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Speaker: Welcome to Lightning Round, an adaptation podcast.
Speaker: I'm Nate and I'm without my co-host today because I'm traveling to visit my sister and I'm here with Katie.
Speaker: Hi Katie.
Speaker: Hi, how's it going?
Speaker: I'm great.
Speaker: How are you?
Speaker: Good.
Speaker: Good.
Speaker: I'm in Omaha for the Thanksgiving holiday and I wanted to get Katie on the mic because later this year Chris and I will be covering
Speaker: The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden and its film adaptation directed by Paul Feig.
Speaker: And my sister Katie is a huge fan of the book and not just that book but she's a pretty voracious reader, a very big bibliophile in her own right.
Speaker: And I wanted to talk to you a little bit about The Housemaid.
Speaker: Yes, I love this book.
Speaker: The whole series actually, all three of them are fantastic.
Speaker: There's three?
Speaker: There is three.
Speaker: This is the first one.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And it's like the series is done or is there more coming?
Speaker: It's done as far as I know and the story just continues through all three books.
Speaker: She's written the same like two characters.
Speaker: It's Millie the maid and Nina the lady.
Speaker: Um, no.
Speaker: Millie the maid works for other people in the second and third books, but it continues to follow her.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: But this was the first one, and this was the first Frida McFadden book that I read as well.
Speaker: Oh, really?
Speaker: Okay, so you're a big... Yeah, you're a huge Frida McFadden fan.
Speaker: How did you first find this book if it was the first Frida one?
Speaker: Um, I think just by popularity, mostly, um, seeing it on Goodreads and things.
Speaker: Um, she, this one, she published in 2022 and I read it the summer of 24.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Um, so I think it was just starting to get popular and then it really, really boomed after that.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: But, Frieda McFadden is actually a neurologist too.
Speaker: She is?
Speaker: Oh wow.
Speaker: She's a doctor.
Speaker: Frieda McFadden is her pen name.
Speaker: Her real name is not known to the public.
Speaker: Really?
Speaker: At all?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Wow, that's legit.
Speaker: Yeah, she's a doctor, specializes in brain injuries, so any of her, like, psychological thrillers, and she has, like, like, all of that is very accurate.
Speaker: Wow, that's cool.
Speaker: She knows what she's talking about, yeah.
Speaker: Okay, that's right up your alley, too, because you're a nurse.
Speaker: Yes, I do enjoy that stuff, and it drives me crazy when it's not accurate, so it's kind of nice.
Speaker: I scrolled through your Goodreads the other day, and
Speaker: I can't remember what book it was, but you were like some of the stuff could have been more better researched.
Speaker: And I was like, I bet you almost anything that was medical.
Speaker: Yes, probably.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Okay, cool.
Speaker: Well, I'm so excited to see the movie later this year.
Speaker: As you know, I don't read all that much, but you got both mom and dad to read this book.
Speaker: All three of you have rated it five stars on Goodreads.
Speaker: I want to get a read.
Speaker: on what you think of the movie so far obviously we're recording this like I said I'm I'm in town for Thanksgiving so the movie hasn't come out yet we've gotten a couple trailers so I want to ask you about sort of the vibe the casting so tell me what do you think of the casting first of all particularly Amanda Seyfried as Nina and Sidney Sweeney as Millie
Speaker: The casting for Nina I think is great.
Speaker: I think that'll be good.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: She's one of the better actresses working today too, I think.
Speaker: And that is very much a character who they want you to think one thing about her and... Oh, and it's something else.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So I think that that one's going to be really good.
Speaker: She's good at that nuance, yeah.
Speaker: The Sydney Sweeney for Millie, when I first heard that I was kind of pissed, honestly.
Speaker: Just because she's so stereotypically in that like,
Speaker: I mean, she's known for her boobs.
Speaker: Right, right.
Speaker: She is just like the hot blonde.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And Millie's a richer character than that is what you're kind of getting at?
Speaker: I mean, she makes this a psychological thriller.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: She's like a genius?
Speaker: She's a genius.
Speaker: She is scary.
Speaker: She is... Oh, yeah.
Speaker: And so I just had a hard time seeing Sidney Sweeney in that role.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: And even after the first trailer, I was kind of still thinking that.
Speaker: But since I saw the second trailer, I've gotten a lot more excited for the movie.
Speaker: Really?
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Maybe because that trailer showed a few details that I wasn't sure if they were going to have those in the movies.
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: So I feel like sometimes...
Speaker: I mean, I almost always like the book better than a movie.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Because it has so many more details and little things.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But it did show a couple things like that in the second trailer.
