The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of The Miseducation of Cameron Post. How did this project start? Desiree Akhavan: I was sent the book and I loved it. I really loved it. I gave it to my girlfriend at the time, who read it and loved it. And, […]
Features: Q&A
August 15, 2018
The Wife – Q&A with Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Annie Starke, and Björn Runge
by The National Board of Review
Why did such a good script take so long to come to the screen?
Glenn Close: Have you heard of something called the “#Metoo” movement?
August 9, 2018
Mission: Impossible - Fallout – Q&A with Christopher McQuarrie
by The National Board of Review
It’s not your first time directing a Mission: Impossible film, and you’re the first director to come back. I hear you were kind of hesitant about that. Why?
Christopher McQuarrie: I had worked on Ghost Protocol. I came in midway through and was working on that movie. I saw Brad Bird going through what could only be described as a meat grinder.
August 1, 2018
Blindspotting – Q&A with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal
by The National Board of Review
Can you talk about the collaboration between the two of you in terms of writing, producing, and performing this?
Rafael Casal: Yeah, Diggs, can you?
Daveed Diggs: I mean we’ve been working on this for ten years at this point with our two producing partners the whole time, Jess and Keith Calder.
July 19, 2018
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot – Q&A with Gus Van Sant, Kim Gordon, and Jonah Hill
by The National Board of Review
What are the origins of the script?
Gus Van Sant: I live in Portland, Oregon. I had moved there, I think, in 1982. I had made a couple of films, and John Callahan was a visible, local character.