Episodes

  • Coming Soon (Trailer)

    Coming Soon (Trailer)
    Apr 7 2021
    With a new episode every Tuesday, Death of a Film Star takes you inside the worlds of those superstars who make us believe in the greatest tales ever told – how they transformed themselves, how they made their roles real, the price they paid for giving so much of themselves to us. From the early stars of the silver screen, lifted from obscurity to unprecedented levels of fame, to the 21stcentury icons who remade our culture around them, these are their unforgettable inside stories – inspiring, tragic and unforgettable. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    8 mins
  • Heath Ledger

    Heath Ledger
    Apr 12 2021
    When you see the news, his face stays with you. Heath Ledger as the Joker. Smeared in white grease paint, a slash of red across the mouth, a shock of dark blue around the eyes. When you take on a part so completely, it’s hard to get out. Things merge. Actor and character meet and mix. But Heath’s not that Joker. He’s another. Because he’s an actor who doesn’t play by Hollywood’s rules. He’s a man who doesn’t follow suit… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 mins
  • Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe
    Apr 19 2021
    WARNING: this episode contains references to suicide. It’s not true to say there’s never been anyone like Marilyn Monroe. There’s always been movie stars. There’s been blonde ones. Ones with bodies that half the world wants to stare at and the other half want to ban. But no-one’s done it like her, and no-one’s paying quite such a price. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 mins
  • Chadwick Boseman

    Chadwick Boseman
    Apr 25 2021
    There’s stuff you know about Chadwick Boseman – what he’s done as Black Panther, how good he was as James Brown in one biopic, as baseball hero Jackie Robinson in another, as judge Thurgood Marshall in his most recent. He’s different for the roles he plays, and different for what he does with them. But different, too, for all the stuff you don’t know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 mins
  • Brittany Murphy

    Brittany Murphy
    May 3 2021
    For Brittany Murphy, Hollywood’s a hall of mirrors. There’s a different Brittany wherever she looks. For some she’s a comic sidekick, for others a screen siren. Is she on the rise or washed-up? Under-appreciated or over-promoted? A victim or part of the problem? Sometimes, in Hollywood, when you’re looking for reality, all you find are others’ reflections. And eventually even Brittany herself is lost... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 mins
  • Robin Williams

    Robin Williams
    May 10 2021
    When Robin Williams dies, you remember a connection. One that first forms in an empty mansion outside Detroit, and then reaches through the screen, big and small, into houses all over the world. President Barack Obama says what Robin meant to him. And to millions of others. “Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien - but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit.” WARNING: This episode contains references to suicide and addiction. If you’ve been affected by any of the issues we spoke about in this podcast or are worried about someone you love, please go to crowdnetwork.co.uk/helplines to find a list of people you can go to for help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 mins
  • Cory Monteith

    Cory Monteith
    May 18 2021
    When Cory Monteith’s story goes public, people are shocked. To most of us, his death is… unbelievable. But that’s not the truth. The truth will force people in Hollywood to have difficult conversations. About addiction. About addicts. About stereotypes. Demons always catch up with you. It doesn’t matter who you are. What you look like. Or who people think you are. WARNING: This episode contains references to drug use and addiction. If you’ve been affected by any of the issues we spoke about in this podcast or are worried about someone you love, please go to crowdnetwork.co.uk/helplines to find a list of people you can go to for help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 mins
  • Sharon Tate

    Sharon Tate
    May 24 2021
    There are no happy endings with Sharon Tate. No logic. This story is many things: the death of a young woman; the murder of a film star, a wife and a daughter. But it’s so much more, too. It’s madness come to La La Land. A cult leader gone crazy. It’s bad drugs and messed-up ideas and exploitation and carnage. It’s darkness descending over a town that’s meant to be all sunshine and dreams come true… WARNING: This episode contains graphic descriptions of murder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    31 mins