Sandra Luckow directed Belly Talkers, a brilliant documentary about the weird, wacky subculture of ventriloquists and their dummies. But don’t call them “dummies.”
The proper term is “figures.”
So says lucky in this week’s installment of “Castaway,” the Independent’s original podcast series.
The interview isn’t with Luckow alone. She brings along her figure, Juanito, a smooth Latin lover who got once got Sandra — herself half-Mexican — of racism. Juanito and Sandra both answer questions, Oppenheimer tries to figure it all out; click on the play arrow to give it a listen.
Afterward, check out the previous Scientology installment of Castaway here and the interview with Pulitzer Prize winner and New Haven resident Debby Applegate here.
