Understanding the Cannes Awards, Riz Ahmed on the Heartfelt Bait, and What It’s Really Like to Be on Pop Culture Jeopardy
5/26/202659 min
Chris Feil joins Katey to look over the winners from this year's allegedly "off" Cannes Film Festival, and predict which titles will be a major part of the coming awards season. They also reveal some behind the scenes details from the experience together on Pop Culture Jeopardy, now on Netflix! Then Katey talks to Riz Ahmed about his limited series Bait, which is both semi-autobiographical and wildly inventive, but all from a deeply personal place. 00:00 Intro 01:51 Recapping Pop Culture Jeopardy 07:51 Why We Love The Cannes Awards 11:10 Neon's Seventh Palme D'or 12:26 A Win For Fjord 14:47 Minotaur Wins The Grand Prix 16:42 The Dreamed Adventure Surprise 18:39 The Black Ball 22:11 Why The Ties Worked This Year 24:10 A Man Of His Time 25:31 Polakowski's Divided Response 26:22 The Queer Palm And American Shutout 29:07 Good Cannes Or Bad Cannes? 31:29 Next: Riz Ahmed 33:02 The 10-Year Journey To Make Bait 35:00 Art As Therapy 36:48 Why It Had To Be Tv 38:06 Genre-Flipping Through Character 39:54 How Patrick Stewart Became A Pig's Head 42:33 Likeable Vs Real Characters 45:46 Getting James Bond Approved 49:03 Love Letter To London 51:51 Shutting Down Brick Lane 53:31 The Most Romantic Episode 55:37 Hamlet As A 15-Year Dream 57:22 Why Passion Projects Are The Only Way Subscribe today to Prestige Junkie After Party bonus episodes. Subscribe to the Prestige Junkie newsletter. Follow Katey on Letterboxd. Follow The Ankler.
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First 90 secondsKatey Rich· Host0:00
This episode of Prestige Junkie is sponsored by YouTube, presenting six primetime Emmy eligible series redefining what television looks like today. Hit YouTube creator shows, Hot Ones with host Sean Evans, Michelle Khare's Challenge Accepted, Brittany Broski's Royal Court, Subway Takes with Kareem Rahma, Julian Shapiro-Barnum's Celebrity Substitute, and Huge If True with Cleo Abram, are must-see TV for millions around the world, and now they're on the primetime Emmy ballot for your consideration. Television has a new home. Stream all six series now only on YouTube. [upbeat music] Hi, everybody. It's the Prestige Junkie Podcast. I'm Katie Rich, and today we have awards to talk about because the Cannes Film Festival has wrapped up, handed out a raft of awards, including a seventh Palme d'Or to Neon. To talk about all of it is a returning guest, my friend, this hat Oscar buzzes Chris Feil. Hello, Chris.
Chris Feil· Guest1:06
Good morning.
Katey Rich· Host1:07
Happy Cannes. Thank you for joining me. And Chris and I are gonna talk about Cannes, but you may be used to hearing our voices together because we were just on Pop Culture Jeopardy! together. So we're gonna talk about it.
Chris Feil· Guest1:17
We were a gracious ninth alternate of some kind. [laughs] We, we, you know, uh, spoiler alert, it, it wasn't our game, but we had an amazing time doing it.
Katey Rich· Host1:28
We will talk about a little