Interviews With "Étoile" Stars & Showrunners

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

"Étoile" is the newest show from the brilliant creative minds of Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"). Set within the world of elite ballet, two world-renowned ballet companies in New York City and Paris swap their most talented stars in an attempt to save their institutions. Stars Luke Kirby, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and the Palladinos were all kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work on the debut season, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the series, which is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on April 24th. 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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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and these are Cody Derrick's interviews
0:05.0	with the showrunners and creators of Etois, Amy Sherman Palladino, Daniel Palladino, and the show stars.
0:13.8	Luke Kirby and Charlotte Gainesford.
0:16.0	Your company, it's in trouble.
0:17.5	No, it's not.
0:18.3	Yes, it is.
0:23.4	Reviews don't matter.
0:24.8	Mine is two.
0:25.7	I've got union issues.
0:27.7	If they strike, I don't have to pay them.
0:30.8	What?
0:33.1	The audience is dead.
0:35.0	So is the funding.
0:36.1	The seats are empty.
0:37.1	Not ours.
0:37.8	That's right. Once we closed off the balconies, the house filled right up. We have to fix this. Okay, fine. What do we do? We trade our top tanked. Paris and New York. Hello there. Hi, Cody. Hi, Amy. Hi, Daniel. How you doing today? We're doing good. How are you doing? I'm doing pretty good.
0:54.9	Excited to talk to you about this show.
0:56.6	All right.
0:57.7	So. Hi, Amy. Hi, Daniel. How are you doing today? We're doing good. How are you doing? I'm doing pretty good. Excited to talk to you about this show.
0:56.6	Great. So, just to start things out, the thing I'm asking all your colleagues about this show is I myself have a background in ballet, so I was really excited about this show.
1:07.3	You know, even little things like I noticed the correct original choreo for Giselle in the background of a scene.
1:13.2	So clearly, you know what you're doing, you know what you're talking about.
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