Interviews With "Eddington" Star Joaquin Phoenix & Filmmaker Ari Aster

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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"Eddington" had its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival where it received mixed reviews for its story of the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico, set during 2020, where a rivalry between Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and Mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) reaches a combustible state of political and social turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Director and writer, Ari Aster, the masterful filmmaker behind films such as "Hereditary," "Midsommar" and "Beau Is Afraid" is not unfamiliar with this kind of polarizing response to his provocative films and in fact, he welcomes the debate, discussion and reflection in hopes that his work will bring us closer together during a time where we're more divided than ever before. Aster and Academy Award-winning star Joaquin Phoenix were kind enough to speak with us about their work and experiences making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters nationwide from A24. 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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0:15.5	You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and V's are my interviews with the director and writer for
0:22.1	Eddington, Ariaster, and the film star, Joaquin Phoenix.
0:27.6	I got a call into the office about a disturbance.
0:31.1	Last night, the family was murdered.
0:33.4	Shooters on charitable ground. This is a Pueblo case. This is our crimes. You need to get out of here.
0:59.0	I'm running from there. De You can't keep your own office going, but you're going to run mine. They're your streets to keep safety. Ted Garcia, the man is simply evil. Do we shut this bitch up? All right, everyone, I'm being joined right now on the Next Best Picture podcast by Arister, the director and writer of Eddington. My friend, it's so good to see you. How are you?
1:11.9	Good to see you, man. How are you? Doing really well. You know, we're in the thick of Emmy season right now, obviously going through the summer movie season. And Eddington is a film that I have not been able to stop thinking about since I saw at Cannes. I said coming out of the premiere that to me it was like the definitive COVID
1:18.5	movie, if you will. It was packed with pretty much every feeling that I felt during that time,
1:24.5	every sense of dread that I have felt from that time and how it's also like
1:29.8	seeped into so many aspects of culture and the ripple effect that it's just had over the years.
1:36.3	Like it's like a, like those if we caught a cold that transformed into a virus and we're
1:41.4	perpetually sick and we can't seem to get over what that era did to us.
1:47.6	I'm curious for you, when you set out to make this, what was the intention with trying to capture
1:54.2	this moment in time? Obviously, you said it in a fictional place, but did you want it to have that
2:00.1	kind of definitive feeling where you wanted to
2:03.1	encompass pretty much everything from that era?
2:07.1	Yeah.
2:07.8	Well, you know, I wrote this movie in a state of anxiety and dread.
2:12.5	What else is meant?
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