You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and these are Brendan Hodges' interviews with the visual effects supervisor from Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part 1, Alex Wooka, and the film's editor, Betty Hamilton.

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All right. So I'm here with Alex Wutka from Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part 1.

He is the Visual Effects Supervisor.

And Alex, thank you for joining us today.

My first question for you is I think we're kind of living in a time where visual effects artists

maybe don't always get enough credit for the amazing work that they're actually

doing. So I thought I would start. Is there a particular visual effect, a particular shot,

a particular set piece that you're especially proud of in Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning?

Oh, wow. That's a great question.

I'm so proud on behalf of the whole team that sort of worked on this movie, and it's a big team of all of the work that we've done.

So it's kind of really tough to pick out one particular piece of work.

But I think kind of some of the work that we did towards the end of

the movie in the train wreck, some of that work in there was, you know, for me, was really

satisfying. It's kind of satisfying on a bunch of different levels. I think that the amount of

sort of work that went in behind the scenes to accomplish that, you know, kind of is my favorite aspect of it.

You know, it's such a big team effort.

You know, kind of going all the way from Tom's preparation and his, you know, his commitment to doing these stunt pieces practically all the way through to, you know, our

collaboration with the special effects team.

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