What was your experience like coming to this project?
Jason Segel: I had made a decision that I wanted to do something entirely different than what I had been doing.
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April 2022
Q&A with Pierre Perifel, Luc Desmarchelier and Marc Maron
In a narrative film, a character might have some piece of wardrobe or a prop that helps them inform the character. How did you work together to develop the voice of Snake?
Marc Maron: When we first got there, they showed me the sketches for the character but I think they were still trying to figure out how to get him to move.
April 2021
Q&A with Lee Isaac Chung, Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, and Yuh-Jung Youn
Steven, how did you conceive of Jacob initially?
Steven Yeun: When I read Isaac’s script, it was really honest from all perspectives and that was really the foundation of it all.
November 2020
Q&A with Kirsten Johnson
Sometimes as a documentarian, you don’t have total control. But it this film you were able to script things and envision scenarios.
Kirsten Johnson: Honestly I was trying to engage in not being in control.
July 2020
Q&A with Josephine Decker and Elisabeth Moss
Josephine, can you speak a bit about that rehearsal process?
When I was going into it, I thought we needed three weeks of rehearsal. Of course, we had like a day and a half!
July 2018
Q&A with Boots Riley, Lakeith Stanfield, and Jermaine Fowler
Let’s start from the beginning. Where did this come from?
Boots Riley: I knew I wanted to write something that happened in the world of telemarketing.
May 2023
Q&A with Austin and Meredith Bragg
I want to start out by talking about how you got the idea to do this. How do you collaborate to come up with this incredible work that we just saw?
Meredith Bragg: We’re not entirely sure where we first learned that pinball was illegal in many cities…
October 2018
Q&A with Alex Honnold, Jimmy Chin, and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Was the El Capitan free solo climb always the thing, or were you interested in Alex more generally?
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi: We were interested in Alex and interested in his process and interested in who he is as a human.
March 2025
Q&A with Peter Cattaneo and Steve Coogan
When you were first pitched this story, what really clicked for you? Was there a moment or scene that really convinced you that you wanted to make this?
Peter Cattaneo: Well, it’s based on a memoir, and I think what felt really exciting was that you would never dream up this set of facts.
September 2026
Q&A with Lance Oppenheim and Merritt Wever
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of Primetime. This is an incredible, confident film. You come from a strong documentary tradition. Why did you choose this to be your first narrative feature?Lance Oppenheim: Well, it’s funny. I grew up To Catch a Predator, and I discovered it […]
August 2025
Q&A with Kate Beecroft, Tabatha Zimiga, and Porshia Zimiga
Kate, as a first-time director, you went out looking for a story. How did you discover these women and this story?
We took a wrong turn, found a woman and she said, if you want an amazing story, head east of Wall and you’ll find Tabatha. That’s what I did. And I met these two incredible women along with the rest of the teenagers on the ranch.
January 2025
Q&A with Jon M. Chu, Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Marc Platt
Can you talk about the decision to set the film in 2013, and why that specific year was the right choice for this story?
Austin Peters: If you think about where we, as a country, were at in 2013… It was such a different time.
August 2024
Q&A with India Donaldson and Lily Collias
We’d been trying to cast Sam for months. And we were having a really hard time. My younger sister was, at the time, an eighteen-year-old senior in high school. Almost as a joke, I asked her, do you know any actors? Like, help me out here! And that was how I found Lily. I still can’t believe that’s our story.
February 2025
Q&A with Halina Reijn and Nicole Kidman
A lot of people have talked about the content of this film being edgy and subversive, but it’s actually a pretty sweet story about self-acceptance. Can you talk diving into that idea?
Halina Reijn: For me, that’s core of the film. There was a question that I wanted to ask myself. Is it possible to love all the different parts of yourself?
February 2026
Q&A with Emerald Fennell
I love what you said about how the book never judges its characters, despite their actions. How did that inform you as you began to adapt the book?
Emerald Fennell: I think everyone in this book is kind of deeply troubling. That’s what makes it such a masterpiece, you know? The sum of its parts and the sum of their parts are so much more.