Interview With The Writer/Director Of "Wendy," Benh Zeitlin

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Benh Zeitlin made his feature filmmaking debut 8 years ago with the indie sensation "Beasts Of The Southern Wild," which earned four Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. Since then, he's been hard at work on his follow up film "Wendy," which is a modern and grounded re-telling of the legend of Peter Pan from the perspective of the character Wendy. Benh was kind enough to talk us through his process of filmmaking, casting the child actors, why it took so long for his sophomore film and more! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT 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 writer and director of the film Wendy, Ben Zylo.
0:10.9	Remember the voice in your head?
0:15.7	The one that said, sneak away.
0:19.5	Crazy?
0:20.4	Wendy, wait!
0:22.6	Here is the place it came from.
0:25.6	So, we're on the mother.
0:33.6	You will never grow.
0:35.6	Never! Never!
0:43.3	So began the legend of Peter, the boy who would not grow up.
0:47.3	Want to fly? We can fly?
0:49.3	Really fly?
0:51.3	Fly!
0:53.3	Fly! Fly! Tell Mama I'm just staying a little longer.
1:05.0	Tell her I miss her and I love her.
1:11.6	Beware, children. You can leave yourself behind. You won't even know when it happened. This is where lost boys go when they're really lost.
1:34.3	All children grow up.
1:41.3	But some, the wild ones, the ones with a light in their eye.
1:48.8	Escape.
1:54.0	All right, everyone.
1:57.1	I am being joined here today by the co-writer, the director of the new film, Wendy. Ben,
2:05.0	Zaitland, the director of Beasts of the Southern Wild. Ben, how are you today? I'm great. I'm great.
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