You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and these are Emma Sassick's interviews

with the cast for Netflix's animated film Namona, Riz Ahmed, Chloe Grace Moretz, Eugene Lee Yang,

and the film's directors Nick Fruno and Troy Quinn.

The queen killer is still out there.

Everyone is scared.

He's a murderer.

He's a monster. He's perfect.

He's one at a word just to get me a long face.

Hey boss.

Who are you? The name's Namona.

Your sidekick has arrived.

I don't need a side.

Every villain needs a sidekick. I'm not a villain. Hello, my name is Emma Sassick, and I'm with Next Best Picture. Chloe, it's such a pleasure to meet you. I hope you're doing well today. Thank you, likewise. Thank you. This film obviously deals with, you know, these themes of having all these eyes on you, feeling ostracized.

I'm sure being a woman in Hollywood, especially someone who started acting so young,

there may have been some moments like that for yourself, not to get too personal.

But, you know, when you first read the script, what was the initial reaction like?

And could you relate to pneumonia in a number of ways?

Definitely.

You know, I think this started off as a web comic by Andy Stevenson.

And he actually created it as a thesis in college.

And then that became a graphic novel from the amount of love and and response that pneumonia got and I think

you know that speaks for itself you know alone you know this is a story that really had legs from the

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