Hello and welcome to a channel 33 Podcast.

My name is Sean Fennesee.

I'm the editor in chief of the ringer and I'm joined today by James Gray, a writer and

director of films like The Yards, We On The Night, two lovers in the immigrant.

His new movie, The Sweeping and Beautiful, The Lossity of Z, tells the true story of the

Edwardian Explorer Percy Fossett who went on a quest to find the titular Amazonian

civilization.

James, thanks for being here.

It's nice to be here.

This is a beautiful movie that is very similar to some of your movies, but also very different.

It is an adventure story.

It is a story about obsession.

You've never made an adventure story before but you have made some movies about obsession.

Why did you make this movie?

Stanley Kubrick once said he said, somebody asked him why you make the movie you make

and why you choose a story and he said, well, it's a little bit like asking why you married

your wife.

She has a nice figure and a lovely face but there are a lot of women who have nice figures

and lovely faces.

You know, the point is you don't really know exactly why.

But I can tell you in my case, I had been sent the book in 2008 before it was published.

And I have no idea why by the way, Brad Pitt and D.D. Gardin and Jeremy Klein who are the

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