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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

Interview with Simone Biles Rising Documentary Director Katie Walsh

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

News, Sports News, Biles, Radio, Olympic, Simone, Podcast, Gymnastics, Douglas, Mckayla, Gymnast, Ncaa, Sports, Gymternet, Aly, Raisman, Maroney, Gabby

4.71.5K 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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