Never Rarely Sometimes Always with Director Eliza Hittman and Greta Gerwig (Ep. 282)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Director Eliza Hittman discusses her new film, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, with fellow director Greta Gerwig in a spoiler-filled virtual Q&A. The film tells the story of Autumn and Skylar, cousins and inseparable best friends who are navigating adolescence in rural Pennsylvania. When Autumn finds herself pregnant and hemmed in by conservative legislation, the duo board a bus bound for New York to find the help she needs.

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0:00.0	You know, for me, you know, it's not a Dark End Brother film.
0:03.7	Like, we're not making this one rigorous choice to be handheld and to stage each scene in one long take.
0:12.0	Right.
0:12.2	Like, the language depends, you know, it depends on the moment.
0:18.0	Hello, and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
0:23.3	Today's episode takes us behind the scenes of director Eliza Hitman's new drama, never rarely sometimes always.
0:29.8	The film tells the story of Autumn and Skyler, cousins and inseparable best friends who are navigating adolescents in rural Pennsylvania.
0:38.2	When Autumn finds herself pregnant and hemmed in by conservative legislation, the duo board a bus
0:43.1	bound for New York to find the help she needs.
0:46.8	In addition to Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Ms. Hitman's directorial credits include the feature
0:51.5	films It Felt Like Love and love and beach rats and episodes of
0:55.2	13 reasons why and high maintenance. Ms. Hittman spoke with director Greta Gerwig about filming
1:01.3	never rarely sometimes always in front of a virtual audience. Listen on for their spoiler-filled
1:06.6	conversation. I am so happy to be here with you doing this.
1:13.2	I wish we were in person in that beautiful theater.
1:19.0	But I am thrilled to be here now.
1:22.4	As I was saying to you, this is the last movie I saw in the movie theaters.
1:29.0	And I saw it the Monday before everything stopped.
1:32.8	And it was such an incredible screening and it was,
1:36.6	it's, it's such a gorgeous, emotional, beautiful,
1:43.4	like I love your film and I love the actresses.
1:47.0	And then they were there and they were so wonderful.
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