About this episode
Benicio del Toro talks about his leading role in Wes Anderson's new film, The Phoenician Scheme . He'll look back on his acting career, and tell us about moving from Puerto Rico to Pennsylvania in his teens. His other movies include The Usual Suspects , Traffic and Sicario . Justin Chang reviews the new rom-com Materialists , starring Dakota Johnson. MSNBC political analyst Molly Jong-Fast's mother Erica Jong became famous from her 1973 novel Fear of Flying , which was considered a groundbreaking work of feminist literature. But Molly's mom became addicted to the fame and couldn't bear to lose it. She talks about her childhood and a year of great loss in her new memoir, How to Lose Your Mother . Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy