked anything approaching a personal question, he gave these answers that I don't even know how to summarize for you because they were so, like, bouncing all over the place and nonsensical.
Mary MorganHOST
He has a history of doing interviews that are not fondly remembered.
Mary MorganHOST
He will say to me more than once that movies and how they are made are what fascinate him, less than talking about myself." They say, "You're very outwardly directed." He says, "I am.
Mary MorganHOST
I say it.
Mary MorganHOST
I am." And there are a couple of moments where Zach Baron tries to press him to talk about something other than the movie making process, and more about Tom Cruise the man, and he resists it effortlessly every time.
Mary MorganHOST
So at one point, they talk about his dream to become an actor as a kid because he had a very troubled childhood.
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