Podcasts about Ten Thousand Saints

Here is what we know about Hailee Steinfeld: At 13, she stole a movie — True Grit — from Jeff Bridges. She gave the Transformers franchise a soul in Bumblebee, and became an indie darling with The Edge of Seventeen. Dickinson, her hit series debuting a second season on Apple TV+, earned a Peabody Award for its wonderfully queer alt-history of poet Emily Dickinson, and she's about to earn her superhero merit badge as master archer Kate Bishop in Marvel’s small screen series Hawkeye. She was way ahead of everyone on the bold brows trend, and she also happens to have a side career in pop music. In short, she's an Oscar-nominated, TV show-carrying, Billboard-charting, franchise-leading actor who has remained a sought-after star for a decade. And yet, there’s hardly a viral moment or tabloid detail to find about her. She’s not walking barefoot through LAX or brandishing penis-shaped root vegetables on late night TV. Steinfeld has an Instagram — social media allows her to “connect” with fans, she tells me over our pandemic-glamorous Webex chat — but in that way your semi-online cousin has an Instagram, where she posts every so often and you think, Seems like she’s doing well! There are selfies, pictures of a tiny dog, and a thirst trap here and there, but besides the odd studio shot or press event, it’s a pretty much a standard late Millennial's IG. You have to go pages deep into Google to find anything remotely dishy about her, and the more you search, the more you dare to wonder: Has Hollywood allowed an actress the rare gift of success without giving up her life in the process? A media veteran, 24-year-old Steinfeld does not misspeak. “It's so easy to get caught up in the minutia of all of this social media stuff and celebrity culture,” she says of her career thus far, which by her own reckoning has come together “in a way that I could have never planned.” That might be true — luck matters in Hollywood — but it's hard not to see some strategy there too, even if it's prioritizing intention over exposure, a remarkable feat given the scarcity mindset Hollywood burns into its up-and-comers. In a moment where anyone even remotely public is beholden to taking a stand on social issues, Steinfeld keeps her views almost completely to herself, aside from a few Instagram posts recognizing Black Lives Matter activism during last summer’s anti-racism protests. She seems to have skirted being asked for more by virtue of the fact that she’s not trying to take up space with self-promotion — a delicate balance, to be sure. That said, she will be forthcoming about her pride in Dickinson's impact. “To be a part of a show that touches on things that matter and to be rewarded for that is such an unbelievable honor," she says of her Apple TV+ project. "At the end of the day, the one thing I hope for is that someone will watch this show and feel less alone or feel seen.” Perhaps it’s the fact that Steinfeld grew up near Los Angeles and still lives in Southern California that keeps her so low key. When you don’t have to pack up and move cross country without your friends and loved ones to chase the Hollywood dream, you’re close to the roots that sustain you. “My family is still my rock,” she says. “My friends are still in my life. I have a consistency and continuity that I feel are responsible for this sort of steady evolution I've had.” It also helps that she's never had to stage a media pivot to shake off a particular headline narrative. “I had so many people tell me before [True Grit] came out, ‘Your life's about to change! Everything is going to be so different!' I was 13 and I had no idea what that meant,” she explains. “I realized when the movie came out that they were talking about fame, that suddenly I wasn't going to be able to leave my house, you know? By the way, it was fine. The occasional run-in that I'd have was a dad being like, ‘Dude, I love your movie!’ The only thing that changed in my life was my schedule.” That lauded Coen brothers movie, her first film role and one she secured through a casting call that drew 15,000 other young hopefuls, threw Steinfeld into her first awards season, too. She calls the months-long tour of junkets and schmoozy events in True Grit’s For Your Consideration campaign “the most wild year of my life,” and in one of her first refreshingly sane moves, took following year off “to come down from it all and to reflect on what the hell all of that was.” She must have internalized the right lessons — at 14! — because she’s never come close to super-saturation since. After all, she'd already spent years leading up to her breakout learning very grown up lessons about how to handle the bruising parts of her chosen career. “From 8 to about 12, I learned very quickly what rejection felt like, what going into a room full of adults expecting a lot out of you felt like,” she says. “I realized that I'd be in these situations where I had to present myself as someone who, whether I was or wasn't, is confident enough to follow through with the job that I was trying to get.” When she returned to the hustle as a certified teen, she found herself in prime coming-of-age territory. She became a specialist in the Absent Father milieu in 3 To Kill, Term Life, Ten Thousand Saints (featuring a Steinfeld who is both pregnant and doing cocaine), Bumblebee, The Keeping Room, and The Edge of Seventeen, all of which feature the actor coping through various adolescent tribulations sans dad. She stared down the harshness of being young in the Old West multiple times, and played a young misfit finding her chosen family in broader comedic setups like Barely Lethal and Pitch Perfect 2. It's enough to make one wonder if it ever felt, well, limiting. "I've gone through moments of feeling like a lot of roles that are presented to me are too similar in that sense," Steinfeld admits, though she’s careful to emphasize how grateful she is for all her opportunities thus far. “I feel very lucky that I've never felt the need to break away from some sort of idea of me, but I'm excited that maybe that does still exist,” she says. “Maybe there is a role — and if it doesn't exist, maybe that means I have to write it — that just completely alters any sort of image of me that people are hanging on to.” Being famous is weird, and it often means being beholden to some reality show edit of yourself that fans and people who can get you jobs can reference at will. Steinfeld, though, seems to have avoided the snares.

