Ep. 234: Interview With 'Hidden Figures' Director Ted Melfi

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The Ringer's Sean Fennessey sits down with Ted Melfi to discuss the success of his latest film, 'Hidden Figures' (1:10), and how it came about (3:19), as well as the difficulties of making an entertaining movie about math (8:00). Melfi also shares what it's like working with Taraji P. Henson (18:27) and Kevin Costner (21:15), getting Pharrell to score his movie (29:20), and how he feels about the 'Hidden Fences' mishap (38:45). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Bill Simmons.
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0:32.1	Hello and welcome to a very special Channel 33 podcast.
0:45.0	My name is Sean Fennesey.
0:46.0	I'm the editor and chief of the ringer.
0:48.0	And over the course of the next few weeks, we're going to be having some conversations
0:51.3	with filmmakers, actors, other people involved in the movie industry in the run-up to award
0:55.9	season.
0:56.9	Today, I'm really excited to be joined by Ted Melfy, the writer-director of Hidden Figures,
1:01.6	a new movie about three women who played an integral role in the first space flight with
1:06.5	NASA.
1:07.5	Ted, thank you so much for joining me.
1:09.3	Thanks for having me.
1:10.7	You got some great news today.
1:12.5	You have the number one movie in the country.
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