# Wake Up Dead Man Interview: Kerry Washington, Mila Kunis & Cailee Spaeny on Navigating Hollywood Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/collider-ladies-night-collider-forces-919901/wake-up-dead-man-interview-kerry-washington-mila-kunis-cailee-spaeny-on-navigating-hollywood Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/collider-ladies-night-collider-forces-919901/wake-up-dead-man-interview-kerry-washington-mila-kunis-cailee-spaeny-on-navigating-hollywood.md Podcast: [Collider Ladies Night & Collider Forces](https://stenobird.com/podcast/collider-ladies-night-collider-forces-919901) Published: 2025-12-24T19:47:13+00:00 Episode link: https://collider.com/tag/ladies-night/ Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/62b0de082f353c00144a202f/e/694c4341cb029db757892ffe/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/collider-ladies-night-collider-forces-919901/episodes/wake-up-dead-man-interview-kerry-washington-mila-kunis-cailee-spaeny-on-navigating-hollywood Duration seconds: 1756 ## Resource Ever since we started hosting live  Collider Ladies Night  panels  at San Diego Comic-Con , we’ve been tempted to explore doing group editions of the show, and what better ensemble to start that with than the women of the new  Knives Out   movie? Mila Kunis ,  Cailee Spaeny  and  Kerry Washington  are some of the latest to join  Rian Johnson ’s growing  Knives Out  family. In the third installment of the Oscar-nominated franchise,  Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery , Spaeny and Washington play two of Monsignor Wicks’ ( Josh Brolin ) parishioners. Washington’s Vera Draven is a lawyer whose father was a close friend to Wicks before he passed, and Spaeny plays Simone Vivane, a renowned concert cellist struggling with health concerns. When Monsignor Wicks is suddenly killed in the middle of a service while totally alone in the storage closet, Kunis’ Police Chief Geraldine Scott calls upon Benoit Blanc ( Daniel Craig ) to investigate. Could Vera or Simone have killed Wicks? Or perhaps it was another member of his flock? Or, what about the church newcomer,  Josh O’Connor ’s Father Jud Duplenticy? This time around, Blanc will have to do the impossible — solve a locked-room murder mystery. The  Knives Out  movies have become highly regarded for their summer camp-like sets and for their unparalleled rosters of talent, and  Wake Up Dead Man  is no different. Not only are Kunis, Spaeny and Washington fantastic additions to this cinematic world, but they also rock a wonderful group dynamic in an interview setting, one oozing with enthusiasm for each other as people and artists, feelings that left them eager to reunite for another film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/collider-ladies-night-collider-forces-919901/episodes/wake-up-dead-man-interview-kerry-washington-mila-kunis-cailee-spaeny-on-navigating-hollywood/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/collider-ladies-night-collider-forces-919901/wake-up-dead-man-interview-kerry-washington-mila-kunis-cailee-spaeny-on-navigating-hollywood.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.