This sounds so odd, but there's a very long sequence in the beginning where they all say,

Hi, Barbie, hi Barbie, hi, Barbie, hi, Ken, hi Barbie, hi, Ken, hi, Ken, hi, Ken, hi,

Hi, Barbie.

I got a spill of ice creams or whatever it is.

And I had them do it so many times because I wanted them to, them to embrace the absurdity of it.

And something Ryan said after me, he said,

I think you were tuning us. Hello and welcome back to the Directors' Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In honor of the 76th annual DGA Awards, we're bringing back our annual

series of episodes devoted to our popular Meet the Nominees Theatrical Feature Film Symposium.

The event is a roundtable discussion with the directors nominated for the Guild's Award

for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film.

This year's nominees included Greta Gerwig, the director of Barbie,

Jorgos Lentemos, the director of Poor Things,

Christopher Nolan, the director of Oppenheimer,

Alexander Payne, the director of The Holdovers,

and Martin Scorsese, the director of Killers of the Flower Moon.

These talented directors gathered on stage at the Guild's Los Angeles Theater on February 10th

to discuss the craft of directing and the making of their films with moderator Jeremy Kakin.

So please enjoy part two of our Meet the Nominees Theatrical Feature Film Special,

and listen to our five nominees

conclude their discussion.

Greta, can you talk about rehearsal before?

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