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LA TimesIt’s the Envelope podcast you love — now in living color! Finnie: I have another Robert for you: Robert De Niro, Mr. De Niro, in “Killers of the Flower Moon.” I, listen, I feel like he’s a marquee name. Villarreal: I’m thinking back to a performance that really stayed with me, which is Greta Lee and “Past Lives.” I mean, I know it feels like it’s been a while since this film has come out, but she gives a really heartfelt and compelling performance as Nora, who is this woman whose past and identity and marriage are sort of upended when she reunites with her childhood sweetheart. Villarreal: I’m going to talk about the other half of this and that’s “Barbie.” It truly was like the cinematic event of the year. I think that find those final moments of the movie, it’s almost as if he’s saying, “This is too important to me to have anybody else say this except for me.” And so I think that is that is just really exciting to see someone like Martin Scorcese still to be pushing himself the way that he is.