Interview With "Scrapper" Director/Writer Charlotte Regan

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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"Scrapper" had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, where it received positive reviews for its writing, direction, performances, and chemistry between the two leads, Harris Dickinson and newcomer Lola Campbell, and won the World Dramatic Prize. Director/Writer Charlotte Regan was kind enough to spend a few minutes talking with us about her work on the film. Please take a moment to listen to the interview and check out the film, which is now playing at the IFC theater in NY and will open in LA on September 8th at The Nuart from Kino Lorber. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com For more about Regal Unlimited - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/937isfrg New subscribers can use code BACK2REG23 for 10% off of Regal Unlimited for the first 3 months 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 Emma Sassick's interview with the director and writer for scrapper, Charlotte Reagan.
0:08.2	Ali!
0:09.7	George?
0:10.7	You playing out.
0:14.4	Hi, that's my bike.
0:16.6	We were just making sure that all of these bikes were road safe.
0:21.8	Oh, yours isn't, by the way.
0:23.5	Thank you so much.
0:24.5	How are you today?
0:25.9	I'm good, thanks.
0:26.8	How are you?
0:27.3	I'm wonderful.
0:28.2	I'm so excited to talk to you about this movie because I watched it in January at the Sundance Film Festival.
0:35.3	And it is still one of my top favorite films that I've
0:39.3	seen from this year. It's just so incredibly sweet. Thank you so much. Of course. Anytime I get a
0:47.1	chance to speak with a filmmaker, I know it's an easy question, but I just have to know how something
0:51.9	like this came to mind for you. Was this a personal
0:55.1	tale that you got to tell or something that was just floating around in your mind? Yeah, it's really
1:03.2	terrible that I've not thought of like a better story, but I can never answer it better than saying
1:08.5	that I don't really remember because it was so long ago.
1:11.6	Like there's lots of the personal aspects so that, you know, I like wanted to do like a joyful
1:18.4	kind of working class story because that's like the world I remember growing up.
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