You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Will Mavity's interview with the editor of The Farewell, Matt Friedman.

Hello, everybody, and you're listening to another episode of the Next Best Picture Podcast.

I am your host, Will Mavity, and I have with us editor Matt Friedman.

Matt, how are you?

Well, thank you for having me on, Will.

We're more than happy to.

So everyone has been talking about the farewell all summer. It was really the

lone Sundance narrative film that actually took off at the box office. So you should be feeling

pretty happy about that, I'm sure. Yeah, it's very, it's very exciting. And, you know, happy on a level two is I, I went to see it at the arc light here in Hollywood.

Because prior to it coming out, I had never seen it with a real, you know, an audience of real people.

And as the movie ended, just some guy, I didn know him sitting behind us said to turn to his friend and said, well, I'm going to go call my grandma.

And that, you know, really more than anything, that kind of, knowing that it's getting that kind of response and is making human connections

that's exactly what lulu wanted from the movie so that we have helped facilitate that

is beyond our dreams well i saw it twice and both times i heard quite a few sniffles throughout

the theater and i don't think it was because

of the flu so good good I love making people cry and I can I'm one of the few occupations where

I can say that and not be mean yeah exactly you're not a preschool teacher so that's a good thing to

hear correct so how did you go, because

much of your background has been editing films, mainstream comedies, which I love, by the way,

like John Tucker Must Die and the scary movie series. How did you end up working with Lulu on

something that's pretty serious and weighty and pretty different from a lot of

your previous projects? Well, there's a two-prong answer to that. So I started my career, like you

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