Episode 83 - Sean Baker
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2017
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Sean Baker is a writer/director known primarily for the Prince of Broadway, Tangerine, and, most recently, The Florida Project. In this week’s episode, Sam and Sean dive into his upbringing in New Jersey, the difficulty of making movies on a low-budget, and why he stands by the heavily debated ending of his latest project. http://talkeasypod.com/
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| 0:37.0 | I think there's something that happens during a film shoot in which there's just |
| 0:50.8 | adrenaline that is running for 35 days straight and suddenly when you thought you couldn't live a day without a nap |
| 0:58.0 | You can go 18 hours straight without ever blinking you know what I I mean? Like, it takes over. |
| 1:03.6 | And that time, something takes over. |
| 1:05.8 | And actually, I feel that your brain function |
| 1:08.5 | is probably working at like quadruple the amount. |
| 1:12.0 | When we were writing at night, I had to process what we had shot in the day and looking forward to. |
| 1:16.8 | You know, it was an insane time where and that's what that's the weird thing. It's like as |
| 1:21.2 | filmmakers we only have those 35 days like once every three years and it's weird because it's not like we're practicing our |
| 1:29.3 | livelihood on any given day except those was 35 days, you know. |
| 1:34.0 | And so it's a weird thing to do and I feel that it's just, |
| 1:38.0 | you're just, you know that you have to get through that time |
| 1:42.0 | and you just battle your way through it. |
| 1:44.0 | That was Sean Baker. I'm San Francisco. This is Talk Easy. |
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