I'm Wesley Morris, I'm a critic for the New York Times,
and I'm the host of a podcast called Cannonball.
We're gonna talk about that song you can't get out of your head,
that TV show you watched and can't stop thinking about,
and the movie that you saw when you were a kid that made you who you are,
whether you like it or not.
I was so embarrassed the whole time because it's a bad film and I still love it.
You can find Cannonball on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
From the New York Times, this is the interview.
I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro.
Maggie Gyllenhaal has always had this kind of fascination with the darker side of sex and love.
Her breakout role as a young actor came with her award-winning performance in the 2002 film,
Secretary, where she's a troubled woman who embarks on a sadomasochistic relationship with her boss.
In Crazy Heart, she played a young mother who falls in love with an older alcoholic country singer.
That role earned her an Oscar nomination.
And in the series The Deuce,
she starred as a sex worker who becomes a director of pornographic films.
That last role made her want to be a director in real life too.
And so in 2021, she won a claim with her feature directorial debut,
The Lost Daughter, about the taboo feelings some women feel over motherhood.