Interviews With "May December" Star Charles Melton & Screenwriter Samy Burch

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

"May December" had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, receiving positive reviews for Todd Haynes' direction, the performances from Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and Charles Melton, and the writing from Samy Burch. Shortly after its screening at the New York Film Festival (and free of the writer's strike), Samy Burch spoke with Ema Sasic about her experience working on the film. And a few weeks later, after his Gotham win for Outstanding Supporting Performance (and a day before he would go on to win the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor alongside Burch's win for Best Screenplay), Charles Melton gave me a few moments of his time to dig deep into the character of Joe Yoo. The film is now streaming on Netflix and is up for your consideration for the 96th Academy Awards in all eligible categories. Please be sure to check out the film before listening as SPOILERS are discussed. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with one of the stars from Todd Haynes' May December, Charles Melton,
0:09.0	and Emma Sassick's interview with the film screenwriter Sammy Birch.
0:14.0	How do you choose your roles?
0:16.0	I want to find a character that's difficult to on the surface understand.
0:21.6	Were they born or were they made?
0:29.6	It's such a pleasure to meet you.
0:31.6	You are so sweet. We're so happy to have you.
0:34.6	Thank you for doing this. It's so generous.
0:36.6	Well, I want you to tell the story, right, don't I? We're taller. You look taller on television, but we're basically the same size. It's basically the same. Feels like things just settled down, and now y'all are making a movie. It's a very complex and human story. I think it's hard to trust then.
0:54.2	You're gonna represent Gracie as she was.
0:56.6	I'm gonna try.
1:00.2	Do you remember when you first met?
1:03.0	You came to the pet store looking for a job.
1:05.2	It was summer after sixth grade.
1:07.0	Seventh.
1:10.5	Why do you wanna to play me?
1:11.6	When they sent me the script, I thought, here is a woman with a lot more to her than I remember from the tab.
1:18.6	What would make a 36-year-old woman have an affair with the seventh grader?
1:25.6	People, they like see me as a victim.
1:28.3	I wanted it.
1:34.3	I already have an idea of what it must have felt like.
1:37.3	What?
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