Interview With "Hurry Up Tomorrow" Filmmaker Trey Edward Shults

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

"Hurry Up Tomorrow" is the new film from Trey Edward Shults, the filmmaker behind films such as "Krisha," "It Comes At Night" and "Waves." The film acts as a companion piece to Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye's sixth studio album of the same name, which was produced in conjunction with the film. It stars Tesfaye as a fictionalized version of himself, an insomniac musician on the verge of a mental breakdown who is pulled into an existential odyssey by a mysterious stranger, with actors Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan also starring. Shults was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will open in theaters on May 16th from Lionsgate. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... 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 and listen to this podcast ad-free 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 director and writer for Hurry Up Tomorrow, Trey Edward Schultz.
0:09.0	Death is nothing at all.
0:16.0	It does not kill me.
0:19.0	Everything remains exactly how it was.
0:25.6	Whatever we emerge with each other,
0:28.6	that we are still.
0:35.6	Call me by the old familiar baby.
0:43.6	Trey, it is so good to see you, man.
0:47.3	I haven't seen you in so long.
0:48.5	Good to see you again, buddy.
0:49.5	It's been a minute.
0:50.4	How you been?
0:51.0	It really has been.
0:52.0	Seriously.
0:53.1	I know this has been in development for quite
0:56.1	some time here. And I think the thing that's like most surprising to me about hurry up tomorrow is
1:00.1	finding out that the album itself was more so inspired by the film, not the other way around. Can you
1:07.5	just tell me a bit about like how those two projects informed each other?
1:12.2	Yeah, it was it was kind of beautiful and effortless. I had a meeting with Abel. I didn't know what.
1:18.3	I definitely didn't think my next movie would be this movie with Abel at that time. But we like really
1:23.3	hit it off. I got really inspired for the first time in a minute. Like honestly, after waves,
1:28.1	I was kind of beat up a bit and like not inspired. I didn't even want to watch movies. I was just
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