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Feeling Seen

Jordan Crucchiola, Maximum Fun

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On Feeling Seen, writer and general enthusiast Jordan Crucchiola invites filmmakers, writers, comedians, and artists to discuss the movie characters that made them "feel seen." It's about that instant when a person connects to a piece of art so deeply that they see themselves reflected in it. Every week Jordan gabs it up with a guest about those magical moments when they were watching a film and realized, "That's me!" It's an informative, funny, and comforting show about our intimate relatio ...
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I Feel Seen

Brandi Morris

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🎙I Feel Seen is a safe space that connects us through experiences which influence truth. ✨🦉 New episodes will be released weekly! 🎉🎈 Please join us as we uncover what it means to be SEEN! We can be found on Apple, Spotify Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio and many more. Connect with me on the following platforms - Twitter: @ifeelseenpod • Instagram: @ifeelseenpod • Email: ifeelseenpod@gmail.com • Use the hashtag #ifeelseenpod to keep the conversation going! Happy listening!
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Dana Ledoux Miller has written on television shows like Netflix’s Narcos and Thai Cave Rescue, ABC’s Designated Survivor, and Kevin Can F*** Himself. Dana is also the co-founder of Pasifika Entertainment Advancement Komiti (PEAK), an initiative aiming to redefine and expand Pasifika entertainment. More recently, Dana has co-written/directed one of …
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Steven C. Miller is a filmmaker of some of the most action-packed films in recent times. He’s directed films like Silent Night, Extraction, Line of Duty, and so many others, starring genre titans like Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Nicolas Cage. His latest film stars Frank Grillo in a horror thriller alongside Lou Diamond Phillips and Katrin…
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This interview (with a different "One Quick Thing" segment) originally aired in September of 2022. We're off to the see the Wizard with this REPLAY! At 62, Doug Jones is as busy as ever, playing The Baron on FX's What We Do in the Shadows, Saru on Star Trek: Discovery, and returning to the role of Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus 2. But you might be…
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Jordan Santacana is a writer and director of action films and westerns. He has directed multiple shorts this year: 4 Graves for Ximena, entirely shot on film, and Trapo Sucio: A Mofongo Western, which took home Best Action Short at this year’s LUSCA film fest. This week, Jordan joins Feeling Seen to talk about music scores, westerns, and Robert Rod…
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As an actor and musician, Alex Wolff is anything but ordinary. You may have seen Alex in films like, Hereditary, Oppenheimer, or A Quiet Place: Day One. You might have also heard his music with his sibling, Nat & Alex Wolff; the brothers are currently on tour with Billie Eilish. Alex stars alongside a stacked ensemble cast (Halle Bailey, Angus Clou…
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Cory McCullough is a rising star in horror. They run a killer blog (gorycory.net) and just produced a feature film. It’s called Welcome Week: A College Horror Anthology. College alone can be frightening but add a relentless masked killer to the mix and it’s a REAL nightmare. This week, Cory joins Feeling Seen to talk about their work AND an array o…
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Heather Graham is an absolute icon in film and television with countless credits to her name. You may know Heather from License to Drive, Boogie Nights, or her 2018 directorial debut Half Magic. Recently, Heather wrote, directed, and starred in the comedy film Chosen Family. She plays Ann, a yoga teacher struggling to achieve inner peace despite th…
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You may know Brian Jordan Alvarez from the killer horror film M3GAN or from his web series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo. Most recently, Brian created and stars in the FX comedy series English Teacher, a refreshingly hilarious original that follows a high school teacher navigating personal and professional life in Texas. It's critically …
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Tim Leong's creative direction and design is some of the best of our time, featuring icons across industries on the covers of magazines. He is also an author, penning a series of Super Graphics that guide you through various comic book universes and Star Wars. His most recent book is the Marvel Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Marvel Comics Uni…
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Rhona Mitra is known for her countless roles in film and television. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Boston Legal, The Last Ship. Rhona stars in the new film Hounds of War, an action-packed revenge story that’s streaming right now. This week, Rhona tunes in #TrulyOffGrid to talk about the film AND how she feels seen by the headstrong lead of the Br…
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Comedian and actor Chris Grace has starred in NBC's Superstore, PEN15, and Broad City. Now he takes to the stage as one of the world's most famous actresses in his new comedy special on Dropout, Chris Grace as Scarlett Johansson. Chris graces our mics to talk about the special AND how he felt seen in the 1993 ensemble-driven drama, THE JOY LUCK CLU…
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Kristen "KII" Correll isn't ashamed of her inner weirdness, and she isn't letting her big "but" stand in the way of her goals. If that's not Pee-wee Herman in a nutshell, then you don't know Pee-wee. Kristen and Jordan celebrate the many joys of Tim Burton's 1985 classic film, as well as Pee-wee's Playhouse (which is where KII was first introduced …
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Olive Penderghast might not have stood out at her high school until the big rumors started...but she certainly stands out in the world of teen comedy heroines. Writer (and Tik Tok star!) Remy Solomon watched EASY A on repeat as a teen, and shares Olive's gifts, as well as some of her life lessons. Then, Jordan has one quick thing about Jeremy Sauln…
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This interview (with a different "One Quick Thing" segment) originally aired in November of 2022. It was our 1 year anniversary! Starting off with his deep identification with the singularly obsessed Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, Paul shares stories of his childhood as a sci-fi loving movie nerd, his adulthood …
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Stand-up comedy. YouTube stardom. Male modeling. Will Hunting. A precocious wannabe pirate with super-stretch powers. What do these things have in common? Listen and find out how they all come together in the form of German-born comedian Mario Adrion, as he and Jordan discuss his affinity with Monkey D. Luffy and Will Hunting. Then Jordan has one q…
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Comedian Jen Kober always knew why she felt an affinity with Mindy Cohn's Natalie on The Facts of Life. Natalie was the rare bigger girl on TV in the 1980s, and yet that wasn't a huge part of her character -- she was smart, goofy, and beloved by her friends. As for Jodie Foster's tomboy teen in the original Freaky Friday movie? Sure, it was good to…
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When writer/director Justin Simien (Dear White People, Haunted Mansion) first saw William Greaves' groundbreaking 1968 film, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One. He was mad. Not about the film's avant-garde style (part fiction, part documentary, part performance art) but about the fact that he hadn't seen it sooner -- it might've saved him a lot of tro…
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Director Jennifer Phang has helmed episodes of some major shows -- THE BOYS, RIVERDALE, THE EXPANSE, RESIDENT ALIEN, THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT, and more. Her latest film is Disney's DESCENDANTS: THE RISE OF RED. In this conversation, themes of humanity, mother/daughter relationships, and robots of all stripes abound in this episode, and no wonder, when …
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Before Bill Burke founded The Optimism Institute and started hosting the podcast Blue Sky, he had a major career in entertainment business -- the first GM of Turner Classic Movies, former CEO of the Weather Channel, ghostwriter of Ted Turner's memoir, just to name a few. Now, as someone devoted to the cause of seeing the positivity in the world wit…
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First time feature director Sean Wang wanted a story that only he could tell, specific yet relatable. And so, with his new film 'Dìdi,' (a Sundance hit this year) he chose the coming-of-age genre and a semi autobiographical narrative. He was inspired in his filmmaking by a movie he'd seen in the theaters when he was around the same age as its prota…
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Sequoia Holmes, host of the Webby Award-winning BLACK PEOPLE LOVE PARAMORE grew up idolizing Raven-Symoné...or was the real inspiration Raven's character, the self-assured and big-dreaming Galleria Garibaldi in 2003's THE CHEETAH GIRLS? Jordan and Sequoia celebrate the surprising depth of this DCOM classic. Then, Jordan has one quick thing about TR…
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Actor (and director, writer, producer) Devery Jacobs might be most familiar to folks from her role on RESERVATION DOGS, but she's carving out her own space in Hollywood with projects like the new movie BACKSPOT (executive produced by Elliot Page and directed by D.W. Waterson). And even as she's playing her part in making sure Native actors feel see…
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This episode originally aired in April of 2023, but has been edited to include a new and updated "One Quick Thing" at the end! Season 2 of Manzoor's We Are Lady Parts is now streaming on Peacock in the US. Balancing the dark and the light sides of coming of age, womanhood, and navigating the social order is something filmmaker Nida Manzoor always s…
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Whether he's starring in major movies like ELEMENTAL or JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION, or sinking his teeth into roles like his his latest (in Yorgos Lanthimos' new KINDS OF KINDNESS), actor Mamoudou Athie follows his gut and ignores the algorithms. When Dev Patel's directorial debut, MONKEY MAN hit theaters earlier this year, Mamoudou found new depths o…
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June Squibb was born an actor, and had a rich career on stage for years before becoming an on-screen performer in her sixties. It’s not your typical trajectory, sure, but then neither is being 94 and carrying your first feature film – which, by the way, is an action comedy. With her new movie THELMA new in theaters this weekend, the singular June S…
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The movie CLUE may not have been an instant hit, but it has an enduring legacy. And maybe everyone has a favorite character. But for Adam Goldman, creator and writer of The Outs and Hot White Heist, Mr. Green (Michael McKean) is more than just a fave. He's a first example of what it means to be a "gay dipshit" (his words, we promise). Then Jordan h…
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Actor, director, and writer Megan Rosati was not a child vampire. But from first watch, she so identified with Eli, the 12-year-old vampire in LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, the modern horror classic from Sweden, that she would show the film to people to help them understand her. In this episode, she and Jordan dig into the ways we can feel like we're diffe…
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New Yorker cartoonist and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Asher Perlman, related to Charlie Kaufman's self-deprecating self-portrait in Spike Jonze's 2002 film Adaptation - a movie we discussed here in one of our earliest episodes, with author Susan Orlean. As he's grown up -- both as a person and a creative -- has he gotten more in …
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You definitely know DeWanda Wise from somewhere. She's made a splash on the big and the small screen, in titles like SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT (the Netflix series) and JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION. Now she's starring in the horror film IMAGINARY, which just landed on VOD after being in theaters earlier this year. But if you didn't realize that was the same De…
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With CHALLENGERS, screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes tapped into what he really wanted to know about his favorite athletes: what are they REALLY playing for? Beyond the game? That's a glimpse we get into Brad Pitt's Billy Beane in the 2011 film MONEYBALL. What's more, we see Beane trying to do something anyone who's tried to get a movie or a play off th…
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Sierra Katow is an Asian-American woman in stand-up comedy, but those parts of her identity are surface-level. What you might not know about Sierra (unless you watch her new special, FUNT) is that she's also a little sister. That's not the only point of recognition she has with Lilo and Mei, heroes of Lilo & Stitch and My Neighbor Totoro, but it's …
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Drag superstar Latrice Royale has been in the game since before Ru Paul's Drag Race was a phenomenon. She won Miss Congeniality on her season of that show, and went on to appear on All-Stars and Drag U. An actor and performer, Latrice is one of the co-hosts of the just-launched Season 4 of HBO's We're Here. And if you know anything about Latrice, j…
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This episode originally aired on May 18, 2023. From her roles in a semi-autobiographical sitcom in 1996 (Life's Work) to The Parent Trap to Abbott Elementary, Lisa Ann Walter has played a lot of different kinds of strong, brassy women. And even though standards of beauty and acceptance in Hollywood are always changing, those winds haven't always bl…
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Larry Fessenden is almost a kind of mythic figure in the world of indie filmmaking. He's a filmmaker behind dozens of his own independently produced projects, an actor, an editor, and a producer who's helped give directors from Ti West to Kelly Reichart their start. His new film is BLACKOUT, which focuses on a different kind of mythic figure: the w…
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Avril Speaks, independent filmmaker and co-host of the film advice podcast DISTRIBUTION ADVOCATES PRESENTS tells us why J from AWKWARD BLACK GIRL was such a revelation -- even more so than when the successful web series morphed into INSECURE, and J became Issa. Plus, she shares her affinity with Summer, a teen girl coming of age as her mother conve…
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THE SAVAGES (directed by Tamara Jenkins, who also directed SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS, and starrring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman) is an often poignant comedy about adult siblings trying to get care for their elderly father, who suffers from dementia. That might not be the most expected pick from a director whose new horror film, IMMACULATE,…
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It's the final week of #MaxFunDrive! Thanks to everyone who has joined or upgraded so far; if you've been putting it off, now's thie time! maximumfun.org/join It's been a long time since comedian Jackie Kashian (co-host of MaxFun's own Jackie and Laurie Show) has been a industry newb like Benji (Mark Linn Baker) in 1982's MY FAVORITE YEAR. But she …
