Death, Sex & Money - Why the Creators of "Everything Everywhere All At Once" Treat Their Partnership Like a Marriage
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as Daniels, on their friendship, learning to play to their strengths, and making their hit film Everything Everywhere All At Once.
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| 0:00.0 | I always say I watch movies about marriage |
| 0:02.1 | and I'm like, oh, yes, reminds me of Dan, you know. |
| 0:05.9 | Like what movie reminds you of your relationship? |
| 0:08.3 | Yeah, scenes from a marriage. |
| 0:09.4 | No, I haven't seen that, actually. |
| 0:11.1 | A marriage story? |
| 0:11.9 | A marriage story, yeah. |
| 0:13.0 | Am I Adam Driver or you? |
| 0:14.9 | No, you're Scarletor Hansen. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm the hero that the audience likes. |
| 0:21.0 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:25.9 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm Anna a sale. |
| 0:50.6 | Daniels are a filmmaker duo made up of yes, two men named Daniel, Daniel Shinerd, and Daniel Kwan, who also goes by Dan. |
| 0:56.2 | They are the writers and directors of the movie Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, a very strange and moving film about the metaverse and generational trauma that also |
| 1:03.6 | may be the first award season darling that has not won, but a few dildo gags. The story follows Evelyn Wang, played by Michelle Yeo, |
| 1:13.6 | as she tries to save the world |
| 1:15.8 | while being audited by an IRS agent, |
| 1:18.8 | played by Jamie Lee Curtis. |
| 1:20.2 | Nothing but a stack of receipts I can trace the ups and downs of your lives. |
| 1:28.1 | And it doesn't not look good. |
| 1:31.6 | It does not look good. |
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