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Hello and welcome to a little bonus thing for you. We've had a lot of interest in Onora,

as you'll know, so we thought we'd take the opportunity to interview its director, Sean Baker,

and we've sent junior cub reporter and occasional super sub Ben Bailey Smith to chat to Sean and put some of your points about Anora to him. We'll call this occasional bonus goodness

now and Ben. In this interview, you can hear Ben talk to Sean about how he judges his own work, his love of chihuahuas, that home invasion scene, little orphan Annie, and of course, Ben asked him about the take that needle drop.

All right.

I am joined here by director of Anora and a bunch of other critically acclaimed movies, Red Rocket, Tangerine.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you.

Florida Project.

Mr. Sean Baker, how you doing?

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