Rena and Sara prefer that our podcast be at least half an hour shorter than the movies that we talk about. Rena generally dislikes listening to other podcast hosts banter about their personal lives, so she's happy to cut all of that out. But we needed to learn some new audio skills, so she spliced together a bunch of random irrelevant host banter and a few things that were cut for running time.

Topics include:

• The excellence of Teresa Anne Savoy's hair in Caligula.
• Sara's insights regarding the role of dinosaurs in American history.
• A trip to Père Lachaise.
• Listener feedback.
• Rena's least favorite biopic.
• Plus much, much more.

Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it.

Imgur: https://imgur.com/user/BiopicAPodcastStory

Reagan is finally here and boy does it look mighty bad.

Rena and Sara try to make sense of the Reagan trailer, a film that has been waiting for its moment since filming in 2020, and speculate on its contents, whether its director is an auteur, and the putty and prosthetics budget. We play a game called “Desperate or Canceled.” This film will star Dennis Quaid as Ronald Reagan, Mena Suvari as Jane Wyman, Penelope Ann Miller as Nancy Reagan, Dan Lauria as Tip O'Neill, king of accent work John Voight, Robert Davi, Kevin Dillon, Scott Stapp, and maybe Kevin Sorbo.

We peel back the infinite layers of Jon Voight's unconvincing de-aging makeup on our journey through development hell and production purgatory, in search of empty cowboys. Along the way, we meet an unholy daisy chain of banally-named production companies, make bets on the still-unconfirmed running time, explore the choices made while filming during COVID, and identify the bad guys and the absentees.

Spoiler warning: We might spoil everything? We’ll know more when the film comes out on August 30.

Visual Aids: https://imgur.com/gallery/reagan-trailer-emergency-episode-of-biopic-podcast-story-tvdbwrk

Rena and Sara do an introductory explainer episode for Biopic: A Podcast Story.

This is where we explain how the rating system works, how we choose what movies to cover next, and what is and is not a biopic for the purposes of this podcast.

We talk about ourselves a little bit, and Rena serendipitously pitches Sara’s dream biopic project: Andy Warhol Presents Abe Lincoln’s Sleep.

Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it.