Interviews With "Say Nothing" Executive Producers Joshua Zetumer & Michael Lennox

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

"Say Nothing" is a historical drama limited series created by Joshua Zetumer and produced by FX Productions, adapted from the 2018 book by Patrick Radden Keefe, and details four decades in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. The series premiered in late 2024 and garnered strong word of mouth, resulting in positive reviews, a Peabody Award, and now, an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for "The People in the Dirt." Zetumer and the episode's director, Michael Lennox, were both kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work on the limited series, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the series, which is now available to watch in full on Hulu on FX. 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 these are Giovanni Lago's interviews with the executive producers for the FX Limited Series Say Nothing.
0:10.6	Michael Lennox and Joshua Zetumur.
0:14.0	This is all anonymous, yeah?
0:16.0	I. You can say, Anathan.
0:20.3	My mother and father were both proud members of the Irish Republican army.
0:25.6	Have I told you girls how to make explosives?
0:28.6	It was quite a happy childhood.
0:32.6	We were Catholic.
0:34.6	It was a segregated society.
0:36.6	Everything went to the Protestants. We saw Catholic. It was a segregated society. Everything went to the Protestants.
0:38.3	We thought joining the A-Haree.
0:42.3	It was the noblest thing a person could do.
0:45.3	And when we were late for school?
0:48.3	You're not going to school.
0:50.3	Had that mean the whole time?
0:52.3	Soldiers didn't even think the look. You might be missing your chance to win this war. We wanted to be doing what the whole time. Soldiers didn't even think to look.
0:55.9	You might be missing your chance to win this war.
0:58.7	We wanted to be doing what the boys were doing.
0:59.9	What were the boys doing?
1:01.0	Fun raising.
1:05.9	We are liberating funds for the Irish Republican Army.
1:07.1	Mother Superior.
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