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Fantastic Women

The fantastic actress who is A Fantastic Woman.

Daniela Vega as Marina in A Fantastic Woman.

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Daniela Vega, who stars in Chile’s Oscar-nominated film A Fantastic Woman, tells Kurt Andersen about her own experiences as a transgender woman that she brought to the role. How the artist Linden Frederick got writers, including Dennis Lehane and Elizabeth Strout, to write short stories based on his paintings. A grieving widow finds comfort in the least likely of places: the cheesy movie Practical Magic. And finally Kurt talks with biographer Walter Isaacson, who says that even though Leonardo da Vinci is known as the original Renaissance man, one of his occupations is often overlooked: theater producer.

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