To Be Cringe Is To Be Free! With Angourie Rice
5/20/202630 min
An unexpected episode topic for one of the most accomplished, coolest people we've had on the podcast - 25 year old Australian actress, Angourie Rice. You have definitely seen her before as Cady Heron in Tina Fey's Mean Girls Movie with Renee Rapp. She's also starred in The Nice Guys, Spiderman: Homecoming, Ladies in Black, Mare of Easttown and so much more.
I chat to Angourie about her brand new film, produced by the same people to bring us Bridget Jones Diary and Love Actually, a rom-com called Finding Emily. Given the perfectly cringe nature of rom-coms, I ask Emily about her thoughts on experiences on embracing cringe, feeling comfortable in Hollywood, what 'cool' is to her and grand romantic gestures.
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First 90 secondsSarah-Jane Adams· Host0:00
[upbeat music] A listener production.
Angourie Rice· Guest0:04
And I think we're all constantly worrying about ourselves or a version of ourselves being cringe. And what is coolness? If coolness is not caring, I'm never [laughs] gonna be cool. I care about so many things.
Sarah-Jane Adams· Host0:15
[upbeat music] [upbeat music] Hi, I'm Sarah, and this is Small Talk. It's not quite a news headline, but it is what the girls are talking about. [laughs] Sorry, I do that line at the beginning, and it always feels so cringe.
Angourie Rice· Guest0:31
[laughs] I actually love it.
Sarah-Jane Adams· Host0:33
[laughs] Thank you so much. And I'm here with Angourie Rice. I'm so excited to have you in today. I, like, to be... [laughs] You can see in the title that we're doing an episode about being cringe.
Angourie Rice· Guest0:44
Mm.
Sarah-Jane Adams· Host0:44
But the irony of having, like, one of the most accomplished, coolest people [laughs] here.
Angourie Rice· Guest0:47
Oh my gosh. [laughs] Are you kidding? I feel cringe all the time.
Sarah-Jane Adams· Host0:51
[laughs] Well, then that's great.
Angourie Rice· Guest0:53
Constantly.
Sarah-Jane Adams· Host0:53
We'll get into that. Now, for those who don't know, I'm gonna do a bit of a rundown of everything- Okay ... you've done- Thank you ... so, so everyone is across. [laughs] Uh, you have had so many incredible roles. You've been in The Mayor of Easttown with Kate Winslet. You were, of course, Cady in the recent Mean Girls musical- Yeah ... with Tina Fey and Reneé Rapp. You were Betty in the recent Spider-Man films, not to mention The Nice Guys and Senior Year, and recently The Last Thing He Told Me with Jennifer Garner. That's, a- and now Finding Emily.
Angourie Rice· Guest1:21
Yeah.
Sarah-Jane Adams· Host1:21
That's quite the IMDb.
Angourie Rice· Guest1:23
[laughs] Thanks. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's been over a number of years, so, like, you know, it's not all in, in