This movie may not have ten thousand saints, but it does have about ten recognizable actors in it! This week, we're talking with Nicole Wianecki (@nmwianecki) about Ten Thousand Saints. And most importantly, we finally learn how to pronounce Avan Jogia!

Today’s interview is with Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints and The Twelve-Mile Straight. I loved my talk with Eleanor, especially for the number of practical, useful ideas she gave me. In the podcast, you’ll hear me react live to an exercise she has her writing students run through that I had to work on staying present in the interview because I just wanted to think about how I could apply it to my book. Do you know that feeling? Where you hear something so good it steals your attention? There are tons of moments like this during the interview. Thank you again to Eleanor for her time and wisdom. And now, here is the interview with Eleanor Henderson.Support the show (http://www.howwriterswrite.com)

Eleanor Henderson was born in Greece, grew up in Florida, and attended Middlebury College and the University of Virginia, where she earned her MFA. Her debut novel Ten Thousand Saints was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2011 by The New York Times and a finalist for the Award for First Fiction from The Los Angeles Times. An associate professor at Ithaca College, she lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and two sons. Her second novel is called The Twelve-Mile Straight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ten Thousand Saints v Visible Secrets on the roulette, we ask Questions of the Week, and chat Straight Outta Compton, Sheba Baby, Dope, Jupiter Ascending, Grand Piano, and much more!

Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author Eleanor Henderson about her novel Ten Thousand Saints ("I wanted to write a book not just about the coming of age of young people, but the coming of age of a city"); guest readers Sam Purdy and Shifra Sharlin join Oppenheimer to discuss brothers and mothers, guilt and love.

The guys open this week’s episode with a discussion on Deez Nuts’s candidacy for president. Then Kris and Evan rip into WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS, which they agree does NOT star Zac Efron as a young Robert Loggia. Their agitated commentary is enough to leave Dave “slack-jawed and open-mouthed.” After Kris expresses confusion over more celebrities (this time Brian Austin Green and Ian Ziering), Dave takes over to share his thoughts on two fucking horrible movies. First up is TEN THOUSAND SAINTS, where the most interesting character dies 15 minutes in and Ethan Hawke plays almost the same character he did in BOYHOOD. Second is DIGGING FOR FIRE, one of the whitest movies Dave has ever seen. Joe Swanberg’s film is about dull white people with dull white people problems, and it’s so bad that it makes Dave’s soul die a little bit.

*Apologies for the audio issues this week, we attempted a new streaming method and the result was disastrous.* This week on the show Adam and Kevin will be reviewing the thriller Cop Car starring Kevin Bacon, the coming of age drama Prince, and the indie comedy People Places Things. Other films discussed include A Letter to Momo, Air, Match, Harbinger Down, Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism, Ten Thousand Saints, and One & Two. 00:03:10 - Cop Car review00:09:32 - Prince review00:17:11 - People Places Things review00:19:16 - Watch list including A Letter to Momo, Air, Match, Harbinger Down, Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism, Ten Thousand Saints, and One & Two00:44:44 - Movie predictions, new on VOD, DVD and Blu-ray releases web: filmpulse.nettwitter: twitter.com/filmpulsenetfacebook: facebook.com/filmpulsepatreon: patreon.com/filmpulse intro music by: Matt Oakley outro music by: SJMellia 

Main Review: While We’re Young Top 5 Naomi Watts Main Review: Maggie Main Review: Slow West What Else We Watched (Inside Out, Lava, ‘71, Point and Shoot, Scream, Olive Kitterage) News Pre-Judgement Day (Creed, Snowden, Ten Thousand Saints, Legend)

Eleanor Henderson is the guest.  She's the author of the debut novel Ten Thousand Saints, now available in trade paperback from Ecco.  It was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2011 by the New York Times Book Review. ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ten Thousand Saints (Ecco) Debut novelist Eleanor Henderson will read and sign her highly acclaimed novel, Ten Thousand Saints. "Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is the best thing I've read in a long time."  —Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder "Ten Thousand Saints is funny, touching, artistic, surprising, lovely, eye-opening, and very, very wise.” —Arthur Phillips, bestselling author of Prague and The Tragedy of Arthur THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 16, 2011.