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Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer at the\xa0New York Times\xa0and the creator of the new Hulu television series\xa0Fleishman Is in Trouble, based on her\xa0bestselling novel.\n\u201cI took the cast out to dinner \u2026 And the way they began talking to each other, which was very intimate, was like a punch in the stomach. Because I had always thought that I got people to open up to me [in celebrity profiles]. And I was like,\xa0Oh, no, I got them to answer questions differently than maybe they had before.\xa0\u2026 And that was a little devastating to me.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@taffyakner\n\ntaffyakner.com\n\n\xa0Brodesser-Akner on Longform\n\n00:00\xa0Brodesser-Akner on Longform Podcast (#126)\n\n\n00:00\xa0Brodesser-Akner on Longform Podcast (#350)\n\n\n01:00\xa0Brodesser-Akner's\xa0New York Times\xa0archive\n\n\n01:00\xa0Brodesser-Akner's\xa0GQ\xa0archive\n\n\n01:00\xa0Fleishman Is in Trouble\xa0(Hulu \u2022 2022)\n\n01:00\xa0Fleishman Is in Trouble\xa0(Random House \u2022 2020)\n\n04:00\xa0"Billy Bob Thornton on Bad Santa 2, Ungrateful Fans, and Why He Won't Direct Anymore"\xa0(GQ \u2022 Nov 2016)\n\n09:00\xa0"Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle"\xa0(New York Times \u2022 Feb 2018)\n\n13:00\xa0"The Gospel According to Marianne Williamson"\xa0(New York Times \u2022 Sep 2019)\n\n14:00\xa0Erin Brockovich\xa0(2000)\n\n17:00\xa0"This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad"\xa0(New York Times \u2022 Nov 2019)\n\n17:00\xa0"What Happened to Val Kilmer? He\u2019s Just Starting to Figure It Out."\xa0(New York Times \u2022 May 2020)\n\n23:00\xa0Little Miss Sunshine\xa0(2006)\n\n23:00\xa0Ruby Sparks\xa0(2012)\n\n24:00\xa0"Christian Slater Isn't Mr. Robot, He's Mr. Nice Guy"\xa0(GQ \u2022 Aug 2016)\n\n27:00\xa0"Water\u2019s Edge"\xa0(GQ \u2022 Jul 2015)\n\n33:00\xa0"CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper Is the Realest Man in \u2018Fake News\u2019"\xa0(GQ \u2022 Apr 2017)\n\n41:00\xa0"How Goop\u2019s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow\u2019s Company Worth $250 Million"\xa0(New York Times \u2022 Jul 2018)\n\n47:00\xa0Sam Anderson on Longform Podcast\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices