Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Appearances
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
I do.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
The thing is, a lot of people do. I've been getting a lot of people saying, that's my mother-in-law. Lots of mother-in-laws, by the way. That's my mother-in-law. That's my auntie. That's my friend. A few people have professed to being her. Oh, really? Yeah. And I'm like, you're too self-aware. She's not self-aware. She thinks she's nice.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
Right. Thank you.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
Yeah, totally. He'll call you or email you and say, I'm doing a film. I don't know what it's about. I don't know what you'll be playing in it. But we're going to have fun. And you go, yes, of course. I love that. I love being terrified.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
Yeah, no, it's a really sort of creative, collaborative, rewarding experience because, you know, he respects you as a creative artist, you know, and not just an interpreter of his vision. So you really do work on it with him.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
Oh, no. He always says, at the start of every project, he'll say, I want you to bring in a list of people you know from real life. And you go in. I mean, I had over 100 on my list, but he doesn't ask for 100. But he wants more than five or 10.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
You're like, I'll give you 100. I think it was about 140, actually.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
And you sit there and you describe them all to him and talk about them. And it's like being in a therapy session, only you're analyzing someone else. And then, you know, that list gets smaller and smaller and smaller until you settle on about three, between three and five people. And then you do these exercises to merge them until you've got one person.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
And then you start building the character from there.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
I mean, all the performances in the movie are fantastic.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
You know what? We've got a really disciplined process. We never refer to ourselves as the character. It's always in the third person. You never say I, otherwise he'll kill you. Um, so you're used to getting out of character, but I would, I'd have her thoughts in my head. So I started to sort of hear her voice with me saying, look at him. What's he got that shirt on for?
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
You know, and I'd be like, shut up, Pansy. But when I got home, I'd cook, I'd play music, drink wine, all the things she doesn't like doing.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
So I was like, yes, I own me. It's me.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
Well, we'll see if we can conjure her.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
I'll warm up slightly.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
What's that? A track.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
It's disgusting. It's another way to get money out of people. If people stayed inside, we wouldn't have the problem in the first place. So maybe there should be more curfews.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
She thinks he needs to be checked into hospital straight away. Straight away.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
Who on earth is that?
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
I quite like the baddies, you know, the Bond baddies and, you know, the criminal mastermind, that sort of character.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Carter Funeral Guest List, Politicizing LA Fires, Sports War: Bonuses vs. Ratings
Yes. Well, not quite, yeah, but sort of. I mean, yeah.