Interviews With The Cast & Director Of "The Piano Lesson"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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"The Piano Lesson" had its world premiere at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for the performances from its cast and for Malcolm Washington's adaptation of August Wilson's 1987 play to the screen, making his directorial debut in terrific fashion. Malcolm Washington, along with his brother John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, Ray Fisher, Samuel L. Jackson, and Michael Potts, were all nice enough to spend some time with me talking about bringing the play to the big (or small if you're watching it at home on Netflix) screen. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in select theaters and will be available to stream on Netflix on November 22nd. The film is up for your consideration in all eligible categories at the 97th Academy Awards. 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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0:15.5	You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and V's are my interviews with the director and writer for the piano lesson, Malcolm Washington, and with the film's cast John David Washington, Daniel Deadweiler, Ray Fisher, Samuel Jackson, and Michael Potts. You feel that?
0:43.5	That's your family.
0:47.0	That's your blood.
0:56.2	Sometimes you be in trouble. might be around to help you
0:58.5	John, Danielle, thank you both so so much
1:00.8	For taking the time to talk to me today about the piano lesson
1:02.9	Awesome performances in this movie
1:05.1	The two of you and how the sibling
1:06.9	I don't even want to call it a rivalry
1:08.4	We'll just call it like a little mini family conflict If you will I love that, thank you. Yeah, they don't even want to call it a rivalry. We'll just call it like a little mini family conflict, if you will.
1:11.6	I love that.
1:12.6	Thank you.
1:13.6	Yeah. They don't hate each other. No. I don't, no. Definitely not. You know, they're just, they have different views on how they see this piano and its use, basically. I want to first start off by asking, or even one of you, spiritual, because there's so many spiritual aspects to this movie and how it incorporates it into the text and how, not just in terms of religion, but also how we connect to our ancestors and how that could be a guiding force and how we make these decisions in life. So I want to first start off asking about that.
1:43.3	Well, certainly. And it's in everything that I do, a facet of my life. So I want to first start off asking about that. Well, certainly. And it's in everything that I do,
1:47.0	the facet of my life. You know, and it's interesting. When I feel like I'm off,
1:51.0	I'm usually checking in vertically. You know, if there's something,
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