Interview with Simone Biles Rising Documentary Director Katie Walsh
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Emmy winnig director, Katie Walsh talks about
- Deciding what to show and dicusss about the abuse that triggered Simone's twisties
- The waffles and hair braiding logistics
- Why Kerri Strug did not appear in the movie
- How they will film and with what level of access at the Olympics in Paris
- When the next two episodes are coming out and more!
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| 0:00.0 | I thought about you too and then like the community as a whole a lot when making this film because it's hard to make a film that is both satisfying to like the gym nerds and also the general audience. |
| 0:13.6 | And I, you know, I really tried to walk that line |
| 0:17.1 | so that there's a little something for everyone. |
| 0:19.5 | So I'm grateful for your whole community that I'm a part of and listen to this show all the time and I'm glad that everyone's enjoying the movie. |
| 0:28.0 | This is a follow-up discussion with Katie Walsh, the director of Simone Biles, |
| 0:33.0 | rising the documentary that's on Netflix right now. |
| 0:35.8 | And so she listened to our review earlier this week, |
| 0:39.4 | and now she's responding to our comments and questions |
| 0:42.0 | from that earlier podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | Hi everybody welcome to Behind the Scenes. |
| 0:47.0 | Today we have a very, very special guest. |
| 0:50.0 | We are joined by Katie Walsh, the director of both Simone documentaries. |
| 0:55.2 | Katie, thank you for joining us. |
| 0:56.8 | So happy to be here. |
| 0:58.7 | I've been doing a lot of interviews, but I think I've been most excited about this one |
| 1:02.4 | because I feel like you guys are my people and I'm |
| 1:05.1 | so happy to just like talk with you about this and like really talk about it. |
| 1:08.8 | I'm so glad. |
| 1:10.3 | So if you're new to behind the scenes, this show that we do every Friday at New Pacific, or we do it live competitions like this week coming up. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm leaving for Paris on Sunday, and we might do a live after men's podium training. |
| 1:23.4 | It depends. |
| 1:24.0 | There might be like a lot of news to catch up with, |
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