Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Oscar host, Megan Fox, and Oh Happy Day At post time, the Academy has still not yet announced a replacement for Kevin Hart as the host of the Oscars. There are rumours that they may decide to go with no host for the Oscars. This is, apparently, not a job that anyone wants. Or is it that no By Lainey • Dec 12, 2018 12:14 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Work of Writing Part 1 Welcome to our first bonus mini-episode on writing – because we talk about writing so much, and we all write so much, and because there are so many different kinds of writing. But first…here’s our takeoff point: A couple of weeks ago, Laurie Kilmartin talked to Vulture about writing By Lainey • Dec 03, 2018 03:10 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: MBJ x FNL and … the problem of women’s pleasure On this week’s episode of Show Your Work, we begin with Michael B Jordan, the Movie Star. Hollywood doesn’t produce very many movie stars anymore. For the last few years, every time a movie star can’t open a movie, we start talking all over again about the By Lainey • Nov 28, 2018 11:27 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: the work of Taylor Swift, Julia Roberts, and Jennifer Aniston Taylor Swift’s big deal is our top story… But only after we get to Julia Roberts and goop. Julia was a guest on Gwyneth Paltrow’s podcast which was a revelation to me and then Duana had a revelation about her voice – which is what many of you have By Lainey • Nov 21, 2018 01:18 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Work of The Allusionist As promised, this season on Show Your Work, we’ll be highlighting the work of people we admire, people who are doing great work. It’s our honour to feature on this week’s new episode the work of Helen Zaltzman. Helen is the host of The Allusionist and Answer By Lainey • Nov 14, 2018 10:07 am
Royals Show Your Work: Harry and Meghan’s report card and how to pitch Prince Harry and Meghan Markle kicked off their first overseas tour when we recorded the first episode of this season of Show Your Work so we gave them a checklist. It’s time to grade their performance. Did they hit the specific targets that we set for them? And about By Lainey • Nov 06, 2018 11:14 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Megyn, Money, and Sex To be clear, which we repeat several times on this week’s episode of Show Your Work, Megyn Kelly’s blackface comments last week were gross and the fact that she claims she didn’t know is gross and all of it is gross. That said, Megyn Kelly’s time By Lainey • Oct 31, 2018 11:12 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Nicole Kidman’s feedback and professional breakups Thanks for all your responses last week to Season 3 of our Show Your Work podcast. For those of you who missed and who keep asking me about my Jake Gyllenhaal story from TIFF, check out the episode here. This week: What’s it like directing Nicole Kidman? You know By Lainey • Oct 24, 2018 01:28 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: royal babies, stars are born, and bad interviews We’re back! The first episode of Season 3 of the Show Your Work podcast is now available. And look – we have new artwork! We are so honoured to have a Paco May original in our likeness – thank you Paco! Paco’s been showing his work too. His illustrations were By Lainey • Oct 17, 2018 01:19 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: the Crazy Rich Asians edition As promised, here is our bonus episode of Show Your Work dedicated to Crazy Rich Asians. For almost two hours, Duana and I discuss the movie’s formula, its romantic comedy formula, its relationship to the romantic comedies we’re all so familiar with, and how it both honours the By Lainey • Aug 22, 2018 03:24 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Little Women & Guilty Pleasures We’re wrapping up Season 2 of the Show Your Work podcast with a classic and a casting update. How do you feel about Little Women? Are you like Duana and read it once a year? Do you watch the 1994 version starring Winona Ryder over and over again? It’ By Lainey • Jul 03, 2018 04:27 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Finding the Sexy…Amy Adams aside The theme of this week’s episode of Show Your Work is finding the sexy in the unsexy. Or reframing what used to be considered the “unsexy” work of Hollywood. Which is basically everything that happens behind the camera. Let’s start with the money. Usually the celebrity money stories By Lainey • Jun 25, 2018 04:30 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Tiffany, Ocean’s, and Tracee This week’s episode was recorded on Thursday night because of my travel plans which means Duana and I had no idea, LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD, that we were about to go Apesh-t. One of the founding principles of Show Your Work, however, is to “give them what By Lainey • Jun 18, 2018 02:01 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Reese from Type A to Hello Sunshine This week’s episode of Show Your Work was brought to you by… you. Many of you emailed and tweeted about the new Fast Company profile of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, that it’s perfect content for Show Your Work – and you were right. It is work from top By Lainey • Jun 11, 2018 04:31 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Serena, Sam, and Drake’s crisis management We recorded this week’s episode of Show Your Work last night, knowing we wouldn’t know the outcome of Serena Williams’s match today at the French Open. Because whatever happened, the points of our discussion remain the same – Serena is, like so many women, now managing career and By Lainey • Jun 04, 2018 03:49 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Should Drake Help Jason Bateman? Pusha T released his new album, Daytona, produced by Kanye West, on Thursday night and he calls out Drake for the ghostwriting thing on a track called "Infrared". Drake would not allow Pusha one full to enjoy positive feedback. Less than 24 hours later, on Friday afternoon, just By Lainey • May 28, 2018 04:27 pm
