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February 2023

Q&A with Chris Smith

Is it correct that you had a very small crew, during production? Was that always the plan?
Chris Smith: When we first went out to Robert Downey Jr.’s house in the Hamptons, he said that we couldn’t bring a crew. Which I only found out two days beforehand.

May 2018

Q&A with Chloé Zhao and Brady Jandreau

Can you take us through the process of making this film? There was a long period of time when you were building toward something like this.
Chloé Zhao: During my third year at NYU, I was thinking about what feature film to make. That’s when I first went out to Pine Ridge.

June 2024

Q&A with Viggo Mortensen and Vicky Krieps

What was the process of getting in sync with each other? Was there a lot of workshopping or did you wait until the outset to really work out the scenes?
Viggo Mortensen: I don’t think we workshopped anything. When Vicky was doing something that worked really well, I didn’t say much of anything. But when I had a different thought or wanted to try something different, I would say something. But mostly, I thought she always understood the character really well, which was great.

March 2026

Q&A with Maggie Gyllenhaal

That dance number was incredible! What was it like to direct a big dance number?
Maggie Gyllenhaal: That dance number was a very specific tightrope walk. The way we shot it and the way we choreographed it took a lot of care, forethought, and then a lot of work.

June 2025

Q&A with Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer

Congratulations on this incredible film. I want to start with your producer credit. What does that role mean to you?
Celine Song: Being a producer can mean a lot of things. Sometimes it’s financial, but for me, it meant being in the creative trenches—casting, budgeting, locations, all of it.

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?

July 2025

Q&A with Eva Victor and Lucas Hedges

The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of Sorry, Baby. The film feels like you have a lot of trust in the audience to be patient, to wait for explanations, and to understand nuance. Was it that way during development?Eva Victor: Yes. I was honestly forced to be […]

May 2025

Q&A with Christopher McQuarrie

You mentioned the first act was the hardest to edit. Can you expand on that?
Christopher McQuarrie: Every time we finish one of these movies, we’re at the premiere and in that moment where the film ends but right before the credits start, Tom will lean over and say, “we could do better.” We came away from Dead Reckoning knowing not only that we could do it, but we had to do it.