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.
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April 2026
Q&A with Joel Alfonso Vargas
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of Mad Bills to Pay. What was the genesis of this film and how did it become a feature?Joel Alfonso Vargas: It kind of happened during lockdown. I had some projects that I was trying to set up just before that […]
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.
April 2024
Q&A with Ethan Hawke
Can you start by telling us about your exposure to Flannery O’Connor throughout your life?
Ethan Hawke: I was first given Flannery O’Connor by my mother, who was trying to prompt the inner feminist in me. Because all I was doing was reading guys.
July 2025
Q&A with Embeth Davidtz
Congratulations on this powerful and sensitive film. When did Alexandra Fuller’s book first come to your attention, and what made you want to adapt it and take on so many roles?
Embeth Davitz: I read the book when it came out in 2003, and it just stayed with me.
January 2025
Q&A with Daniel Craig and Justin Kuritzkes
Lee feels like he’s vibrating with how nervous he is. He has this energy that makes you feel like you could touch him and feel static. Was that exhausting to play?
Daniel Craig: If it was, I don’t remember.
March 2024
Q&A with Carla Gutierrez
You’ve worked on Biopics before: for example, you edited RBG. How was making Frida different from those other experiences, apart from you directing?
Carla Gutierrez: I came to it with a personal connection. I mean, I think a lot of people have a personal connection to Frida’s art.
October 2025
Q&A with Bernhard Wenger and Albrecht Schuch
Albrecht, you said rehearsal was the most challenging of your career. Why?
Albrecht Schuch: It was, without question, the hardest preparation I’ve ever faced. At first, I couldn’t find the center of the character. He felt like someone without emotions, almost as if he were absent from his own life.
