287 | Oscar Nominees Joachim Trier And Eskil Vogt On Doing It Your Way

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Joe Forte dives DEEP this week with the singular and brilliant Oscar nominated duo behind Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt. The two discuss their unique partnership which started with a tremendous appreciation and equal love of film in their late teens. Joachim and Eskil are so eager and gracious to give such insight into their process and what they believe to be the importance of craft and how they shape a script that leads to Joachim's direction; starting with character and themes instead of plot. Not painting by numbers. And utilizing their individuality to craft a film. --- Looking for more support on your writing journey? Join Meg and Lorien inside ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TSL Workshops⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Episode Links: Check out the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TSL merch shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TSL on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Screenwriting Life is produced and edited by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Alex Alcheh.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I am not Meglophob or Lorian McKenna. No, it is me,
0:06.6	Joe Forte, riding solo today attempting to fill the large shoes of my collaborators. Today,
0:12.5	we are joined by Joaquin Trier and Eskilvoort, the prolific Norwegian filmmaking duo,
0:18.4	best known for their deep, long-term creative partnership as director and co-writer,
0:23.6	crafting critically acclaimed films like the Oslo trilogy, which includes Reprise, Oslo August 31st, and their breakout, the worst person in the world,
0:32.6	which earned them the nomination for Best International Film and Best Original Screamplay at the Academy Awards in 2022.
0:41.3	Leading Lady Renato Reinsva won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for that film as well.
0:47.3	Their collaboration, which began in their teens when both were assistants on a quiz show in Norway,
0:52.3	is characterized by a unique conversational writing process,
0:56.0	focused on authentic human stories, exploring themes of memory, relationship, and art, often inspired by deep personal experiences.
1:05.0	Their latest film's sentimental value is their sixth collaboration in the third with Renato Reinsvaux.
1:12.0	The film won the 2025 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix and is nominated for eight Academy Awards
1:18.6	this year, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.
1:26.0	Joachim and Esquil, welcome to the show.
1:29.0	I'm so late to talk to you guys today about your knockout film,
1:33.5	sentimental value, which I love and watched it again last night,
1:38.6	and it just gets deeper and richer.
1:40.9	We want to talk about your scene process,
1:43.0	and of course, just want to throw props up to the worst person in the world as well and just what you guys are cooking up. It's amazing.
1:51.1	Before we dive in, we're going to talk about our weeks. This is what we do on the show. And we call it Adventures in Screenwriting. So I'll start. And, you know, this is a craft-driven show.
2:03.2	It's about the people out there who are, you know, struggling, trying to come up, you know, all those kind of things.
2:09.4	So we're always, I'm always talking to them.
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