Interview With "The Roses" Director Jay Roach

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

"The Roses" is a satirical black comedy film directed by Jay Roach from a screenplay by Tony McNamara that is based on the 1981 novel "The War of the Roses" by Warren Adler, and a remake of the 1989 Danny DeVito film starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. The new film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Andy Samberg, and Kate McKinnon, delivering highly comedic performances backed by the sharp wit of McNamara's screenplay. Roach was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from Searchlight Pictures. 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 are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director
0:04.7	for Verroses, Jay Roach.
0:07.0	You dear, I do anything.
0:09.6	I do believe that's true.
0:11.3	It really is.
0:14.1	Theo Rose, my favorite architect.
0:17.0	How's married life?
0:18.4	The kids are amazing.
0:19.5	We're going to the beach.
0:20.7	Right. Don't drown. Ivy, it's a monster success. Would you do a photo shoot from New York Magazine? Nude? I don't think so. Oh, we'll do it anyway. But you are still a failure. He got fired. Fired? I sensed trouble. How was your day? The neighbor's dog shat in the laundry. The kids have got knit together, my left eyes twitching. More champagne for me, please. If you need a shoulder or an inner thigh to lean run. What? I'm kidding. Jay Roach, I really appreciate you taking the time to talk with me about your latest film, The Roses. And thank you so much for being so accommodating with your time as well. I really appreciate it.
0:57.5	No worries. Glad to be here. Thanks for your interest.
1:00.2	Yeah, so I wanted to ask you about your interest, primarily with the original Danny DeVito film starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner.
1:08.9	Like, just what was your relationship like with that original film?
1:12.1	Did you originally see it in a theater?
1:13.7	Tell me about that.
1:15.0	Oh, yeah, I saw it in a theater in the 80s when it came out.
1:18.0	And always, you know, just howled watching it.
1:21.8	I've seen it a few times since then.
1:23.5	And I'm such a big Danny DeVito fan.
1:26.0	I got to work with Danny when he played mini-mee and Austin Powers
1:29.7	Three. And I love the guy. And he's worked with my editor. I've known him for a while. But, you know,
1:37.0	it was daunting thinking about remaking it just because it was so good and funny and pretty audacious for its time.
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