Edel Coffey
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144 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Aug
Edel Coffey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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you know, to protect the person you're writing about if what you're writing is hurtful.
You know, I do feel that myself in my own work.
But, you know, people will think it's about them.
A lot of people say, oh, that's about me.
And I'm like, it's absolutely made up and not about you, you know.
Yeah, so it seems like there's a general distancing on the side of Natalie Portman's people saying, well, they were friendly, they weren't friends and, you know, they don't know each other well enough for her to be able to write a portrayal of Natalie Portman.
And on the Cusk side, I actually believe that Rachel Cusk has invented a character.
based on a very famous actor's life, but not necessarily based on any kind of real detail about Natalie Portman's life.
And the book itself is more about how difficult it is to live a sort of real and authentic life in the experience of fame.
Yes, she has become this kind of cultural touchstone, particularly for millennial women.
I don't know how or why it happened, but she seemed to sort of explode in popularity, particularly after her death.
And maybe it's to do with the fact that her films, you know, the streaming phenomenon,
Her films are widely accessible on all the streamers now and before you would have had to rent them or catch them on TV whenever they're on.
Also social media, she was responsible for so many pithy one-liner and quips that they're very adaptable to social media.
You can clip them and post them and she was very clever, she was very quick, she was very bright.
And obviously that is very attractive, particularly if you want to post it on social media and look clever and quick and bright too.
But also she wrote about female experience.
She became famous for her personal essays as well as those truly wonderful romantic comedies that you mentioned there.
She was a journalist first and she wrote these personal essays in the 60s and 70s at a time where it wasn't really that common for women to write about themselves in this honest,
satirical, sort of self-deprecating way that, you know, has become so well known to us now.
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