Aubrey Plaza, John Patton Ford on the student-loan anxiety thriller ‘Emily the Criminal’
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
When Aubrey Plaza’s colleague handed her the script for “Emily the Criminal,” she was immediately struck by it. “It was just one of those scripts that I started to read, and I just flew through it,” she says. “It's so readable and fun…it has this momentum that propels you forward.” While Plaza had found her next great project, director John Patton Ford explains why it took 12 years to write the story. With Plaza, they discuss the struggles of making “Emily The Criminal” and independent movies in general, and the film’s unexpected success. But first, Kim Masters talks to Matt Belloni about her 15-minute interview with Disney’s head Bob Chapek at the D23 Expo, as well as the PR effort to give the embattled CEO an image reboot at the event.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
| 0:05.3 | Director John Patton Ford's career got off to a very promising start. |
| 0:09.7 | His first short film played at Sundance and was shortlisted for Oscar. |
| 0:14.1 | Then, for 12 long years, Ford couldn't get a feature film off the ground. |
| 0:19.0 | That is, until busy actress Aubrey Plaza agreed to produce and star in the project, |
| 0:24.6 | and she definitely didn't do it for the money. |
| 0:27.4 | Back in the day before my time, you know, a $2 million movie could go to Sundance |
| 0:32.1 | and get the reviews that we've gotten and really be a real success, |
| 0:35.6 | and it would motivate people to make movies like this because you felt like you hit the jackpot. But that business model doesn't really happen |
| 0:41.0 | anymore. Aubrey Plaza and John Patton Ford talk very candidly about the struggle to make |
| 0:46.3 | Ford's well-received debut film, Emily the Criminal. But first, we banter. Stick around. It's |
| 0:52.0 | the business from KCRW. I am joined by my buddy in banter. Matt around. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:57.1 | I am joined by my buddy in banter. |
| 0:57.6 | Matt Bellany. |
| 0:58.1 | Hello, Matt. |
| 0:58.9 | Hi there. |
| 1:07.8 | So, as you know, in recent days, I got to go to Anaheim, partly to watch Disney tout some of its upcoming movies, but mostly because we were offered a brief 15-minute-on-the-record interview |
| 1:13.0 | with Bob Chapic. And Bob Chapic, the chief executive at Disney, who's had his ups and downs, as I noted |
| 1:18.5 | in the brief 15 minutes while running this company. He hasn't done a lot of press. So this was |
| 1:24.7 | kind of an occasion. He did a series of several interviews. He certainly, I will say, |
| 1:29.3 | and this was noted in a fun New York Times piece about the charm tour that Bob Chappick undertook at this |
| 1:34.7 | event, which is, I should say, D23, where 7,500 passionate Disney fans gather to hear about all this |
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