Interview With "40 Acres" Star Danielle Deadwyler & Filmmaker R. T. Thorne

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

"40 Acres" had its world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for Danielle Deadwyler's performance, the tension and action created by R.T. Thorne, and the supporting performances by the rest of the cast, including Michael Greyeyes. The film follows a family of African American descendants who settled in rural Canada in 1875, after the American Civil War, and are now fighting for their survival amid a post-apocalyptic world two hundred years later. Thorne and Deadwyler were both kind enough to speak with us about their work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is scheduled to be released in theaters by Magnolia Pictures on July 2nd, 2025. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:12.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Emma Sassick's interview with the star of the film 40 Acres,
0:23.2	Daniel Deadweiler, and the director and writer R. T. Thorne.
0:27.3	I know I've been hard on you.
0:29.5	It takes hard work to survive.
0:32.8	Let's go.
0:34.5	I've got the 24th and Freeman Lines.
0:37.4	You copy?
0:38.3	Ain't nobody pushing the seed through the soil, is the...
0:42.3	Oh, ma'am.
0:44.3	Are there any others like us?
0:47.3	Nobody else out there like us.
0:50.3	Freeman One, do you copy?
0:53.3	We don't need nothing and nobody.
0:56.0	Relo.
0:57.0	Some work now.
1:00.0	Yes, when we're dead.
1:02.0	Yes, come on.
1:04.0	Augusta 24 and Freeman one.
1:06.0	You copy.
1:08.0	Afternoon, Augusta. You've heard about the attacks by now?
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