Speaker: Oh, got you buzzing a little bit.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And I have heard that Frieda McFadden is pretty excited about the movie.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like said that it's pretty good.
Speaker: Really?
Speaker: Good.
Speaker: Great.
Speaker: So I'm excited.
Speaker: I think it'll be good.
Speaker: I was definitely nervous at first, but the second trailer has gotten me excited.
Speaker: Really?
Speaker: Good.
Speaker: That makes me excited.
Speaker: I think it looks really good.
Speaker: I mentioned to you offhand the other day that they're sort of funny trailers because I still don't really know what the movie is about.
Speaker: But I assume, my understanding is that there's lots of twists and turns and it would probably be really hard to market this story.
Speaker: without revealing.
Speaker: I mean, you haven't told me anything about the plot.
Speaker: Anything.
Speaker: That's because I would give something away.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: 100%.
Speaker: There is twists and turns.
Speaker: And you even, you learn a lot throughout the story too.
Speaker: Like from the very beginning, you know that both Millie and Nina have some sort of history.
Speaker: Together?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Oh, like there's more to their characters than meets the eye.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Like Millie gets this job as a housemaid right at the beginning and you know that there's something that she's covering from her past, but you don't know what that is until much later.
Speaker: And then same with Nina.
Speaker: When you first meet her, you know and you hear rumblings through their very posh neighborhood that Nina has some sort of a past, but it's kind of been swept under the rug and that doesn't kind of come out until later too.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: it's, yeah, it's really hard to not give anything away.
Speaker: Okay, well, I'm still excited that the trailer did that thing.
Speaker: I'm sort of a sucker for it, even though it's like a total cliche at this point where they put in a really popular pop song, you know, it had Please, Please, Please by Sabrina Carpenter, but it has this like,
Speaker: creepy mix.
Speaker: You know, I'm such a sucker for that when they do that.
Speaker: So I was just like, I'm ready to party.
Speaker: And it does look kind of like a party.
Speaker: Like there's screaming and there's blood and there's like, not in like a horror way, I just made it sound like a horror story.
Speaker: But I also saw it's tracking for a $30 million opening, which is really big for the week before Christmas.
Speaker: And I've heard that Lionsgate, the studio behind it, is also very confident in the movie as well.
Speaker: So
Speaker: I'm excited for it.
Speaker: I want to run you through a list of Paul Feig's movies, the director, and just hear if you've seen them and if you like it.
Speaker: Ghostbusters with Melissa McCarthy.
Speaker: Yeah, I saw it.
Speaker: What'd you think?
Speaker: I love that movie.
Speaker: Yeah, I like it too.
Speaker: I think it's really funny.
Speaker: He's mostly known as a comedy guy every once in a while.
Speaker: He sort of zags into this like...
Speaker: almost catfight-y drama that's kind of a reductive and misogynistic way to describe these stories.
Speaker: The look I got from Katie was not very pleased.
Speaker: Spy by Melissa, or with Melissa McCarthy.
Speaker: Yep, another funny one.
Speaker: The Heat with Melissa McCarthy.
Speaker: Okay, he directed Bridesmaids.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: One of the greatest comedies of all time.
Speaker: So it's interesting because those movies are very far from Housemate.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: He did do the movie A Simple Favor and its sequel, which sort of goes into that thriller.
Speaker: Yeah, psych thriller, mystery, crime, dark comedy.
Speaker: Is there any dark comedy in this?
Speaker: Like, is it supposed to be ironic or anything like that?
Speaker: I wouldn't say necessarily in this one, I don't think.
Speaker: But Frida does some, like, dark medical humor kind of stuff.
Speaker: In her other stuff.
Speaker: In her other books.
Speaker: Oh, interesting.
Speaker: But I'm...
Speaker: Not really remembering any comedy in this one.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: It'll be interesting to see.
Speaker: I'm super excited, mostly just because the three of you are so excited.
Speaker: And I can't wait to see it.
Speaker: And are you going to run and see it in theaters as soon as you can probably?
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: Good.
Speaker: That's what I like to hear.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker: And then maybe we'll get the second one too.
Speaker: That'd be awesome.
Speaker: Yeah, I hope so.
Speaker: I mean, if it opens with 30 million, that's a pretty good sign.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: As long as it can hold out against some of its Christmas competition.
Speaker: But I wanted to have you on to discuss this beforehand, and I'd love to have you on afterwards after you've seen it and I've seen it so we can talk about, you know, some of the details.
Speaker: You can talk a little more spoiler, and I'll actually know what
