For his first film, Garth Davis embraced the odyssey of 'Lion'
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Filmmaker Garth Davis spent years making commercials in Australia before co-directing Top of the Lake with Jane Campion. For his feature film debut, Lion, he's taken on the true story of a boy in India who accidentally gets separated from his family and ends up in Tasmania. He tells us how he came to be at the helm of the film and about casting a five-year old in India and teaching him English along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.1 | We rehearse and kind of play different scenes where I can just kind of test their boundaries |
| 0:09.9 | and see what the limits are. So yeah, I put him through, it was probably about four to five |
| 0:14.2 | hours of extensive acting sessions in this house. It was fantastic. |
| 0:20.1 | Even before director Garth Davis had a finished |
| 0:22.4 | script for the new film Lion, based on the true story of a man who searches for his long-lost |
| 0:27.4 | family in India, he heard from Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel, who really wanted to play |
| 0:33.0 | the lead. Davis needed to be convinced. A first-time feature director, Davis talks about seeing |
| 0:39.1 | thousands of Indian schoolchildren before finding the five-year-old who would play the younger |
| 0:44.2 | version of Patel's character. But first on the news banter, as the award season takes shape, |
| 0:49.7 | when does bad behavior take a toll? Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my colleague in |
| 1:01.9 | banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So the awards season, |
| 1:06.9 | and we're going to talk about it a little more. It's starting to take shape. We've had various groups way in. I think it's clear that La La Land is probably in the front position. Moonlight, though, very strong, very strong contender. And Manchester by the sea, you can't count it out at this point. Those seem to me to be the top three. I don't know if you agree. I think that's probably |
| 1:28.3 | right from all the different indicators that you've seen so far. The Golden Globes nominations |
| 1:33.1 | were interesting. Those three movies were figured prominently in them. But to me, the big thing that |
| 1:37.7 | stood out was the Mel Gibson nomination for Best Director and Hacksaw Ridge, a nomination for |
| 1:43.6 | Best Picture. |
| 1:44.9 | And that raises this whole issue of, you know, Mel Gibson is back. |
| 1:48.3 | He was in the proverbial director jail for many years based on his... |
| 1:52.5 | A dungeon, a deep, dark dungeon. |
| 1:54.6 | Based on his anti-Semitic comments that he made, the misogynistic comments. |
| 1:58.9 | He had a downward spiral there for a while, and he did |
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