In recent years, Netflix has been discreetly banking episodes of a new program entitled Latest famous wordsInterviews with famous people entering their twilight years. The catch is that the episodes will only be broadcast after the death of the subject. The complete list of interviewed people is a closely kept secret, but last week Netflix quietly published the first episode with Jane Goodall.
The show is an adaptation of the Danish television series Det Sidste Ord (The last word). In the Netflix version, Brad Falchuk, better known as the co-creator of American horror story And Joyconducts interviews on an empty sound scene with remote cameras. In this intimate context, Falchuk often supervises his questions in the past and he reminds the subjects that “they are dead”.
If the episode of Goodall is an indicator, we can expect the future episodes to include the free opinions of famous people who are no longer concerned with the potential public game. Goodall has never been particularly shy at the idea of talking about her mind, but she does not draw any word in what seems to be her last interview:
“Absolutely there are people I don’t like, and I would like to put them on one of Musk’s spaceships and send them all to the planet that he is sure he will discover … He would be the host … with Musk would be Trump … and then I will put Putin in there. And I would put President XI. – Jane Goodall
