‘Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season’ with TGR’s Steve Jones
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BLISTER
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Think you know Lindsey Vonn’s story? Think again. Most of us know Vonn as one of the greatest ski racers of all time — and probably the toughest. But in the new HBO film, Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season, Vonn pulls back the curtain on her career and the steep price of her pursuit of the record for most World Cup wins.
In this conversation, we talk to the film’s co-director and Teton Gravity Research co-founder, Steve Jones, about the making of this film; Vonn’s accessibility and emotional vulnerability; the hidden costs of pursuing greatness; and more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- How did this project come about? (1:57)
- Vonn’s accessibility & emotional vulnerability (4:50)
- Bode Miller sums up downhill ski race crashes (12:30)
- Happiness vs. Greatness (17:18)
- Why did you start Teton Gravity Research? (22:35)
- Biggest differences of filming now vs. when you started? (22:55)
- Favorite directors & recent films? (30:27)
- Steve’s favorite TGR films (31:40)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to the Blister podcast, a program dedicated to interesting people, |
| 0:06.5 | the great outdoors, and a bunch of other stuff we like. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of |
| 0:11.8 | Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:20.6 | Lindsay Vaughn has been in the limelight for so long now. |
| 0:24.4 | You probably think that you know her story. |
| 0:27.4 | I certainly thought I did. |
| 0:29.1 | But what most of us know is that Lindsay Vaughn is one of the best ski racers of all time |
| 0:34.6 | and, without question, one of the toughest ski racers of all time. |
| 0:39.7 | And while those things are certainly true, in the new film that debuts tonight, November 26th, |
| 0:46.3 | on HBO called Lindsay Vaughn, the final season, Vaughn pulls back the curtain on her career |
| 0:53.1 | and the steep price of her pursuit of the record for |
| 0:56.8 | most World Cup wins. So in this conversation, I talked to the film's co-director and Teton |
| 1:04.5 | Gravity Research co-founder Steve Jones about the making of this film, Vonn's accessibility and emotional vulnerability, |
| 1:14.0 | the hidden costs of pursuing greatness, and more. |
| 1:18.4 | And then, Steve and I also talk a bit about why he and his brother Todd started |
| 1:22.6 | Teeton Gravity Research nearly 25 years ago. |
| 1:26.5 | We talk about their evolution as filmmakers, some of Steve's |
| 1:30.3 | recent favorite films, and more. And so tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, you can catch the |
| 1:38.2 | debut of Lindsay Vaughn, the final season. And before you do that, you can now listen to my conversation with Steve Jones |
| 1:46.4 | and get a lot of interesting insight into the making of this film and into Vaughn's story. |
| 1:51.9 | So let's get to it. |
| 1:56.7 | Well, Steve, how are you today and where are you today? |
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