Reel Confessions: Lauren Lapkus
5/19/202644 min
Lauren Lapkus steps into the confession booth to talk comfort rewatches, movie blind spots, and the films that changed her mind. Paul and Amy dig into her love for Big, 13 Going on 30, Tommy Boy, and Hocus Pocus, the strange experience of watching kids’ movies on an endless loop, and how her Newcomers podcast pushed her to finally embrace genres she’d avoided for years. Along the way, Lauren plays an unhinged “F***/Marry/Kill” , defends the magic of communal theatergoing, praises Rachel McAdams and Domhnall Gleeson, and offers repentance to The Lord of the Rings after years of unfair dismissal. You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsAmy Nicholson· Host0:00
[gentle music] Welcome to Unspooled's Reel Confessions, the show where we dim the lights and ask our guests to bare their cinematic souls. We're talking about the movies they love, the ones they hate, the films they're embarrassed to admit they own, and the reasons you might not wanna sit next to them in a dark theater. Today, stepping into the confessional, we've got Lauren Lapkus.
Paul Scheer· Host0:20
[upbeat music] Lauren, how are you?
Lauren Lapkus· Guest0:32
I'm so good. I'm so excited.
Paul Scheer· Host0:34
I, you know, I'm such a fan of everything that you do. Um, besides being a, a fantastically, a funny actress, a comedian, you also, I think, come to movies... When you and Nicole did your series and, and you went through a bunch of different genres, the way that you both approached them was one of my favorite things. [laughs] Because, you know, whether it was Lord of the Rings or Fast and the Furious, like, you came in [laughs] ver- like, with, I think, observations that I would, that I don't normally hear- [laughs] ... on movie podcasts that made me laugh so hard.
Lauren Lapkus· Guest1:04
Thank you so much. Yeah, it was really fun. That podcast, Newcomers, that we did, like, we had... You know, we were watching movies that we never thought we would watch.
Paul Scheer· Host1:13
Yeah.
Lauren Lapkus· Guest1:13
So, like, I thought I was gonna avoid Star Wars my entire life, but- [laughs] And I think Nicole did, too. We just didn't think about it. And then, you know, getting to sit down with her and watch it was so great because it's like the, it's the perfect context to get to talk about it, where you just, you can explore all the things that people