Interview With "C'mon C'mon" Director/Writer, Mike Mills

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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"C'mon C'mon" is the fourth feature film from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Mike Mills, and it had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, where it garnered positive notices for virtually every aspect, including its writing, acting, cinematography, and score. Mike Mills was kind enough to take some time to talk with us about each of these individual elements and how they all added up to create one of the year's best films. Take a listen down below and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the writer and director for Come On Come On, Mike Mills.
0:08.3	To visit planet Earth, you will have to be born as a human child.
0:13.0	At first, you'll have to learn to use your new body.
0:17.3	To move your arms and legs, you will learn to walk and run, to use your hands, to make sounds, and form words.
0:28.6	There will be so much for you to learn, and so much for you to feel, sadness, joy, disappointment, and wonder. You will grow up, travel, and work. Over the years, you will try to make sense of that happy, sad, full, always shifting life you're in.
1:02.0	And when the time comes to return to a star, it may be hard to say goodbye to that strangely beautiful world.
1:13.1	Damn this book.
1:15.4	You're crying.
1:16.4	No, I'm not.
1:17.3	Yes, you are.
1:20.0	You're definitely crumb.
1:21.7	Say you're crap.
1:24.9	Mike, thank you so much for taking a time to chat with me today about your latest film,
1:29.5	Come On, Come On, Come On. How are you doing today?
1:31.8	I'm good. We had our L.A. premiere last night in our L.A. dance party.
1:36.7	So I'm a little sore and a little hungover, but it's working so far for the interviews.
1:42.8	When I was playing at New York Film Fest, I was at the after party for that as well,
1:47.3	and I saw that you were a killer on that dance floor.
1:50.4	I know exactly what you're referring to.
1:54.5	Me and Gabby and Andrea Longacre White, our producer,
1:59.9	we love to dance and moms. Everyone, and so we,
2:04.6	it's become sort of a thing for us. Love that, love that. Yeah. Yeah. So in talking about
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