Interview With "The Bikeriders" Director/Writer Jeff Nichols

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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"The Bikeriders" had its world premiere at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival, where it was initially supposed to be released in theaters by 20th Century Studios. A few months later, the distribution was passed over to Focus Features, and now, almost a full year later and eight years since the release of his last feature film, we finally have a new movie from writer/director Jeff Nichols. One of the most accomplished and beloved storytellers working today, Nichols always manages to find the humanity in his characters as he plunges them into depths of moral complexity set against the backdrop of rural areas and here does so yet again with his biggest budget and cast to date. Making his debut on the Next Best Picture Podcast, Nichols was kind enough to talk with us about his latest film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will be released in theaters this weekend from Focus Features. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director and writer for the bike riders, Jeff Nichols.
0:08.1	I've been thinking I can't run this club forever.
0:16.4	I built this for nothing. This is our family.
0:24.6	You and me, kid?
0:29.6	From the beginning?
0:31.6	Yes, please.
0:36.6	I was the golden age of bike riders.
0:38.3	I never felt so out of place in all my life.
0:41.3	That's when I saw him for the first time.
0:44.3	I took my breath away.
0:46.3	I'm Benny.
0:50.3	Five weeks later, I married him.
0:52.3	I thought I could change him, you know?
0:57.1	Not to be different, but to be, I don't know, like he's wild.
1:02.5	Hey, I told you to take that jacket off.
1:05.7	You'd have to kill me to get this jacket off.
1:08.0	All right, everyone, I'm being joined right now by the writer and director for the film The Bike Riders, Jeff Nichols. Jeff, I've been wanting to talk to you for so long. Huge fan of all your films. I was telling your publicists before, I don't think you've ever made a bad film, so this is quite a thrill for me to be speaking with you, sir. Thank you. I'm flattered by you saying that.
1:29.1	Yeah, so I saw the bike riders back at its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival,
1:33.7	which feels like it was eons ago at this point.
1:37.1	It's been your largest gap between projects since the release of loving.
1:42.2	And, you know, it experienced obviously certain delays given everything that
1:46.2	was happening in Hollywood and then passing on to another studio can you just tell me as you get to
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