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Channels with Peter Kafka

How The Safdie Bros. landed Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Filmmakers Josh & Benny Safdie join Recode’s Peter Kafka for a great discussion on their early path to making movies and why Adam Sandler originally turned down the part of Howard in their latest movie Uncut Gems. Featuring: Josh & Benny Safdie (@JOSH_BENNY) writers and directors of Uncut Gems Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me. I'm not at Vox headquarters in New York City.

2:54.1

I'm like four blocks north in a Trump building. You guys know this is a Trump building? I did not. It's a Trump building. I'm with Ben, Benny, and Josh Safty. They're directors and creators of uncut gems, which I think you probably heard about at this point, because you guys have been doing endless promotion. So thank you for including me on your tour. You may also know this is the Adam Sandler isn't funny in this movie movie. But he's pretty funny. He is very funny in this movie. Kevin Garnett's in this movie. Johnny's nodding. He knows he's funny. It's great. If you haven't seen it, go see it. It's entertaining. Can we call it fun? Absolutely. It's fun, okay. It's a wild way. I mean, I spend 10 years on something, it better be fun. It better be fun to make, fun to watch for me, and everything that I look for in entertainment. Okay, so you have a very specific idea of entertainment thing. Because this is also described as like a heart attack of a movie, a two-hour panic attack. It makes it feel alive. It's like a defibrillator. I think of it as the part of the roller coaster where you're going up. Okay. Just for about two hours of that. Something's going to happen and it keeps going. And you guys, is it fair to say that's sort of a trademark of the kind of movies you make. I guess I don't know. You know what I was trying to talk to Ronne Stein about this.

3:08.1

Sox, you talked to him about this morning. We're now, as we've made at least the last two and a half, actually, heaven knows what, as fall. I mean, Daddy Long Legs is that as well. I remember when we showed Daddy Longlegs to this French distributor.

3:09.4

So to your first feature, right? This is our first feature, yeah.

3:11.5

There's a part in the movie where Ronnie's character basically administers some sleeping medicine to his kids so that they sleep a little later in the next day.

3:20.9

Understandable?

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And terrible.

3:22.7

And it's that he leaves the apartment to go do stuff while there's sleep.

3:26.5

But this French distributor guy, we were like, you know, it was a French, the French paid

3:30.0

for that movie, half paid for that movie.

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