You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Giovanni Lago's interview,

the screenwriter for queer, Justin Karitsky's.

We're all parts of a tremendous hole.

A curse. There's no use fighting it. A curse.

There's no use fighting it.

The difficulty is to convince someone else he is really part of you.

You think he's queer?

I mean, it's nothing time with him.

I can't tell.

Well, could always just ask.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I want to talk to you without speaking.

Hello everyone, this is the Next Best Picture podcast, and today I am joined by the screenwriter of queer Justin Karitsky's.

Justin, thank you so much for stopping by today.

Thank you for having me. It's always fun to talk to you guys.

Big fan of your work. I love Challenger's a lot.

You know, coming off that, what I found so interesting is how well executed the screenplay is on a structural manner.

So jumping from Challenger to queer, a film that is constantly evolving the more it goes on.

And also, how does it feel in terms of transferring

from your original work and now handling an artist like William S. Burroughs who, you know,

you have the challenge of seeing it evolve in many ways as you're writing it and also making

a bit palatable. Burroughs's work is not, you know, for many, I would say.

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