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This podcast is part of the #MaxFunDrive! If you’d like to help this podcast continue and get great gifts in the process, go to maximumfun.org/join and become a MaxFun Member for as little as $5 a month. You can also upgrade or boost your membership for as little as $1 more a month to help the show out even more and earn gifts and certain levels. C…
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Susie Banikarim has been a freshman journalist. She's also been a boss. Now, she's the co-host and EP of the podcast In Retrospect, along with her friend, New York Times editor Jessica Bennett. Over the years, Susie has kept watching the 2006 modern classic The Devil Wears Prada, and she's noticed a funny thing happen. Where once she (obviously!) i…
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Comedian Caitlin Peluffo (whose new album, DIRTY BIRD, just dropped) was a soccer star as a kid who craved attention from boys, despite not fitting the "cute girl" stereotype. Becky "Icebox" O'Shea, a central character in the 1994 family football comedy LITTLE GIANTS, is on the precipice of that same flight. Caitlin never did shake her deep affinit…
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Brigette Lundy-Paine comes from a creative family, and (in addition to their music and their work on WAIF Magazine), has been acting since childhood. In adulthood, success in their career has shown them the difference between being playing a role on screen and playing one in real life. Joe Buck, the pretend cowboy and wannabe hustler at the center …
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The host and writer of the SIGNIFICANT OTHERS podcast, Liza Powel O'Brien, was a teenager when Dustin Hoffman's iconic Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels dropped into her life via TOOTSIE. The Michael/Dorothy transformation illustrated to her the same thing it showed Michael in the movie: it takes a lot of work to dress up like a woman. Jordan and Liz…
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Oscar Montoya is a co-host of the new MaxFun podcast Eurovangelists, all about the Eurovision Song Contest. And his love of song and spectacle factors into his professional life as a dancer, actor, and comedian. But long before that career began, Oscar was a kid growing up in Colombia, where for some reason a 1985 movie called Young Sherlock Holmes…
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It's a banner day for Feeling Seen! On the heels of her latest screenplay, LISA FRANKENSTEIN (in theaters now), Jordan is talking to none other than Diablo Cody. From the Oscar win for her first screenplay (JUNO) to her recent success in the realm of the Broadway musical (JAGGED LITTLE PILL), Diablo has made a career of writing from her unique voic…
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While MILLER'S GIRL, in theaters now, is Jade Halley Bartlett's debut feature, she's been a working screenwriter, playwright, and actor for many years. In this conversation, Jade and Jordan discuss the multi-faceted awakening that was Elizabeth Taylor as the witty-but-acerbic, strong-but-broken Martha in Mike Nichols' debut feature, WHO'S AFRAID OF…
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You might know Moshe Kasher from his standup, from his podcast Endless Honeymoon (co-hosted with his wife, actor/comedian Natasha Leggero), or from his memoirs -- of which the latest, SUBCULTURE VULTURE: A MEMOIR IN SIX SCENES, is out now. But that's just scratching the surface in the many lives and quests of Moshe. He tells Jordan about his forays…
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The interview in this episode was originally published in March of 2022. Before she was the starring alongside Jodie Foster in TRUE DETECTIVE, Kali Reis was a champion boxer. As she shares in this interview, she has always been "boxing for a cause" -- in particular, that of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women. In her feature debut, 'Catch the Fai…
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Star of stage and screen, film and television, voice over and live action, Parvesh Cheena's list of credits is expansive -- and you've almost certainly seen or heard him in SOMETHING (Barbershop? Outsourced? Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? Mythic Quest? The Mandalorian?). Parvesh has carved out a place for himself as a character actor -- a position that has a…
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Comedian and writer Josh Gondelman is a pep-talk enthusiast and famously upbeat guy, with a solid career and a happy home life. Not one of these traits does he share with Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), from the Coen Brothers' 2013 film INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS. And yet, when he saw it in the theater, Josh felt so seen by Llewyn -- and not in a good way -- …
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Growing up on the rez, comedian and writer Joey Clift didn't know that comedy (or TV writing) was an option for him. But a decade in Hollywood has taken him from UCB teams to Emmy nominations, and on the way he's helped create the Native representation he didn't see as a kid. He's also watched as the industry has begun to make that representation m…
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