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

In honor of the 73rd 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, which celebrated its 30th anniversary this year, is a roundtable discussion with the directors nominated

for the Guild's Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement

and Theatrical Feature Film.

This year's nominees include Lee Isaac Chung,

the director of Minari, Emerald Fennell,

the director of Promising Young Woman,

David Fincher, the director of Mank, Aaron Sorkin, the director of the

Trials of the Chicago 7, and Chloe Zhao, the director of Nomadland. These talented directors gathered on

April 10th to discuss the craft of directing and the making of their films with moderator

Jeremy Kagan in front of a virtual audience.

So please enjoy part two of our Meet the nominees special.

And listen to the five nominees share their thoughts on actors,

tailoring the right approach to an actor's working style,

the importance of establishing confidence in their key collaborators,

and readjusting performance to fit the film.

Let's talk about redirection.

And M, I'm going to ask you first again, if you don't mind.

In terms of when you had to, or when you wanted to, give a note to your actor, what would you do? How would you get that performance change if you needed to? Now look, I mean, obviously you're working with some

absolutely wonderful actors in your movie. So that may not have been a problem, but there may have

been adjustments. And because that's something

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