🎧 Richard Rushfield's 'Hollywood Stories': 'Big Mouth' Creators Nick Kroll & Andrew Goldberg Tell (Almost) All
The pod's season 2 debuts! Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett also join to reveal how the beyond-bawdy animated hit rose from Netflix's 'Wild West' early days
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Hollywood Stories is back! The Ankler pod series — whose first season, dedicated to tales from the ’90s, welcomed Ron Meyer, Winnie Holzman and Mike De Luca and Richard Brener — returns with untold tales from the world of TV as shared by the people who work in its trenches. In this debut episode of season 2, Richard Rushfield hosts a revealing, in-depth interview with four creative minds behind Netflix’s hilarious, animated (but decidedly not-for-little-kids) hit, Big Mouth, whose eighth and final season drops on May 23.
Comedians and co-creators Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg swing by to discuss their silly, simpatico partnership that dates back to first grade, their own anxieties from puberty, and how they used their celebrity pull to get Hugh Jackman, Jordan Peele, Paul Giamatti and others to sign on for appearances.
Richard also sits down with veteran writers and fellow co-creators Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, who explain why you can never go too far in pushing the risqué envelope and why Big Mouth, which premiered in 2017, could never in a million years have happened at a network. “It would have been a different show,” says Flackett.
“It was a bit of the Wild West” at Netflix, Kroll recalls. “From the jump, they were like, ‘Just go for it.’ And we did.”
