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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Episode 90 - Chloé Zhao

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Society & Culture

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

After making the rounds on the festival circuit for nearly a year, director Chloé Zhao's sophomore feature, The Rider, is finally in theaters. Shot on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the film follows a cowboy who, after a serious injury, is forced to reconcile with a future that might not involve horseback riding. According to Chloé, a Chinese filmmaker who attended NYU before debuting with Songs My Brother Taught Me, the film is a meditation during a time when audiences have trouble sitting still. This is one of the dozens of fascinating points she casually drops on Sam during this week's episode, during which the two talk about everything from working with Spike Lee to Chloé's fanfic-writing secret identity to the surprisingly freeing feeling of hitting rock bottom. http://talkeasypod.com/ 

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:07.0

I don't have. I don't have another reality at that time. I was so immersed in making this

0:19.0

I is hard to explain I did not have I have not really taxed my mother back. I don't have my best friend in New York, so I try and decide it's over the friendship of it because you never talked to us and it was extreme. So when your whole reality is to move to this place called Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and you're there to make a film you just have to do it because otherwise you have to start over your life.

0:50.0

That was Chloe Jo, Jow, I'm Francisco, and this is Talk Easy.

0:55.0

Welcome to the show. So, Director Chloe Joe Jo has had many lives in many different places. She was born and raised in Beijing, did high school in London, then

1:26.3

she moved to America and went to a college in Massachusetts eventually ending up at a

1:31.9

graduate program at NYU.

1:34.4

Now, after the success of her debut film songs my brother taught me,

1:39.9

she's back with a feature called The Rider.

1:42.4

The film opens with bad news. She's back with a feature called The Rider.

1:43.0

The film opens with bad news when Brady, a young Laconic cowboy,

1:48.0

is told he can no longer compete in the rodeo circuit.

1:51.0

Here's a bit from the trailer. No more riding, no more rodeos. If you don't stop,

1:57.6

your seizures are going to get worse. I had to sell Gus Brady.

2:05.0

I can't sell him Gus.

2:07.0

It's not like you can ride anymore.

2:09.0

You seen Lane Lane?

2:14.8

You see Lane? Remember when he went three for three in a cool junction?

2:20.8

You want it?

2:21.8

Yeah, that was a good night for Lane. There you go. Sometimes dreams

2:29.1

aren't meant to be. Who's this? That's Apollo. Wow that's Apollo. Wow that's amazing. A horse that never had nobody on his back before.

2:42.0

Where are you going with that?

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