You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director for Firebrand, Karim An News.

In a rotten, blood-soaked island kingdom, there once was a queen by the name of Catherine Parr.

She was the sixth wife of the vengeful King Henry VIII.

I won't be patron to heretics.

He will kill me like he did my mother.

He would never do that to you. Do you hear me?

The five wives who came before her all met untimely ends.

But Catherine's fate was to change the kingdom forever.

Kareem, thank you so much for joining me here to talk about your latest film

Firebrand.

I'm very excited to speak to you about this, as it's one of my favorite genres that is

out there.

The historical epic period costume drama.

First of all, how are you?

I know you just had another film premiere at Cannes recently.

We're talking about your Cannes title from last year.

You're very busy.

I am busy, but I know I love what I do, and I'm very fortunate to be able to be making films, so I'm happy. Good. I'm very happy. That's great to hear. I was at both Cannes Film Festivals these back-to-back years, so I saw. Did you go to the premiere of Montel Destino? I did. Look at you, and then you saw the premiere of Firebrand. All right. Okay. All right. Cool. Okay. Very good to know.

And as somebody who, uh, as somebody who loves like palace intrigue and high stakes drama, uh, in a Game of Thrones, like sort of style, if you will. Like I, I really soaked in everything I could with

firebrand. Oh, that's wonderful. Great,

great, great. Thank you. Yeah, not a problem. I want to first start off by asking how did the

material find its way over to you. This was your first directorial effort in the English language.

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