Interview With "The Amateur" Director James Hawes

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

"The Amateur" is a new American vigilante action spy thriller film directed by James Hawes ("One Life" & "Slow Horses") and written by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli, based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Robert Littell which was previously adapted into a Canadian film that same year. It stars Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Adrian Martinez, Danny Sapani, and Laurence Fishburne. Hawes was kind enough to speak with me about his work on the film, which you can listen to or watch below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will open in theaters everywhere from 20th Century Studios on April 11th. Please be aware there are SPOILERS in this conversation. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... 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 and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director of the show.
0:06.6	James Coleman.
0:07.9	Do you are looking at you for game spoilers?
0:10.8	I want to find and kill the people who murdered my wife.
0:13.6	This is a joke, right?
0:16.3	Take it.
0:17.1	Take it.
0:17.6	Point it at my chest.
0:18.8	Do it now!
0:19.6	You can't do what I do no matter how much I train you.
0:21.6	You're just not a killer, Charlie.
0:23.6	You're just a nerdy fellow.
0:25.6	It works on computers.
0:27.6	Do you account for the things good at?
0:30.6	You held a gun to my wife's head.
0:33.6	This remote controls a device decompressing the glass beneath you.
0:38.3	You have the wrong person?
0:40.3	No. I have exactly the right person.
0:43.3	This ends here.
0:56.1	Are you done?
0:58.0	No, I want them all.
1:00.5	You recognize her?
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