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Benny Safdie on 'The Curse' — and performing goodness

Benny Safdie on 'The Curse' — and performing goodness

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Director and actor Benny Safdie is probably best known for
co-directing the film Uncut Gems, but he's also acted in
Oppenheimer, Licorice Pizza, and one of host Brittany Luse's
personal favorites: Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. In his
latest project, Safdie co-created and acts in Showtime's The Curse.
It's an intensely uncomfortable examination of the smoke and
mirrors behind your favorite home improvement shows, but it's also
a marriage drama – and it picks apart our desire to seem like good
people, rather than being good people.

Host Brittany Luse sits down with Safdie to learn what makes home
improvement shows both soothing and sinister — and the difference
between do-gooders and seem-gooders. They also play a game where
they're forced to distinguish reality from fiction.

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