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The Next Best Picture Podcast

Interviews With "The Power Of The Dog" Actor Jesse Plemons, Cinematographer Ari Wegner & Editor Peter Sciberras

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2542 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

"The Power Of The Dog" is one of 2021's very best films. Under the careful direction of Jane Campion, the film has spawned a ton of conversation since its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival for its themes, acting, and craftsmanship. We were very fortunate to get the opportunity to interview a few people involved with the making of the film, including cinematographer Ari Wegner, editor Peter Sciberras and actor Jesse Plemons who plays George Burbank. Please take a listen down below but be sure to watch the film first on Netflix before listening as we discuss spoilers in our conversations. Thank you and enjoy! 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 Will Mavity's interviews with the editor for The Power of the Dog, Peter Skabaris, and the cinematographer Ari Wagner, and my interview with one of the film stars, Jesse Plemons.

0:21.6

All right, so, first off, you know, you've been David Meshad's kind of long-time editor.

0:27.6

So how did you get teamed up with Jane?

0:30.6

That happened kind of around, I think we'd maybe just finish the king.

0:35.6

And, you know, Sydney's a pretty small place and

0:38.4

everyone knows each other. I'd never actually met Jane, but David and Jane known each other

0:44.3

for quite a few years. And David, I had this story much after getting the gig, but David was

0:52.9

telling Jane how fantastic I was and how much fun

0:56.7

he'd had working with me.

0:57.9

And yeah, and then it just kind of happened.

1:02.0

He was right.

1:04.7

So I guess we should just kind of go ahead and say, I think the only way to really discuss

1:08.9

your work in this film effectively is to acknowledge to anyone who's going to be listening to this, that there's going to be some

1:14.2

spoilers because, you know, I can only ask you about my favorite parts if we do that.

1:18.9

Films a puzzle box.

1:20.3

There's lots of clues.

1:22.4

I guess the big twist in this film, it's all building up to, is that Cody Smith-Bee's

1:27.3

character infected Benedict Cumberbotch with arsenic, right?

1:31.4

With anthrax?

1:32.5

Not arsenic. Antaracts, yes. Yeah, correct, yeah.

1:35.5

So, uh, why don't you just kind of go through the process of laying those puzzle pieces

1:41.0

to kind of sneakily build that reveal?

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