Hello everybody. I'm Leonard Malton. This is Malton on Movies with Baron Vaughn.

And guess who's here today?

Baron to the Vaughn. That's me.

That's you. I'm the other guy in the title.

As well as...

Jesse Malton, who's usually... The part of Baron Vaughn is often played by Jesse Malton.

Not necessarily, because if it's Malton on movies, you've got two Maltons here.

We like to say two for the price of one.

And the dulcet tones of that voice you just heard right there is our guest today.

Our guest today, we're very pleased and proud to introduce you to Lenny Abramson, the director of Room.

The Oscar nominated director of room yes applause

applause absolutely delighted to be here a deserved nomination yes you're welcome

for giving you an Irish accent on a podcast you're so welcome everyone I but you

get that for free when you bring me on I'll pay you well Lenny I can't imagine what the last couple of months have been like for you.

I mean, getting to make the film is a project in itself.

Making the film, having it turn out so well, having it be well received.

But now you're in a kind of a whirlwind, aren't you?

Yeah, and it's...

Somebody said to me at the beginning of this,

when the distributor, 824 said,

okay, we're going to go for an order and release,

and we showed it to tell you right,

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