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Awards Chatter

Adam McKay - 'The Big Short'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The 47-year-old best director and best adapted screenplay nominee talks about his journey through the comedy world, how he shifted gears to tackle Michael Lewis' 2010 bestseller, why he's backing Bernie Sanders and reteaming with Will Ferrell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hollywood reporters awards podcast I'm the host Scott Feinberg and on this of Awards Chatter, The Hollywood Reporters Awards podcast.

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I'm the host Scott Feinberg and on this episode we are so lucky to be joined by one of the funniest people in the world

0:49.3

who also showed this year that he's got a serious side as well and is able to blend the two very

0:54.7

effectively at the movies Adam McKay. You know his work better than his name, but he's been

1:00.0

a staple of the comedy scene for decades. First in Chicago where he helped to

1:04.6

found the upright Citizens Brigade and then became a part of Second City. Then

1:08.6

through Saturday Night Live where he was a writer and director, eventually rising

1:12.3

to Head Writer, and where he and

1:14.0

and will ferrill eventually rising to head writer and where he and will ferrill hit it off

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the two have since gone on to make five movies together

1:17.6

anchor man the legend of round burgundy talladigan knights the ballot

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of ricki bobby step brothers the other guys, and Anchor Man 2, the legend continues.

1:25.9

And the two are also behind the hit website funny or die dot com, the first viral video of which,

1:31.0

the landlord, starred McKay's daughter, Pearl. But it's McKay's most recent film

1:35.8

an adaptation of Michael Lewis's 2010 best-selling book The Big Short that has proven

1:41.2

beyond a doubt that he can do a lot more than quote unquote

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