How did you find the book this film is based on, and what attracted you to adapting it?
Thomas Bezucha: The novel “Let Him Go” was written by Larry Watson, who I’ve been a fan of for well over twenty years.
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December 2013
Q&A with Thelma Schoonmaker, Terence Winter, and Leonardo DiCaprio
What was the process of you discovering the source material and trying to get it produced?
DeCaprio: As soon as I read the novel I thought, “This is like a modern day Caligula.”
January 2016
Q&A with Steve Carell and Adam McKay
What drew you to this story?
Adam McKay: We had done a movie with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg called The Other Guys, and the goal of that movie was to do a comedic parable of the collapse.
April 2022
Q&A with Simon Rex
What were your first thoughts, after reading the script?
Simon Rex: I was just like… whoa. Whoa. WHOA!
September 2020
Q&A with Richard Tanne
What did your writing process entail?
It kind of had the whiff of destiny, from the time I read the book.
May 2016
Q&A with Richard Linklater, Wyatt Russell, Blake Jenner, and Tyler Hoechlin
You said that your biggest talent was in the casting of the film.
Linklater: I think the movie speaks for itself in that way.
October 2013
Q&A with Paul Greengrass, Tom Hanks, and Barkhad Abdi
You were shooting in environmental conditions that were extremely difficult. Can you talk about those challenges?
Greengrass: The first day we shot in the lifeboat was really intense.
June 2016
Q&A with Pamela Romanowsky
How did you get involved with this project?
I came to this book as a casual reader. I got it from the same bookstore you see James [Franco] signing books in at the start of the movie.
February 2023
Q&A with Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Helen Hood Scheer
How did you two come to work on this project together?
We started working on what we thought would be a triptych, looking at sex, birth, and death on screen from a women’s perspective. We started the one about sex and it was an avalanche of ideas and people and different actors that we wanted to speak with, and that’s really where it began.
December 2013
Q&A with Justin Chadwick, Anant Singh, Idris Elba, and Naomie Harris
Would you have made the film any other way, looking back?
Having been in this industry for a long time, trying to get movies made is very challenging under any circumstances.
October 2018
Q&A with John C. Reilly, Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, and Alison Dickey
As a producer on the film, can you talk about the struggles of shooting abroad?
JR: Turns out you can’t just march into Yosemite with some horses and light some fires. It’s a lot tougher to shoot in some of the places we were looking for.
March 2021
Q&A with Jessie Barr and Nicole Holofcener
What was it like developing the script with your cousin Jessica Barr after she had written the first draft?
Jessie Barr: We did a lot of talking and a lot of sharing; there were intimate conversations about what we’d gone through when we lost our parents.
October 2021
Q&A with Jessica Kingdon
You did almost all of the work on this film— what was that experience like?
Jessica Kingdon: I did have a close cinematographer, Nathan Truesdell, and we shot it together. But, yeah, it was very much a film that was coming out of my own mind.
November 2014
Q&A with Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Matthew McConaughey, and Christopher Nolan
Mr. McConaughey, how did you approach Cooper?
I always saw Cooper as a man out of time.
October 2019
Q&A with James Mangold and Jenno Topping
Can you talk about what it was like to craft these characters?
James Mangold: I’m a big believer in hanging out. I am not a big believer in rehearsing.