Interview With "Challengers" Screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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SIGN UP FOR REGAL UNLIMITED W/ PROMO CODE - REGALNBP24 - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/q4j9urzs "Challengers" was initially supposed to have its world premiere at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival before it was delayed to the spring of 2024 due to the 2023 Hollywood strikes. Now, Luca Guadagnino's latest is finally coming to theaters this weekend, starring Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, and Mike Faist. Screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about his inspiration for the film, some of the choices he made with the characters and narrative structure, his support for his wife, Celine Song, during her awards season run for "Past Lives," a tease for his next collaboration with Guadgnino on "Queer" starring Daniel Craig and more. Please be sure to check out the film, and be careful as there is one question (there's a warning before it's asked) during the interview, which is a spoiler. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com 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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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast and this is my interview with the screenwriter for challengers, Justin Koretskies.
0:08.1	You think that tennis is about expressing yourself, doing your thing.
0:11.7	You don't know what tennis is.
0:13.9	What is it?
0:17.6	Tashi Duncan.
0:18.6	She's in the other league.
0:20.3	You were incredible today.
0:21.6	Come on!
0:22.6	To have a fashion line, a foundation,
0:25.6	just gonna turn a whole family into a millionaire.
0:33.6	What are you gonna do now?
0:34.6	Unfortunately, my only skill in life is hitting a ball with a record. I want you to be my coach.
0:39.3	I want you to be my coach.
0:41.3	How often does this happen?
0:43.3	Going after the same girl?
0:45.3	Come here.
0:47.3	Which one of us?
0:49.3	How you doing, Justin?
0:50.3	I am so, so happy to be talking with you about Challenger's, a film that I know many of us ever since the Venice Bump had been eagerly anticipating getting released here.
1:01.5	I want to first start off by asking you, this is not based on any preexisting material.
1:06.1	Where did the original idea for this story come from for you?
1:10.3	I had not previously been that much of a sports fan or a tennis fan, and then in 2018,
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