Interview With "Widows" Editor, Joe Walker

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Over the last decade, Joe Walker has emerged as one of the most exciting editors in Hollywood. Collaborating closely with directors Denis Villeneuve ("Sicario," "Arrival" & "Blade Runner 2049") and Steve McQueen ("Hunger," Shame" & "12 Years A Slave"), Walker has amassed three Academy Award nominations and now his latest work with Steve McQueen ("Widows") is opening this weekend to great critical acclaim and even more Oscar buzz attached to it. Joe Walker was kind enough to sit down with us here at Next Best Picture and discuss his work on Steven McQueen's latest, talking about his relationship with the director, the evolution of their work together from small independent features to big budget studio action films and more! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - @nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-…d1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT 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 our interview with the Academy Award-nominated editor of the film Widows, Joe LaValle.
0:11.0	What has happened in the world that normal now passes as excellence?
0:23.6	When did we lower our standards? Yesterday.
0:26.6	We are living in an environment where people are blind.
0:30.6	What you don't see, you don't know.
0:34.6	Out of sight, out of mind. All, everyone, I am being joined right now by an Academy Award nominee, an editor who
0:45.9	has worked with the likes of Steve McQueen and Danny Villeneuve.
0:49.9	His latest film for Steve McQueen is Widows.
0:53.8	Joining me right now is Joe Walker. Joe, how are you today? I'm good, Matt. Thank you, yeah. Yeah, we're back seeing at home. Well, very good. I understand that right now you're currently actually talking to us right now from California right now, and I know that you guys are going through a lot right now with the fires over there.
1:11.4	I hope everything's okay for you.
1:13.2	It's all fine for me. I mean, I'm just, I'm far away from the epicenter of it all, but it's, yeah,
1:19.5	basically the air smells of fire. It smells like a big bonfire at the moment, so it's a little
1:24.9	bit apocalyptic. Wow. Now, but you're originally from the UK,
1:29.0	and you have been working with writer-director Steve McQueen since the beginning of his career.
1:34.8	His first film, Hunger, released in 2008. Then again, you two re-teamed up on shame, 12 years
1:41.3	a slave. You received your first Oscar nomination for that film. And then you
1:46.0	received a few more working with Denny Villeneuve on films like Sicario, Arrival. And here you
1:52.0	are back again with Steve McQueen for widows. I want to know, first and foremost, what was the
1:57.9	journey like for you in terms of how you met Steve McQueen and you two first started
2:02.4	collaborating with one another? Well, I've had a good run. I mean, that's a very good run.
2:08.6	Yeah. You know, when we first met, it was an interview for Hunger, and I'd been, you know,
2:15.7	I'd worked in television and I'd started to move into feature films
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