Bo Burnham’s ‘Eighth Grade’ Captures the Experience of Middle School and Right Now | The Big Picture (Ep. 502)

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🗓️ 20 July 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Ringer editor-in-chief Sean Fennessey sits down with comedian and first-time filmmaker Bo Burnham and actress Elsie Fisher to discuss ‘Eighth Grade,’ their perceptive film about the cringeworthy experience of middle school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I kind of really just wanted to make a movie about now.
0:02.4	Like, I did not set out to make a movie about young people.
0:04.4	I just set out to make a movie about how it was feeling
0:06.6	and how the current culture feels to me.
0:08.8	And then it felt like, you know what?
0:10.2	The culture in the moment, and I think it's being
0:13.1	most purely experienced by kids.
0:20.6	I'm Sean Fantasy, Editor-in-Chief of The Ringer,
0:22.6	and this is the big picture, a conversation show
0:24.5	with some of the most interesting filmmakers
0:26.4	and actors in the world.
0:28.9	Remember Eighth Grade?
0:30.8	Awkward, insecure, completely aimless.
0:34.3	Bo Burnham remembers that too.
0:36.1	It's changed in some ways since we were kids,
0:37.8	but not as many as you might think.
0:39.6	The Stand-Up comedian Bo has a new movie.
0:41.7	It's his first as writer-director,
0:43.1	and it really captures the feeling
0:44.4	with a perceptive and empathetic style.
0:47.0	The single biggest reason for this is LC Fisher,
0:49.7	the preternaturally gifted 15-year-old lead of the movie.
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