Unsinkable: The Titanic Podcast
Aug 16, 2026 · 1 hr 47 min · 16 segments
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Do you wanna go first?
Yeah.
His name is Percy Hynes White, and let me tell you why I'm a literal fucking genius.
[laughs]
So [laughs] about a year ago, I guess a year and a half ago, on a plane I watched a film called My Old Ass, and it's a film completely produced by Aubrey Plaza, who people will know from Parks and Rec.
Um, but she's a genius comedian and she's done a lot of s- uh, serious roles as well too.
Um, the film is her playing an older version of a teenage self of hers, and through some weird, uh, magical realism, the older version and the younger version get to hang out together.
And in the process of that, you meet her, um, sort of childhood love, um, in her late teens, which is, um, Chad, played by Percy Hynes White.
I have never seen such a performance by someone so young, I think he was probably like 18 or 19 when he filmed this movie, where he just completely conveys this like lovesick but also like I'm an intelligent, functioning, wonderful person that you should get to know and I have n- I'm actually like not full of drama and I'm not gonna be your like typical like teenage love story, but like just pure, innocent, wonderful like Chad.
Like John watched the movie too, my husband, and so for weeks afterwards we were like, "Chad.
Oh my God, Chad." He's like the perfect manic pixie dream boy, but also like intelligent.
And then a few months later, I'm watching the Netflix show Wednesday with my kids, which is obviously the Jenna Ortega-led, uh, reboot of The Addams Family that's really massively popular, and he is in season one of that show also doing an incredible job at sort of a multifaceted character.
And I won't give anything away 'cause I know a lot of people haven't seen it yet that might watch it.
Do you wanna go first?
Yeah.
His name is Percy Hynes White, and let me tell you why I'm a literal fucking genius.
[laughs]
So [laughs] about a year ago, I guess a year and a half ago, on a plane I watched a film called My Old Ass, and it's a film completely produced by Aubrey Plaza, who people will know from Parks and Rec.
Um, but she's a genius comedian and she's done a lot of s- uh, serious roles as well too.
Um, the film is her playing an older version of a teenage self of hers, and through some weird, uh, magical realism, the older version and the younger version get to hang out together.
And in the process of that, you meet her, um, sort of childhood love, um, in her late teens, which is, um, Chad, played by Percy Hynes White.
I have never seen such a performance by someone so young, I think he was probably like 18 or 19 when he filmed this movie, where he just completely conveys this like lovesick but also like I'm an intelligent, functioning, wonderful person that you should get to know and I have n- I'm actually like not full of drama and I'm not gonna be your like typical like teenage love story, but like just pure, innocent, wonderful like Chad.
Like John watched the movie too, my husband, and so for weeks afterwards we were like, "Chad.
Oh my God, Chad." He's like the perfect manic pixie dream boy, but also like intelligent.
And then a few months later, I'm watching the Netflix show Wednesday with my kids, which is obviously the Jenna Ortega-led, uh, reboot of The Addams Family that's really massively popular, and he is in season one of that show also doing an incredible job at sort of a multifaceted character.
And I won't give anything away 'cause I know a lot of people haven't seen it yet that might watch it.
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