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The Business

Allen Hughes on the experience of directing 'The Defiant Ones'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Filmmaker Allen Hughes has been friends with music moguls Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine for years. But when he set out to make the new HBO documentary series The Defiant Ones -- about their careers -- Hughes found that getting them to open up on camera wasn't easy.

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

0:05.0

You can't make movies about your friends or your family, and you're trying to tell a truth and expect it to go swimmingly.

0:13.8

They're great to collaborate with, but they are really intense.

0:18.2

Filmmaker Alan Hughes has been friends with legendary music moguls Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine for years.

0:25.3

But when he set out to make the new HBO Doc series the defiant ones about their careers,

0:30.8

Hughes found that getting them to open up on camera wasn't easy.

0:34.5

Hughes tells us how he got Iovine and Dr. Dre to participate in the project,

0:39.1

along with everyone else in the music industry, from Bruce Springsteen to Ice Cube to the

0:44.3

interviewerverse, Patty Smith. He also talks about how this series led to an emotional revelation

0:49.7

of his own, finally processing the deaths of hip-hop icons Tupac Shakur and EZE.

0:56.2

But first we banter.

0:57.9

Stick around.

0:58.6

It's the business from KCRW.

1:04.2

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter.

1:12.7

Hello, Matt.

1:13.3

Hi there.

1:14.5

So, in this past week, we have seen the escalating war between CNN and Donald Trump.

1:20.7

And Donald Trump had obviously tweeted the GIF or GIF.

1:25.0

I think there's two variations on that.

1:26.9

And I go GIF, but other people go GIF or GIF. I think there's two variations on that. And I go GIF, but other people go GIF.

1:30.9

Of him body slamming, this thing that was, this is a whole saga. But the part of the saga about

1:37.3

CNN and that GIF are not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about the idea that Donald Trump

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