Interview With "Irena's Vow" Actress Sophie Nélisse

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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SIGN UP FOR REGAL UNLIMITED W/ PROMO CODE - REGALNBP24 - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/q4j9urzs "Irena's Vow" had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for Sophie Nélisse's performance as Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polish nurse who helped to shelter and protect Jewish people during the Holocaust by hiding them in the cellar of the home where she was employed as a housekeeper by Nazi officer Eduard Rügemer. Nélisse was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about her experience making the film, how it compares to her time working on "The Book Thief," who she has coming up next in her career, and more. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in select theaters from Quiver Distribution in the U.S. 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 star from the film Irene's Val, Sophie Melisse.
0:08.4	Do you know how one survives this sort of change? Destiny?
0:18.6	From now on, you'll be working to contribute to the German war effort.
0:22.6	Your name.
0:23.6	Irene Agut.
0:28.6	You will be in charge of supervising the Jews.
0:31.6	Your survival will depend on that.
0:34.6	I have until July 22nd to make sure that this entire sector is Jewfrey.
0:39.8	We have no place to go.
0:42.8	There's a place where I can hide you where no one would ever think of looking for you.
0:47.5	All right. I'm being joined right now, everyone here on the Next Best Picture podcast by Sophie Nalise to talk to me about her latest role in Irina's
0:56.2	Val. Sophie, how are you today? Good, how are you? Oh, I'm doing really well. Thank you so much.
1:02.6	I want to first start off by asking, this is a project, obviously, that is dealing with a real-life
1:08.4	person who did a really remarkable series of acts.
1:13.6	Can you tell me just a little bit about like the weight that one feels when you're taking
1:19.1	on a role such as that that has impacted so many lives and just for you as an actress,
1:25.4	like what's your mindset when you're approaching a role like that?
1:28.6	Yeah, there was definitely a lot of pressure, I would say, on my shoulders because I'd never done an autobiography on someone before.
1:39.2	And she's led such a tremendous, exceptional life that I just wanted to live up to the expectations,
1:45.6	knowing that her daughter was going to watch the movie and some of her friends.
1:49.8	And I just wanted to give her story justice.
1:53.5	And so I made sure to reassure myself that I'd done the most research as possible.
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