You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and these are my interviews, with the director

and writer for kinds of kindness, Yorgos Lanfabos, and two of the film stars, Joe Alwyn

and Mammu-A-Phi.

This is it.

The moment of truth.

Burgos, back again so soon.

Lovely seeing you again.

And I got to say, I'm quite pleased with the outcome here.

I saw kinds of kindness at the Cannes Film Festival at its world premiere.

What a blast.

What a time.

It was, in many ways, what people were saying was a bit of like a return to form almost.

Not to say that anything had necessarily changed so much over the last couple of years.

You're still you.

But it was great to reunite with your writing partner again and get some more of the type of style that some of your earlier work really reminded us of.

And so congratulations on the reception of the film, first and foremost, winner of the best

actor prize at can. How are you feeling, first of all, just coming off of everything from

poor things and now straight into this. Are you like in need of a break? How are you doing

right now? Yeah, I mean, I will eventually take a break. I'm starting to feel like I need it.

And, you know, every time that I finish something, I never can, you know, stay still for too much.

I, you know, there's always something in my mind and I'm like, oh, I'm wasting time.

Why am I not doing that? Which is how kinds of kindness came to be that quickly right after

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