Why Is Amy in the Bath?
5.0/5
Critic Rating
In 2021, two journalists started an investigation to answer what seemed like a simple question: Why does the actor Amy Adams do so many bathing scenes? From the beginning, we suspected a conspiracy — Is Amy, who has never won an Oscar, doing all these bathtub scenes because they offer the opportunity for the kind of dramatic acting that earns the biggest, goldest prizes? This is the story of how Brandon R. Reynolds and Gabby Lombardo opened the tap on the secret history of bathtubs in cinema. They could not imagine what would come bubbling up. From Grab Bag Collab and Because It...
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Fiona Sturges • Financial Times • Feb 16, 2025
"Two episodes in, Why Is Amy in the Bath? has echoes of Dead Eyes, a similarly entertaining podcast which also asks an odd question...Reynolds and Lombardo use their theme as a springboard to uncover the history, thought processes and tropes of the film industry. And so a seemingly absurd question about an actor’s career choices quickly turns into something else: a funny, quizzical and improbably in-depth podcast about the nature of success itself."
Score: 5
Lauren Passell • Podcast The Newsletter • Feb 3, 2025
"I love weird conspiracy theories, or explorations that seem to dumb to be real explorations, and I love funny, but this isn’t just all of that, it’s also data-driven. Brandon and Gabby went through 1,500 movies…"