Interview With "Mussolini: Son Of The Century" Director Joe Wright

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

"Mussolini: Son of the Century" is a biographical historical drama television series directed by Joe Wright, based on the 2018 novel "M: Son of the Century" by Antonio Scurati. Starring Luca Marinelli as Benito Mussolini, the series centers on Mussolini's early political career in the 1920s. It premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival to positive reviews for its direction, score, and Marinelli's performance. Wright was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his experience working on the series, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the series, which is now available to stream in full on MUBI. 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 Will Mavity's interview with the director of the television series Mussolini, son of the century.
0:10.1	Joe Wright.
0:10.9	Today, nasse the fascism.
0:15.2	A creature beautiful,
0:17.6	made of ideals, of changement that conquistar millions of
0:21.6	of the world.
0:22.6	I'm sure also
0:23.6	the most
0:25.6	Seguidem.
0:26.6	In epoca is finished.
0:29.6	The world,
0:31.6	how it was
0:32.6	it wasn't
0:33.6	not functioned
0:34.6	yet
0:35.6	We have
0:36.6	to a partito There we go.
0:40.3	There we go.
0:41.3	Okay.
0:42.3	Joe, thank you for coming back on.
0:46.3	This one's going to be great.
0:48.3	Okay, so this is the next Best Picture podcast,
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