Interview With "Plainclothes" Stars Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey & Filmmaker Carmen Emmi

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

"Plainclothes" is an independent romantic thriller drama film directed by Carmen Emmi and starring Russell Tovey, Tom Blyth, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, Amy Forsyth, and John Bedford Lloyd. It premiered earlier this year at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its performances, '90s aesthetic, and direction from Emmi. It went on to win the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast. Emmi, Tovey, and Blyth were all kind enough to spend time speaking with us about their work and experiences making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will open in theaters from Magnolia Pictures on September 19th. 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 Dan Baer's interview with the director and writer for playing clothes, Carmen Emmy, and the film stars Russell Tovey and Tom Blight.
0:10.4	We have a rule on this detail. No words and no entering the stall.
0:16.8	This guy I just directed with my eyes.
0:23.6	Please be! This guy I just directed with my eyes. Please, please.
0:24.6	What did I do?
0:25.6	Why, why under arrest?
0:29.6	You gotta introduce somebody new to my nephew here.
0:32.6	Okay, so what's your type? Who are you in?
0:34.6	I don't really have a type. Hey. Hey. I think you drop.
0:38.3	I think you dropped this.
0:57.0	Hello?
0:58.0	Thoughts you'd never go back. Can I touch you?
1:13.6	Can I touch you?
1:18.6	Blank Ones for no toys for you?
1:21.6	Yes.
1:24.6	Hello everyone and welcome to the next best Picture Podcast where we are talking with Carmen
1:31.5	Emmy, Tom Blythe, and Russell Tovey, the writer-director and stars of plain clothes.
1:37.5	Thank you so much for joining us today, gentlemen.
1:39.5	Thanks for having us.
1:40.5	I want to start with Carmen.
1:45.0	You know, this film captures the time and place of this 90s of State New York so well,
1:52.0	not just in aesthetics, but in the feeling that you create in these places.
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