Paul Giamatti On 'The Holdovers'

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Fresh Air

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2024-01-11

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Giamatti says his latest movie, filmed at various prep schools in Massachusetts and directed by Alexander Payne, triggered memories of the time he spent as a day student at a private school. He spoke with Sam Briger about his reunion with Payne after 20 years, Billions, and what he loves about acting. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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  • On the Ted radio hour, linguist Ann Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.

  • I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me, but it can't be singular.

  • And I will say, but it is the history behind words causing a lot of debate.

  • That's on the Ted radio hour from NPR.

  • This is FRESH AIR.

  • I'm Terry Gross.

  • Our guest, Paul Giamatti stars on the film the Holdovers, which is on many critics lists of 2020 three's best movies.

  • His performance just won him a Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy film.

  • Our producer, Sam Brigger, spoke with Giamatti before the awards ceremony about the movie and his career.

  • Here's Sam in the Holdovers.

  • Paul Giamatti plays a pompous and lonely classics professor named Paul Hunnam at a New England boarding school for boys in 1970.

  • He's almost universally disliked by other faculty members and by students because of his impossibly high academic standards and merciless grading.

  • The students also mock him behind his back because he has a lazy eye and bad body odor.

  • The body odor is uncontrollable, the result of a rare disease commonly known as fish odor syndrome.

  • But he doesn't do himself any favors in the way he treats his students, as he does here in this scene, handing out his students graded final exams.

  • I can tell by your faces that many of you are shocked at the outcome.

  • I, on the other hand, am not, because I have had the misfortune of teaching you this semester.

  • And even with my ocular limitations, I witness firsthand your glazed, uncomprehending expressions.

  • Sir, I don't understand.

  • That's glaringly apparent.