You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Dan Baer's interview with the director and co-writer for the film Skin Care, Austin Peters.

Joining us in the studio today is the skincare queen. Hope, Goldman.

You really are the American dream.

Reputation is everything in this business.

Your career is legendary, and your story is inspiring as hell.

Beauty is a cut-throw business.

Business is a control business.

Austin Peters, writer and director of skincare, very excited to speak to you today.

You know, this film opens with an interesting line

of text that says it is a fictional story inspired by true events. So I'm curious what exactly

inspired you to write this story. The writers brought me the script early on before we started

collaborating on it.

And I think that they and were attracted to the same things about it that I was attracted to,

you know, which is that it was this sort of chaotic sunshine noir that involved things

spiraling out of control and people getting in over their head.

And it reminded us of a lot of the movies that we love

and a lot of the sort of material that has inspired us.

And we love the setting of Los Angeles,

which is where I was born and raised.

So I think all of those things really, really pulled me into it.

I hope you don't think I'm intruding on your territory.

Why would you lease to another facialist?

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