You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and these are Will Mavity's interviews with the sound editor for Sound of Metal, Nicholas Becker, director and writer Darius Martyr, and star Paul Visey. You sound great. Yeah, right. What? You told me you weren't feeling it? You were in it. We don't need to put them all out. I know, but we just need to film. Your hearing is deteriorating rapidly.

We'll come back.

Till then, Lou, we just keep going, okay?

No.

Lou, let's play tomorrow.

Let's see what it's like.

Okay, I'm gonna be like a click track.

You can play it in me.

The big question I had first and foremost was, how did you end up in the driver's seat on this

one?

I've heard your work on gravity, arrival, some other films, but how did you end up as the

supervising sound editor here?

I mean, it's just like very simple.

I went to New York to do a very big sound installation in the Armory Park

for an artist called Philippe Parano.

And I made this musician invite to work on this show called Thomas Bartlett.

And Thomas Bartlett is a very good friend of Abraham,

which is the brother of Darius and also Darius.

So I think they were trying to find a sound supervisor for the film.

And I think when the, like Thomas explained a bit like how I was working,

I think it came, you know, like Darius thought, like an ab said like,

okay, maybe this is the guy we should work with.

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