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Today on Happy Sad Confused, Stephen Soterbird on Let Them All Talk, a Sex Lies and Video Tape sequel,

and a very productive year in quarantine.

Hey guys, I'm Josh Harrow.

Welcome to another edition of Happy Sad Confused. I've said it before, I'll say it again. We're in the

midst of a very cool little director run on Happy Sad Confused and the beat goes on today was Stephen Soterberg.

Somebody I've wanted to have on the podcast for forever.

I mean, since I started the podcast five years ago,

if you would ask me, five or ten filmmakers

I wanted on it, Stephen Soterberg would have been me five or ten filmmakers I wanted on it Stephen

Soterberg would have been on the list so thrilled that it finally happened I have

chatted with him back in the day but never in podcast form and he is you know one of the smartest most interesting

filmmakers out there and has been for decades since launching with Sexelizing

videotapes so there was a lot to talk about with the great Stephen Soderberg and we cover a lot in this conversation. He is, as I said, having a, you know, a lot of us have slowed down in 2020. A lot of us kind of had to kind of reassess and

figure out how we were gonna work and live, but Stephen Soterberg seemed to, if

anything, rev up his creative juices this year. He finished three screenplays. He produced

Bill and Ted. He directed a new film that is going to be out next year and he

finished editing and has released the new HBO Max film Let

them all talk. So not surprising. I mean if you look at Stephen

Sodaberg career he is not one to be precious about material he just he just barrels through

and tries stuff and experiments and it's always thrilling to see what he's up to the new

film what the Molotoc is is a delightful film. It's gotten great reviews and well warranted. It stars Merrill Street, Diane Weist, and Candice Bergen, and it takes place all on a cruise ship, and it's very much a conversational,

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