You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview with the director for the only girl in the orchestra, Molly O'Brien.

Wow. I bet you my father's had this. Probably. Because he seemed to know all about you.

Oh dear. Orn O'Brien. This is painful. The newest member of the New York Philharmonic Scurried into Philharmonic Hall one rainy night and ignoring the musicians' locker room

got dressed in a washroom.

Miss O'Brien, who is the daughter of old-time Western star George O'Brien and actress

Marguerite Churchill, may be the best woman bassist in the world.

To a man they say, Orrin is one of the boys. Only Orrin is one of the girls.

The only girl, in fact, in the 104-member orchestra, a situation unique at the Philharmonics,

so there is yet no place for her to dress.

Molly, thank you so much for chatting with me about the only girl in the orchestra.

First of all, of course, congratulations on your Oscar nomination.

Were you watching the nominations live? How did you find out?

Thank you, Daniel. It's a pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me on.

That was a really heady moment. So I was in my apartment in Brooklyn with my 18-year-old daughter, my husband, and my chihuahua, and I was zooming with our producer Lisa Remington,

who was in Park City.

It was the day before Sundance, and she was already there.

And so, you know, we were on a Zoom, and then I had another screenup with live stream for the nomination broadcast. And Lisa was getting the stream from Los Angeles a full category ahead of us in New York.

So she went like this.

And when she did that, I knew, but I knew a good 30 seconds beforehand that we had been nominated because of her face.

So it was a disoriented and strange way to find out. But,

I mean, what a thrill, obviously. It was a great, great morning. That's amazing. Amazing.

Well, normally I would start by asking the director of a documentary how you got connected to this

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