Interview: Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The German director on his film's historic nine Oscar nominations, the literal slogging through the mud required to make his World War I drama, and why he cast his lead actor, Felix Kammerer, because "he doesn't look like a hero."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:05.0 | It's such an honor to present this next award. |
| 0:08.0 | And here are the nominees. |
| 0:09.0 | And the Oscar goes to. |
| 0:12.0 | And the Oscar goes to. |
| 0:14.0 | And I can't deny the fact that you like me. |
| 0:17.0 | Right now, you like me. |
| 0:19.0 | On the King of Worlds! |
| 0:21.0 | There's a mistake. |
| 0:23.0 | Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Katie Rich, and I'm here for this interview episode with Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi, Katie. |
| 0:41.0 | Rebecca, you and I, and our Little Gold Men colleagues, |
| 0:44.0 | kind of all clocked in December that all quite on the Western Front was emerging |
| 0:48.0 | as a huge potential contender. |
| 0:50.0 | It landed on a bunch of short lists, then it got a bunch of after nominations, |
| 0:52.0 | and then it turned out to be a huge Oscar contender. |
| 0:55.0 | It got a ton of nominations on nominations morning, |
| 0:57.0 | and you got to talk to a director, Edward Berger, about how his huge German wore a bit, |
| 1:02.0 | kind of snuck out of nowhere to be this huge player. |
| 1:04.0 | What'd you learn about that? |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, it got nine nominations. |
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