Interview: Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) and Baz Luhrmann (Elvis)
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Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Last spring, two directors traveled to CinemaCon in Las Vegas to convince movie theater owners that, after two years of pandemic disaster, they had made the movies that could save theaters. Turns out, they were both right. Katey Rich talks to Joseph Kosinski, who teamed up with star Tom Cruise and producer Jerry Bruckheimer to expand the legacy of Top Gun, and Baz Luhrmann, who says it's his "lot in life" to tackle subjects that other people think are dated, or even cheesy — but every time, he sells them on it anyway.
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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. |
| 0:10.0 | 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 right now. |
| 0:18.0 | You like me. |
| 0:20.0 | On the King of the World! |
| 0:22.0 | There's a mistake. |
| 0:24.0 | Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Katie Rich and I'm here by myself today for our interview episode, The Last, |
| 0:40.0 | before Oscar nomination voting kicks off. |
| 0:42.0 | And I got to talk to two directors of two of the biggest movies of the year |
| 0:46.0 | that really could not be more different, |
| 0:48.0 | which is a part of what made it such a pleasure to talk to both of them. |
| 0:51.0 | So first, let's hear from Joseph Kaczynski. |
| 0:54.0 | He's the director of Top Gun Maverick, |
| 0:56.0 | which you certainly know is one of the biggest hits of 2022. |
| 1:00.0 | A long-awaited sequel to Top Gun that many people, Top Crew seemingly included, |
| 1:04.0 | maybe never thought was actually going to happen. |
| 1:06.0 | He's talked about how he had to pitch Tom Cruise on even making Maverick. |
| 1:10.0 | And Tom Cruise was really kind of a partner in making it and even talking to him |
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