You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview with the editor for Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker, Mary Ann Brandon.

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This is Daniel Howitt, and I'm here with Marianne Brandon, editor of big movies like Star Trek, Super 8, Star Wars, The Force Awakens, and now Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker.

Marian, thanks so much for joining me this morning.

Happy to be here. Thank you.

So we're talking on Monday, December 23rd, opening weekend just wrapped up for the Rise of Skywalker here in America.

So many artists talk about never feeling like their work is truly finished.

Like they always want to tweak more or do something more all the way up until it's taken

out of their hands.

Do you resonate with that?

How do you

feel now that your film is out in the world? Well, I think that's probably true. I think,

you know, a little distance gives a lot of perspective. I think we worked really hard on

the Force Awakens, the Rise of Skywalker.

And I would say, you know, I'm not sure there's given more time.

I'm pretty happy with the film.

So I don't have those kind of questions, really.

Although there is a question that people keep asking me that in retrospect, I thought we answered, but I guess it wasn't, it was what was Finn,

have you seen the film? Yes, yes, I have. It was what did Finn want to call away when they

were in the sinking sands?

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