After Rajyasree compares the acting in The Tragedy of Macbeth to her performance in a play:
Abhinandan: You know, Rajyasree, you’re like Donald Trump. You’ll just pelo yourself...
Rajyasree: But I’m criticising my acting. I’m not saying I was so good. I feel he was so bad, he reminded me of how badly I acted. Unlike you, who would’ve said, “See! He’s a lot like me when I acted as Jude Law’s character in Closer.”
Abhinandan: I would never dream of doing that. I would never bring myself into this.
Abhinandan and Rajyasree burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen review the films Titane and The Tragedy of Macbeth; web series Yellowjackets; and Charlie Puth’s new music video Light Switch.
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Timecodes
00:01 - Introduction
04:57 - Titane
17:22 - Subscriber letters
23:17 - The Tragedy of Macbeth
43:22 - Yellowjackets
50:22 - Light Switch by Charlie Puth
52:22 - Subscriber letters
1:03:49 - The Spider-Man Problem
References
Why Lady Macbeth is literature's most misunderstood villain
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Recorded by Rounak Bhat, produced by Jude Weston, edited by Samarendra K Dash.
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