Sarah Wood

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294 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Jun

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Isabel Waidner & Sarah Wood: As If · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah.

I mean, it's Portra or whoever you think you're going to be.

You know, it's like, how hard can it be?

It's genius in books.

It's true.

And it really hits the note of now.

I think that whole sort of the way that manipulates sort of envy between people, competition between people, it destabilises who you are essentially when you look at someone else and you think, I want to be them in that virtual world by literalising it.

I mean, it's the gift of the book, really.

I think we all need that now.

That's such a good analysis, actually.

Oh, no, I remember it.

Yeah.

But the thing that's really beautiful is the thing about role models in it.

And you talk about Gary Oldman as a role model for both of them.

It's moving.

It's really moving.

And you think how important it is.

So there's all the, yeah, how we should be like doing whatever, our 20 press-ups a day or our 5 million steps.

But actually it's about the single person who stands ahead of you and you think, oh, I could be an actor because Gary Oldman could be an actor.

So when I was reading it, I thought, no, it's really important in the spirit of the world pressing back that we all keep doing what we're doing because it's a role model to somebody.

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