The Women Behind Two of the Year's Best Films
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Joanna Robinson talks to Blockers director Kay Cannon, and Richard Lawson talks to Leave No Trace director Debra Granik.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the awards is and podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Katie Ritchie, the deputy editor of Vanity Fair. dot com and I'm here with our chief critic Richard Lawson |
| 0:14.5 | Hello and our senior writer germanagh Robinson. |
| 0:16.5 | Hi Katie! Happy Independence Day week to those of you in the United States. |
| 0:20.5 | If you're not in the United States you may have noticed it's been very |
| 0:23.1 | quiet here in the US because the holiday falls in the middle of the week this |
| 0:27.4 | week. So we are going to kind of take a break from the news cycle and share two |
| 0:31.9 | recent interviews that Richard and |
| 0:33.3 | Joanna have done. First up we're going to hear Richard's conversation with |
| 0:37.3 | Deborah Granick who is the director well actually Richard you just start us from |
| 0:40.7 | there. Yeah Deborah Granick wrote and directed this movie called Leave No Trace. |
| 0:44.0 | She made Winter's Bone back in 2010. |
| 0:45.7 | That's how most people kind of became aware of her, though she had a previous Sundance |
| 0:49.4 | hit called Down to the Bone in 2004. But yeah, Leave No Trace was at Sundance and Can. It's a really, really |
| 0:55.7 | great movie with starring Ben Foster and this newcomer, Thomason Mackenzie. So I talked to her about |
| 1:01.6 | her approach to filmmaking, her approach to filmmaking, |
| 1:02.9 | her approach to casting, |
| 1:04.1 | because she's such a good kind of starmaker |
| 1:06.2 | between this girl and Jennifer Lawrence |
| 1:08.1 | and Vera from Ego. |
| 1:09.5 | Yeah, no pressure on Thomas and McKinsey |
| 1:11.0 | to be the new Jennifer Lawrence. Yeah, I mean, but she really, I mean, she's great in the movie. |
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