Kid Cudi is a hugely successful recording artist and actor from Cleveland, Ohio. Since 2009, he has released a number of hit albums, including Man on the Moon: The End of Day, Man on the Moon, Vol. 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager and Indicud. He is also a member of the band WZRD and the bandleader on IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! As an actor, he has appeared under his birth name, Scott Mescudi, in the HBO show How to Make It in America and movies such as Need for Speed and James White (for which he also wrote the score).
On a very special new episode of the Talkhouse Film podcast, to coincide with the release of Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, hip-hop star, actor and longtime Pee-wee Herman fan Kid Cudi is in conversation with Pee-wee himself, Paul Reubens. The topics they talk about include how they first met, Reubens’ journey to bring Pee-wee Herman back to the big screen, Cudi’s strong dislike of skunks (and recent encounter with a mountain lion), plus a discussion by both of planned creative projects that they’ve never talked about before. For more filmmakers talking film and TV, visit Talkhouse Film at talkhouse.com/film.
The music featured in the podcast is as follows:
1. Intro / outro underscore: “Plastic Man vs. The Giant Red Phase Of The Sun” – Iced Ink
2. “Breakfast Machine” – Danny Elfman (from the film Pee-wee’s Big Adventure)
Episode engineered by Sam Duell, edited by Mark Yoshizumi and produced by Elia Einhorn.
