Interviews With "The Harder They Fall," Director, Writer & Composer, Jeymes Samuel & Costume Designer, Antoinette Messam

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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"The Harder They Fall" is a Black revisionist Western which has lit the world on fire and put Hollywood on notice with its all talented Black cast, genre-defying elements, and hip-hop-influenced soundtrack. Writer, director, and composer Jeymes Samuel was kind enough to chat with me about his inspiration for the project, how he chose to approach it compared to his music endeavors, and how his film is looking to reclaim the genre from Hollywood's long history of not giving Black voices their due. On top of that, Costume Designer Antoinette Messam spoke with Will Mavity about her work on the film, which seemed to blend the historic and the modern to present something vibrant and fresh for today's audience. We hope you enjoy it! 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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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and these are our interviews with the writer,
0:05.4	director, and composer for the Harder Day Fall, James Sammy, and Will Mavity's interview
0:10.8	with the costume designer, Antoinette Massam.
0:14.3	The hell are you doing it? I ain't nowhere to board a train. Your damn stupid nymph!
0:21.6	You know, he might could have said ninkumbo.
0:23.6	We ain't no ninkum boom.
0:25.6	We ain't no ninkum boom.
0:29.6	Open it. We're going to play for you.
0:43.6	Our first tale is called...
0:47.3	Let's start what we have come into the room to do.
0:52.7	Right, right. Here goes.
0:56.0	One, two, three. James, how are you, man?
0:58.0	I'm good, my brother.
0:59.0	How you good?
1:00.0	Doing really well, you know, it's that time of the year where things are starting to sort of settle, like calm before the storm, if you will, because we have just like a flurry of end of year awards
1:12.4	televised stuff and everything just coming now you know exactly exactly yeah and um it's you know
1:17.9	obviously i've never been here before this yeah that's what i was going to ask you like what is it
1:22.2	like going through all of this for the first time on your first feature-laying film, I imagine it must feel very
1:28.4	exciting as well as kind of pummeling, I guess, because there's so much happening all at
1:34.6	once. Yeah, well, I mean, for me, there's always so much happening at once because there's
1:40.1	like life, and that's a fun thing, but it's super exciting. It's really gratifying to have something that only you believe in, in the entire world, right?
1:52.4	And you're working all for so long.
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