You were listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and these are Daniel Howard's interviews with the cast members for the film Bird, Franz Raghowski, Barry Keoghian, and Nikiah Adams.

Hey, Bernie!

Let's go home.

What?

Let's go.

Dad, why are you in such a good move?

The cold. His drug toll is going to pay for everything.

Well, Frans, thank you so much. It's wonderful to meet you.

Both the film and your performance in it are some of my favorite of the year.

It's really beautiful. So thank you for taking the time to chat with me a little more.

I appreciate it.

Well, all kind words. I mean, is there anything you didn't like about the movie? Tell me, in all

honesty. No, I loved it. I loved it. I really did. But I do want to hear more about it. The character

of Bird is so unique, both in the way that he impacts Bailey, but also in the way that he moves.

And so as you were preparing for the film, was there anything that unlocked this character

for you in terms of his physicality?

I didn't prepare any weird movement for the character, but there was an artistic idea how to translate the transformation from human to animal or to bird into footage.

And we shot a lot of scenes with a, I think, 100 year old stop motion camera that would

create images that we are probably familiar with. Everyone that has seen Charlie Chaplin knows

these fast forward like stop motion camera images.

And unfortunately, these scenes didn't make it in the final edit.

So most of the physicality that we gave a bird and his, let's say, transitioning from human to bird are hidden to the public eye.

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