Because that's why we're all in the business is that exciting moment when everyone's working together to create this incredible thing and to try to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In this episode, a man suffering from complications caused by severe obesity attempts to reconnect

with his estranged teenage daughter and director Darren Aronofsky's drama, The Whale.

The film tells the story of Charlie, a reclusive English teacher whose guilt over abandoning

his wife and baby daughter, has led to a years-long eating disorder that now threatens his life.

Faced with mortality, the attempts to make amends with the daughter he left behind.

In addition to The Whale,

Aronofsky's other directorial credits include the feature films Mother,

Noah, The Wrestler, and Requiem for a Dream.

He was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for his 2010 feature, Black Swan.

Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York,

Aronovsky spoke with director Greta Gerwig about filming The Whale.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

When I saw the film, I was, it was so incredibly moving and beautiful and I there's so many things I want to talk to you about how you worked with each actor

but I also felt like it was incredibly faithful to the text it felt um it felt like in the best

way like the great cinematic plays, like, sort of like,

who's afraid of Virginia Woolfer, like, just using that language. And I wanted to sort of ask you

about the text and your relationship to it and the faithfulness to it and how you approached it.

And is it different than how you've approached other texts

that you've written?

Well, I think it was, I was really moved when I saw it 10 years ago as a play.

It was almost actually 10 years ago to the day, three days ago, that I saw the playwrights

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