A Behind The Scenes Look At "Black Mirror" Season 7

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

"Black Mirror" is now in its seventh season, and the British anthology television series is still going strong under the leadership and direction of series creator Charlie Brooker. Paul Giamatti received fantastic reviews for his performance in Episode 5, "Eulogy," and there was a ton of anticipation for the sequel to one of the show's most acclaimed episodes, "USS Callister" with "USS Callister : Into Infinity." Gigmatti, Brooker, Stephan Pehrsson (Cinematographer for "Bête Noire" & "USS Callister : Into Infinity"), and James MacLachlan (VFX Supervisor) were all kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work on the series, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the series, which is now available to stream in full on Netflix. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and these are Daniel Howard's interviews
0:05.0	with the star of episode five of Season 7 of Black Mirror, Paul Giamatti, the show's writer and creator,
0:13.0	Charlie Brooker, cinematographer for Betay Noir and USS Callister into Infinity, Stephen Pearson,
0:21.0	and visual effects supervisor James McLaughlin.
0:25.3	We'd like to welcome you back.
0:29.0	Ready?
0:30.1	Yeah.
0:30.9	Three, two.
0:32.8	And action.
0:34.4	They call it mind expanding.
0:37.2	It alters your neuronal structure.
0:40.7	The mind is a computer.
0:45.7	Suddenly, we're not just more receptive.
0:51.1	You become a receiver.
0:53.1	Well, Paul, this is Daniel Howitt from Next Best Picture.
0:56.7	I really can't tell you what a pleasure it is to speak with you.
1:00.7	Your work has meant so much to me over the year.
1:03.9	So I really appreciate your time this morning.
1:05.9	Well, it's very kind of you.
1:06.9	Thanks.
1:07.5	Nice to talk to you.
1:08.6	Well, you know, this episode of Black Mirror is really wonderful. It's such a beautiful episode.
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