About this episode

Oscar Isaac and Ali Wong discuss various topics including their careers, personal experiences, and the intricacies of acting.

Topics covered include: NPR podcast voice, evangelical upbringings, Beef creator Lee Sung Jin's incredible observations of things that are both really painful and really funny, little mullets, Ali's love of Ex Machina , parallel play, the impressive amount of bodily fluids in Beef , Oscar first meeting Carey Mulligan on set of Drive , getting to play really bad people, going down a YouTube rabbit hole to learn how people respond to psychedelic toad venom, the intricacies of staging a masturbation scene, Ali competing for roles with Stanley Tucci, and Sonny’s trick of taking you to Korea so you have nobody to complain to.

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