Interview: Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Nyad)
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Oscar-winning directors of Free Solo had followed some of the most elite athletes in the world into some of the most forbidding climates imaginable — but they still found brand new challenges on their first narrative feature film, Nyad. Luckily, they had Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, and Rhys Ifans on their side.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the awards his and podcasts from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:05.0 | I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner. |
| 0:11.0 | And the Oscar goes to... |
| 0:13.0 | And the Oscar goes to... |
| 0:15.0 | The winner, it's a tie. |
| 0:19.0 | And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the telly, you never know. |
| 0:25.0 | Mom, I just want an Oscar! |
| 0:36.0 | I am Katie Rich. I'm here for today's interview episode with Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi Katie. |
| 0:41.0 | Rebecca, you caught up with Chai Vasarelli and Jimmy Chen, the directors of NiaD, |
| 0:46.0 | who every time we check in about them, you're like, yeah, they're in a new place, |
| 0:49.0 | they're doing a new Q&A. |
| 0:51.0 | They have made the leap from documentary film to narrative filmmaking |
| 0:54.0 | and are in a whole new world, even though they are Oscar winners already. |
| 0:58.0 | But I love that you get to keep checking in with them and see how this experience has been for them. |
| 1:02.0 | So I'm imagining this conversation was just as rewarding. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, I mean, we talked just a day before the film was going to start hitting theaters. |
| 1:11.0 | And I'm going to say they were tired, like they have been all over the country with this film, |
| 1:17.0 | you know, since Telly Ride. |
| 1:19.0 | And I think it's been exhausting for them, which is sort of ironic, |
| 1:22.0 | because their whole thing is like following around the most tireless, adventurous, |
| 1:27.0 | you know, adventures around the world. |
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