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Three times in the theater. Twenty-odd more at home. Six years of having thoughts about Parasite, and roughly four minutes total in which anyone has let her share them. This week Sherry Mandujano gets an hour.Mandy had never seen it. She takes notes throughout, and most of them are some version of "what genre is this," because the film keeps answering differently. The conversation follows it wherever it goes: production design, then class, then smell, then a woman scaling a wall sideways, then a formal grievance against the screenplay concerning facial hair. Nobody in this movie comes out looking good, and by the end that includes the people watching it. Press play.Guest SpotlightSherry Mandujano is an actress, singer, and director based in Los Angeles. Originally from the Bay Area, she trained at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, studying theatre performance and classical voice, before moving to LA. Her screen credits include The Young and the Restless, This Is Us, I'm Dying Up Here, Baskets, and Downsizing. On stage she's appeared in Real Women Have Curves, Man of La Mancha, and Songs for a New World, and she made her directorial debut in 2021. She performs regularly alongside Mandy in Miscast LA.

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Referenced in This EpisodeThe Main Event

• Parasite — 2019, directed by Bong Joon Ho
• Lee Jung-eun — Moon-gwang, the housekeeper
• Park So-dam — Ki-jung, the "art therapist"
• Song Kang-ho — Ki-taek, the Kim family father
• Suseok — the Korean scholar's stone tradition
• Jjapaguri (ram-don) — the noodle dish in the stairway scene
• 92nd Academy Awards — where Parasite won four, including Best Picture
• Palme d'Or — Cannes 2019

Other Films Mandy Brought Up

• Being John Malkovich
• The Talented Mr. Ripley

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