The Wife (2017)

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Wikidata Q28318271, film, IMDb tt3750872, TMDB 340613: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by year 2017 in mention (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman); 2 more episodes agree.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Cats: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Cats → The Wife. Their producer says Cats will be the new The Wife: a long-running running bit on the Oscar show.
    “cats is the new, the wife, right?”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Glenn Close: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): The Wife → Glenn Close. Close's acceptance speech about her mother and the film's hard path to being made moved the room.
    “I was so moved by going close to speech.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:32:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Max Pirkis: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (actor-turned-executive): Max Pirkis → The Wife. The boy who plays Blakeney became head of acquisitions at Embankment, whose first film under him was The Wife.
    “In 2016, he was appointed head of acquisitions and distribution at embankment film.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:04:46 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

The Favourite: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): The Favourite → The Wife. The Favourite's Olivia Colman beat the star of The Wife, which the hosts had watched and podcasted.
    “She, of course, won best actress for the favorite, defeating the star of the wife.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:16:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

The Two Popes: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): The Two Popes → The Wife. Speaker said The Two Popes would turn out to be this year's equivalent of The Wife, a back-door acting-nominee film.
    “It's weird that the 2 popes turned out to be the new the wife.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:14:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): The Wife → Glenn Close. Close's acceptance speech about her mother and the film's hard path to being made moved the room.
    “I was so moved by going close to speech.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:32:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): The Favourite → The Wife. The Favourite's Olivia Colman beat the star of The Wife, which the hosts had watched and podcasted.
    “She, of course, won best actress for the favorite, defeating the star of the wife.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:16:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (actor-turned-executive): Max Pirkis → The Wife. The boy who plays Blakeney became head of acquisitions at Embankment, whose first film under him was The Wife.
    “In 2016, he was appointed head of acquisitions and distribution at embankment film.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:04:46 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Cats → The Wife. Their producer says Cats will be the new The Wife: a long-running running bit on the Oscar show.
    “cats is the new, the wife, right?”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): The Two Popes → The Wife. Speaker said The Two Popes would turn out to be this year's equivalent of The Wife, a back-door acting-nominee film.
    “It's weird that the 2 popes turned out to be the new the wife.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:14:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about The Wife: The hosts joke about not having seen it, then pledge to see it after Close's speech.
    “Glenn Close, I commit to you, I will see the wife.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:45:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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