Movie Mindset Bonus - Interview With Director Ari Aster

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Will & Hesse sit down with Ari Aster, director of Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau is Afraid, and the upcoming Eddington. They rap on evil movies, mixing stupid slapstick humor with pain & discomfort, creating a contemporary western out of the recent past, some of Ari’s favorite films & filmmakers, and of course…the all-consuming sense of impending doom & lurking doubt that surrounds us. Check out Eddington, in theaters this summer on July 18th.

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0:00.0	Hello, movie maniacs. We have a great interview with director Ariaster coming at you in just a second. But first, a quick reminder that year zero, a Chapo Trap House comics anthology is now available for preorder at www.bad egg.co. Yes, five scintillating tales of madness, one from each of the hosts of this very
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0:37.4	today. And now, on to the interview.
0:44.0	All right. Welcome back, movie fans. We've got a special treat for your mindset heads out there
0:51.9	as part of our ongoing directors series hasa and i could
0:56.2	not be more thrilled to be uh talking today with one of our favorite contemporary filmmakers
1:01.6	he is the director of such films as hereditary midsummer bo is afraid and the soon to be released eddington
1:09.4	that's right folks we've got King Payman himself here today.
1:13.1	Ari Aster.
1:14.0	Ari, welcome to the show.
1:15.6	Hey, thanks for having me.
1:17.4	Oh, our pleasure.
1:18.4	So, Ari, I just listed your filmography.
1:21.8	I know people are familiar with you and your work.
1:23.7	So I guess my first question for you is, when are you going to make a nice movie?
1:28.1	You know, for the nice people, something I can watch with my mother.
1:33.9	Oh, man.
1:35.0	Yeah, I'd like to make a nice movie.
1:37.8	I don't know.
1:38.6	There's nice stuff in all of this.
1:41.7	Well, I have to ask, did your mother watch Boas, a friend? She did. Yeah. She a fan. Yeah. Well, I have to ask, did your mother watch Bo as a friend? She did. Yeah.
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