But that's sort of what it was born out of is like how to get our crew back to work,

how to how to do something creative and how to try to tell a story given the restrictions of COVID.

Can we just tell a story?

Hello and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

Today's episode takes us behind the scenes of director Sam Levinson's new drama, Malcolm and Marie. The film takes place as Malcolm returns home with his girlfriend Marie following a celebratory movie premiere.

But their evening takes a turn as revelations about their relationships begin to surface, testing the strength of their love.

In addition to Malcolm and Marie, Mr. Levinson's directorial credits include the feature films,

Assassination Nation, and Another Happy Day, and episodes of the series Euphoria.

Mr. Levinson spoke with director Derek C. in France about filming Malcolm and Marie in front of a virtual audience.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

All right, I guess this is my cue. Hey, I'm Derek C. in France. I'm here with Sam Levinson to talk about his new movie, Malcolm and Marie. How you doing?

Good. Thank you so much for doing this. I'm so excited to talk to you.

Dude, it's my, it's, it's my honor. Sam and I have just met each other. But I've been aware of each other's work. I think the

film that you made is so brave and really like a pioneering film. You were the first person,

really, I think, to figure out how to shoot in the pandemic.

But I don't, and I think a lot's been talked about that, but I want to ask you to start

specifically on how does it feel to release a movie in this, in this pandemic?

Good. I mean, look, I think like it's, I mean, I'm so grateful to Netflix to have the ability to go shoot a movie with 22 people in the middle of June during lockdown and somehow find a way to get it done and to a distributor that can that can reach like 200 million people.

It's just, it's mind-blowing.

And so I just, I can't get over, I can't get over that fact, you know.

And, you know, but releasing any movies, always like a strangely sort of nerve-wracking and kind of, I don't know, I have, I always go through like a weird postpartum thing.

Do you have that at all?

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