We’re excited to introduce you to a show we know you’ll love: Talk Easy. Hosted by Sam Fragoso, Talk Easy is a weekly series of intimate conversations with artists, activists, and politicians—where people sound like people.

This week we sit with musician Alana Haim, star of the film from director Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza. Making her acting debut, Alana shares the serendipitous backstory that led to the project, the “7th grade forever theory” that helped her get inside the character of Alana Kane, a high school house party where she baked cake and fell in love, and the fortuitous afternoon she met future co-star Cooper Hoffman. 

In the back half, we talk about the early days of HAIM and how art helps transcend our own limitations, culminating in the night Alana drove a six-wheeler truck up (and down) the pitch black hills of the San Fernando Valley, as co-star Bradley Cooper rode shotgun. We also discuss the forthcoming HAIM tour, the song she is most excited to perform from Women in Music Pt. III, and what she hopes for as she enters her thirties.

For more, listen to Talk Easy wherever you get your podcasts or head to: https://lemonada.lnk.to/TalkEasywithSamFragosofd

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