Interview With "Cassandro" Director/Writer Roger Ross Williams

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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"Cassandro" had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for Gael García Bernal's lead performance. Academy Award-winning documentarian director Roger Ross Williams ("Life Animated") made his narrative feature debut with this film and also received warm notices for his direction of an openly gay wrestler in the world of Lucha Libre wrestling. Ross Williams was kind enough to spend a few minutes talking with us about his work on the film, moving from making shorts and documentaries into narrative features, collaborating with García Bernal and global superstar Bad Bunny, and more. Please take a listen and be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Prime Video. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com For more about Regal Unlimited - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/937isfrg New subscribers can use code REGALNBP23 for 10% off of Regal Unlimited for the first 3 months Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Giovanni Logo's interview
0:35.4	with the writer and director for Cassandro, Roger Ross Williams.
0:40.8	My papa, introduced me to Lucha Libre.
0:43.0	Took me to a few matches.
0:44.7	You don't see him anymore?
0:51.1	You're a luchador?
0:52.0	Yes?
0:53.9	I'm my hos, you're so ascentos.
0:56.0	I've been doing real fights since a couple of years ago.
0:59.0	They always cast us around.
1:01.0	They don't see anything else.
1:07.0	You ever thought about being an exotico?
1:10.0	Hello, everyone. This is the next best picture podcast i'm giopani
1:14.3	lago and i'm joined by the director of cassandro roger wasse williams roger thank you for joining me today
1:20.9	way to be here thank you for having me well i was actually very unfamiliar with the story. While I was watching it at a certain
1:28.9	point, I was like, oh, wow, this is, this is actually real. This is a biopic. It's so different
1:34.9	from traditional biopics I usually see, especially produced in Hollywood. And I'm just curious,
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