{"id":19139,"date":"2026-01-31T08:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/?p=19139"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:20:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:20:55","slug":"episode-178-discussing-rachel-mcadams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/episode-178-discussing-rachel-mcadams\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 178: Discussing Rachel McAdams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an episode my guest and I have discussed doing for a couple of years, and with the release of a new film with the subject of the episode, it made sense. The topic is Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams, who has shown herself to be a versatile performer in a variety of films over the years. My guest is fellow critic and podcaster Morgan Roberts, the host of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalegazefilmclub.com\/\">Female Gaze: The Film Club<\/a>. We focus on the early part of McAdams&#8217;s career in film with Nick Cassavetes&#8217;s <i>&#8220;The Notebook&#8221;<\/i>, Mark Waters&#8217;s <i>&#8220;Mean Girls&#8221;<\/i>, Wes Craven&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/movie\/red-eye\/\"><i>&#8220;Red Eye&#8221;<\/i><\/a> and Thomas Bezucha&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/movie\/the-family-stone\/\"><i>&#8220;The Family Stone&#8221;<\/i><\/a>. I hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><b>Episode 178 &#8211; Discussing Rachel McAdams<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ts3mMylU-io?si=KpTmVHAOVPKa1AMH\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening,<\/p>\n<p>Brian Skutle<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonic-cinema.com\">www.sonic-cinema.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to the Sonic Cinema Podcast Below:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sonic-cinema-podcast\/id1517240092?fbclid=IwAR2SQjRFKtVRgHXXvQCXskcOuoJL0jC4StOkspYP_Dah0CiFzwhjp2HlkOw\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/goodpods.app.link\/pNgKOtWO2tb\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/goodpods-images-bucket\/badges\/generic-badge-3.svg\" alt=\"Listen On Goodpods\" style=\"width: 150px\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an episode my guest and I have discussed doing for a couple of years, and with the release of a new film with the subject of the episode, it made sense. The topic is Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams, who has shown herself to be a versatile performer in a variety of films [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-podcast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/69215A18-1F66-4B16-BA1D-206E3F8C48D3.jpeg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19141,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19139\/revisions\/19141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}