Terry Gross
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Podcast Appearances
And Michael Stuhlbarg plays a man whose wife is leaving him.
He might be losing his teaching job.
A student is kind of blackmailing him.
His whole life is falling apart.
And he's also wrestling with the concept of God and with his Judaism.
You play his brother.
You have a sebaceous cyst that's become a big problem.
And it's a kind of modern-day version of the book of Job.
At least that's how I think of it.
And I'm wondering if you thought of it that way and if you read or reread the book of Job to do the role and if people talked about it on the set.
What was the Coen brothers' approach to directing you?
From your point of view as an actor, what was it like to work with them?
Let me reintroduce you.
If you're just joining us, my guest is Richard Kind.