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This episode takes us behind the scenes of director Alfonso Gomez Rehoun's new biographical drama,

The Current War, Directors Cut.

The film reveals how electricity tightens Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engaged in a battle of technology and ideas to determine whether direct current or alternating current would power the modern world. In addition to the current war director's cut, Mr. Gomez Rehoun's credits include the feature films, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and the Town that

Dreaded Sundown, the pilot for the series Red Band Society, and episodes of the television

series, American Horror Story, The Carrie Diaries, and Glee.

Following a recent screening of the film at the DGA Theatre in Los Angeles, Mr. Gomez

Rehoun spoke with director

Jonathan Mostow about filming the current war director's cut. Listen on for their spoiler-filled

conversation.

Okay, well, congratulations.

It's a sprawling historical film with a lot of like huge ideas and huge kind of towering characters.

I think I'm going to start with kind of the most,

start with the title, right? So it's the current war, colon, the director's cut.

So this film, as I understand has been,

is sort of had a road kind of to get here.

And can you talk about that?

Why it's called that?

Sure, it was, I may start crying halfway through the story but it's it was a no

it was it was a very long road to get here and and it feels great to be able to finally

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