Interviews With "The Fabelmans" Co-Producer/Screenwriter Tony Kushner, Production Designer Rick Carter & Costume Designer Mark Bridges

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans" is nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. The Oscar-nominated Co-producer and co-writer, Tony Kushner, was kind enough to spend some time talking with Brendan Hodges about his work on the film. Afterward, Oscar-nominated production designer Rick Carter and costume designer Mark Bridges sit with Daniel Howat and go into detail about their work on the film. Please take a listen down below to hear how all of these individuals contributed to telling Steven Spielberg's personal life story on the big screen. Enjoy, and thank you! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT 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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0:29.6	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Brendan Hodges' interview
0:34.5	with the Oscar-nominated co-producer and co-writer for the
0:37.7	Fableman's Tony Kushner, followed by Daniel Howitz interviews with the Oscar-nominated
0:42.5	production designer Rick Carter and costume designer Mark Bridges.
0:46.5	Movies are dreams.
0:52.7	That you never forget.
0:55.0	Sammy.
1:00.0	Tony, thank you so much for joining us today.
1:05.0	My first question is all of your screenplays with Steven Spielberg originate with some kind of existing
1:14.5	material, whether that's with Munich and Lincoln from, you know, history or adapting a musical
1:22.2	with West Side Story. The Fabelman's sort of fits that pattern. You're adapting existing material.
1:28.6	It just happens to be from a close friend and colleague.
1:32.2	I'm wondering how your approach to that shifted with the Fabelmans.
1:37.0	In some ways, it didn't feel all that different from anything else I've done.
1:41.3	I mean, I suppose, you know, West Side Story was the
1:45.4	screenplay that had the most amount of pre-existing material and structure that had to be
1:52.1	accommodated. I made a lot of changes in the structure and pushed, you know, the whole thing
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