You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Will Mavity's interview with the director and co-writer for Biosphere, Mel Eslin.

None of this is logical.

We know that things happen that we cannot explain.

Do you?

If we want fast, we want slow, what are we feeling?

You pick.

Okay, so Mel, I mean, first and foremost, you've been producing for, what, 15 years now?

I mean, you've been involved, especially with a lot of these Duplas productions forever. So what kind of led you to decide, no, I'm going to actually direct this one this time?

The question is more, why? How did I end up producing? It was always, yeah, it was always the

planned writer-director from a very young age.

Like I feel like seven years old, I was like, this is what I want to do.

And then, you know, it was like the big believer in like do every job on set.

So when I direct, I have all that knowledge and experience.

And then somewhere along the way of doing every job, when I hit producing, I met

Mark Duplas and he was the big detour that at some point was like, come running my company.

And I suggest for a little bit.

And now it's been like 10 years since I started working with him.

And I was like, dude, we got to get back on track a little bit.

And he's always been super supportive.

And the plan was always Mel starts doing her own projects.

It just took me a really long time to make time for myself.

Wow. Well, now you have like the James Cameron syndrome going on, I guess, where you understand literally every aspect of production.

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