The Kill Room with Nicol Paone and Jim Rash (Ep. 438)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Director Nicol Paone discusses her new film, The Kill Room, with fellow Director Jim Rash in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, Paone discusses taking lessons from making her last film, creating a soundtrack that helped balance the film’s dramedy tone, and working with both a production designer and art advisor to establish the artistic look of the film. The film tells the story of an art dealer who teams with a hitman and his boss for a money laundering scheme, trading paintings by way of assassinations. But when the exchange accidentally launches the hitman’s work into fame, the dealer is forced to pit her art world against the underworld. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://dga.org/Events/2023/November2023/THE-KILL-ROOM_QnA_1023.aspx

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0:00.0	Men in their 50s have, they have a lot of time to perfect their art. And so a man in his 50s has a
0:09.2	different point of view than a character in their, you know, early 20s. And so it was important.
0:14.8	I just wanted like a rising star in the art world. And we found this artist named Rocky Ford. And she
0:20.2	was thrilled to be, you know, included and have her art be in the art world. And we found this artist named Rocky Ford, and she was thrilled to be
0:21.2	included and have her art be in the movie. And so it was important to match the art with the
0:27.7	character and the artist with the character as well.
0:54.3	Music Hello and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
1:01.1	In this episode, a hitman turns into an overnight avant-garde sensation in director Nicole Payone's thriller, The Kill Room.
1:03.5	The film tells the story of an art dealer who teams with a hitman and his boss for a money-laundering
1:08.6	scheme, trading paintings by way of assassinations.
1:12.4	But when the exchange accidentally launches the hitman's work into fame, the dealer is forced
1:17.3	to pit her art world against the underworld. In addition to the Kill Room, Payone's other
1:23.7	directorial credit includes the feature film Friendsgiving.
1:33.9	Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Pion spoke with director Jim Rash about filming The Kill Room. Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.
1:52.9	I was working on Wall Street with one person who would later give me the script in 2019 and another person who I asked to finance the movie.
1:56.6	And they did.
1:57.8	And in 1994, Sam and Uma were doing Pulpiction.
2:01.6	Wow. No pressure. No pressure Pulp Fiction. Wow.
2:02.2	No pressure.
2:02.9	No pressure at all.
2:03.8	None.
2:04.9	And so were you through the whole development of the process?
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