A podcast examining, in chronological order, the filmography of the great character actress Jennifer Jason Leigh. Each month, Sam Inglis and Jason Shawhan discuss, analyse and, let's face it, probably argue about a JJL film or TV project. They'll try to place it in the context of her career, and of its genre and wider place in cinema.
Fearless Pretender: The Jennifer Jason Leigh Podcast
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A podcast examining, in chronological order, the filmography of the great character actress Jennifer Jason Leigh. Each month, Sam Inglis and Jason Shawhan discuss, analyse and, let's face it, probably argue about a JJL film or TV project. They'll try to place it in the context of her career, and of its genre and wider place in cinema.
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Recent Episodes
June 6, 2025
FP bonus experience: Proof (2001)
Podcast host Jason and guest Sean Burns analyze Jennifer Jason Leigh's 2001 Broadway performance in Proof, touching on various topics like stagedooring and the impact of 9/11 in this interview episode.
February 7, 2025
FEARLESS PRETENDER Episode 23: “I Practically Run That Office Now” (Backdraft)
<p>Join Jason and Sam this month as returning guest Liam McCloud saddles up a seat on the fire engine for a discussion of Ron Howard’s 1991 film Backdraft. They also get into Pulsating Door Cinema, The looming Baldwin/Skarsgård Points of Divergence, Casualty!, Celebrity IOU, Fabulous Baker Boys hair, The Pillow Pyro, professionalism as a foundation, Stephen Baldwin’s career that could have been, toxic dynamics in closed structures, Jason making completely unfounded comparisons between US/UK civic structure, Frequency, ‘80s/’90s/Aughts revivals, historic moments in terrible CGI fire, European language questions, Hannibal Lecter and Clint Howard rankings, what it means to Edwige Fenech a film, boxcuts, inciting incidents/object lessons, Sliver, boat parties, OSHA laws, controversial Pacino thoughts, mysteries and subterfuge, a (shocking) secret of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, and the Pete Burns/Glenn Danzig Continuum.</p> <p><br></p> <p>If you’ve been looking to find ways to help the victims of the Los Angeles fires, a good starting place is <a href="https://www.mutualaid.la/resources" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.mutualaid.la/resources</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>There’s also a spreadsheet that aggregates GoFundMes, as well as linking out to the Displaced Disabled and Displaced Latine spreadsheets, all of which are collated here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/444f75yv" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/444f75yv</a></p> <p> Our theme music comes courtesy of composer Tim Kutz. Follow him on Twitter @Rockub420 and check out his brand new album at theeuphoricrecall.bandcamp.com/album/side-b. </p>
January 10, 2025
Episode 22: Unviewable JJL
<p>Join the gentlemen for the latest special episode of Fearless Pretender, where we explore two legendary pieces of Lost JJL work: we explore the remnants left behind of the TV pilot Partners in Life (and the show it eventually became) as well as Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut, examining the ripples left from works which are simply – gone.</p> <p><br /></p> <p>In addition, you’ll hear Sam and Jason get silly and sorrowful and talk about cartoons, The Wall Of Temptation, more multiverse theory, cult followings, Margaret Dumont, boxsets, Laura Branigan, Single Female Lawyer, Stanley Kubrick as Master of sexual signifiers, QAnon, the Johan Falk films, the legacy of devoted fans and their video instincts, Jack Parsons, a future mystery, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, eidetic memory, Temptation vs Possibility, The JPL, lost media, William Friedkin, Luke Skywalker & The 2 Live Crew, Strange Angel, Liv Ulmann’s Faithless, Star Trek pilots and their evolutions, the cinema of grind, Thelema, realtime social media intervention, and Jason getting ridiculously in-depth about photochemical processing and camera philosophy and the various and sundry transfers of the film.</p> <p><br /></p> <p>Also, Jason misidentifies Sydney Pollack’s character as “Zidler,” rather than “Ziegler.” Zidler is Jim Broadbent’s character in Moulin Rouge!</p> <p><br /></p> <p>Laura Branigan’s “Self Control” video, directed by William Friedkin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0_8J7uxhs</p> <p><br /></p> <p>The 1969 Traumnovelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u50DsIKCa1w</p>
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