Pol Anglada: You scroll on your phone and see a 30-step skincare routine, Palestinians being completely obliterated, and then something totally trivial. It’s so fucked up.
Sabrina Carpenter: There’s a lot of sparkles. There’s a lot of smiling. There's a lot of clapping and dancing, and it feels as silly as it sounds.
Anglada: That’s sometimes a faster way to share a message.
Carpenter: That’s what people say about L.A.
Anglada: And then later on, the internet.
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Carpenter: The button that I’m talking about isn’t an entirely different human.
Anglada: Especially in the current climate, where differences between humans seem to be more important than their own respect for existing, I think that coming as intimate and as vulnerable as one is, it’s quite radical.
Carpenter: Most of the time, you’re really quickly thrust into physical rehearsals, but this time around we started this process around seven months ago.
Anglada: It was like a punk Frankenstein with a young girlfriend, very “What the fuck is going on?”
Carpenter: And hopefully we get to see each other soon.
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Anglada: Excitement, nervousness.
Carpenter: Oh my goodness, yes.
Anglada: How would it work if I had to do this in reality?
Carpenter: There’s definitely a pessimistic version of it, but I think there’s enough hope in young people and that’s really beautiful to watch.
Anglada: That wandering feeling, when you let yourself get lost in it.