We've always been very actor-oriented.

We love it.

And also I would say, too, like, the other thing is we're highly collaborative.

You know, the fact that Joe and I work as a team speaks to the fact that we love the process of collaboration in filmmaking.

So we extend that process of collaboration to everyone, our actors, our cinematographer, etc.

So we really treat everybody as fellow filmmakers

with us. Hello and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of

America. Today's episode takes us behind the scenes of director Anthony and Joe Russo's new drama,

Cherry. The film tells the story of Cherry, a college

dropout with only one solid thing in his life, his true love Emily, who drifted into becoming

an army medic in Iraq. After he returns from the war with post-traumatic stress disorder and

his drug addiction puts him into debt, Cherry resorts to becoming a serial bank robber. In addition to Cherry, the Russo Brothers' other directorial credits include the feature films,

Avengers Endgame, Avengers Infinity War, and the movies for television, The Council

of Dads, and Courtroom K. The Russo Brothers spoke with DGA past president Paris

Barclay about filming Cherry in front of a virtual

audience. Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation. Welcome, everybody. I'm here with at least

one of the Russo's. Oh, here, I have both of them together to talk about Cherry today. Guys, I was

devastated. I had that moment of silence when the film is done.

I watched it by myself on my own personal screen, and it wrecked me for a bit.

And I think part of the reason it wrecked me is because it was, you know, very much to me,

like the experience I had watching the deer hunter,

which is what came to mind after it, which was I really had nothing more to say, and I had

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