Upcoming Playboy Interview Podcast Reveals Star-Studded Cast

A familiar joke among men in the 60s and 70s was that they bought Playboy magazine for the articles. Despite the smirks and sideways glances emitted when hearing that refrain, a new generation can now discover how these interviews acted as a mirror to the cultural upheaval and rapidly shifting beliefs of those unsettled decades.

Playboy — owned by PLBY Group, Inc. — and Audio Up, a leading, independent podcast studio, have announced the Season One cast line-up for the upcoming Playboy Interview podcast, an audio series featuring teleplay-style reenactments of the most iconic Playboy Interview conversations.

The first and second episodes, set to be released across all podcast platforms this September, feature Rosanna Arquette as feminist pioneer Betty Friedan and Taye Diggs in an explosive and definitive portrayal of Muhammad Ali. The following episodes of the first season, which will release weekly, will showcase performances by Gael Garcia Bernal as Salvador Dali, Michael Shannon as Tennessee Williams, Shea Whigham as John Wayne, Maya Hawke as Helen Gurley Brown, Kevin Corrigan as Frank Sinatra and Gina Gershon as Oriana Fallaci.

First published in September 1962 with future Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alex Haley’s deeply personal conversation with Miles Davis, the Playboy Interview has served as a reflection of the American psyche and our cultural progress. With more than 500 published interviews, this long-form, free-ranging series is heralded for its…