Interviews With "Conclave" Producer, Costume & Production Designers

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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"Conclave" had its world premiere at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival, where it received positive reviews and was nominated for a bunch of prizes this awards season. Most recently, it received 8 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, won the Art Directors Guild for Contemporary Feature Film, won the Costume Designers Guild for Excellence in Contemporary Film, and won 4 BAFTA Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Oscar-nominated Producer Tessa Ross, Production Designer Suzie Davies, and Costume Designer Lisy Christl were all kind enough to spend some time speaking with Will Mavity and me about their work on the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Peacock and is up for your consideration for this year's Academy Awards in all eligible categories, including Best Picture, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design. 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 of one of the Oscar nominated producers for Conclave, Tessa Ross, followed by Will Mavity's interviews with the Oscar nominated costume designer Lizzie Crystal and production designer Susie Datees.
0:16.4	The Pope is dead. The throne is vacant.
0:23.6	The conclave begins now. We're about to choose the most famous man in the world.
0:27.6	And one and a quarter billion souls watching.
0:30.6	I'd say this is a pretty fair vision of hell.
0:33.6	Well, don't be blasphemous, Ray.
0:34.6	Hell arrives tomorrow when we bring in McCartons.
0:40.7	No sane man were to want the paper seat.
0:42.2	Some of our colleagues seem to want it.
0:51.6	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Next Best Picture podcast, where I am being joined right now by one of the producers of the Oscar-nominated film Conclave, Tessa Ross.
1:12.4	Tessa, thank you so much for making time to talk with me today. It's such a pleasure, Matt, really. Very nice to meet you as well. Oh, it's so nice to meet you. I feel very polite in my British voice listening to you talk about. I'm such a huge fan of this film. I saw it at the World Premiere, Telluride, and I knew I was going to be in the bag for this from day one i love me political thrillers behind closed doors people making power play chess moves against each other
1:20.8	and of course who doesn't like the occasional examination well the ambition of petty men
1:26.3	uh especially in today's political climate worldwide.
1:29.6	So I really, really appreciate you bringing this to the screen for us.
1:34.3	Well, that's very kind of you. I don't really know how to respond. If I could have described
1:38.1	it like that when I started, I'd have been onto a really good thing. Well, you've also been a producer
1:43.2	on so many other countless great films,
1:46.4	from Slumdog Millionaire to 12 Years of Slave, Ex Machina. I mean, the list really just goes on and on and on.
1:54.3	Carol, my God. So when you think of a film like Conclave, when you're setting off to do it, does it just
2:01.9	strike you as just another film to work on or is there something that separates it from
2:07.7	the rest of the pack?
2:09.2	Like, what is it about this material that stood out to you?
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