<div> <p><strong>What Does It Mean to Become Someone Else?<br><br></strong>Award-winning actor and producer Paul Giamatti joins Joanna Ebenstein for a wide-ranging, eerie, and often amusing conversation about monsters, performance, and the porous boundary between life and death.</p><p>From childhood fascinations with werewolves and classic horror to the uncanny psychological states accessed through acting, Giamatti reflects on a lifelong obsession with transformation—of bodies, identities, and consciousness. He recounts a genuinely unsettling ghostly moment during a production of Hamlet, explores the idea of acting as a form of possession, and considers why theatre can feel more spiritually charged than film.</p><p>The conversation weaves through late-night radio and the hypnotic voice of Art Bell, Giamatti’s cult television series <em>Lodge 49</em>, esoteric book collecting, and the strange intimacy of voices in the dark.</p><p>Thoughtful, curious, and quietly uncanny, this episode asks what it really means to inhabit other lives—and what those experiences might reveal. </p><p>📢Listeners! You are invited to share your own <em>offerings</em>: voice notes on death, dying, ritual and the beauty of finitude. Include your first name and location if you want them shared- you might be featured in an upcoming episode. Send your offering via WhatsApp to <a href="https://wa.me/message/GFWDJDKM26K3F1%20">+44 2921 690468</a>.</p><p>💀 <em>Memento Morbid</em> is produced by Overcoat Media in partnership with Morbid Anatomy.<br>Host: Joanna Ebenstein<br>Series Producer: Jess Gunasekara<br>Studio Engineer: Fernando Velazco Vargas<br>Additional Production and Sound Design: Katie Hill<br>Production Coordinator: Janice Jardine <br>Executive Producer: Steven Rajam<br>Artwork: Lauren Seeley</p><p><a href="https://substack.com/@mementomorbid">substack.com/@mementomorbid</a></p></div>