Tim Wardle on making the twist-filled ‘Three Identical Strangers’

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Tim Wardle was working at a production company in London when he first heard about identical triplets separated at birth in the 1960’s and adopted by three different families. The brothers knew nothing of each other’s existence until they were reunited by chance at age 19. Wardle talks to Matt Holzman about how he got to make the crazy story told in his new documentary ‘Three Identical Strangers.’

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:04.8	The first thing, when you get a story like this, the first thing you think is, wow, this is incredible.
0:08.2	The second thing you think is, why hasn't anyone done this before?
0:10.8	And we quickly discovered that people had tried to tell a story before.
0:14.7	We know of three attempts by major U.S. networks, two in the 80s, one in the 90s.
0:20.0	The new documentary, Three Identical Strangers, tells an incredible true story about a set of
0:25.2	identical triplets, separated at birth and reunited by accident.
0:29.8	Even the film's subjects admit they wouldn't have believed it if it hadn't happened to them.
0:34.8	As director Tim Wardle learned, the happy story of Brothers
0:37.9	Reunited also has a dark side. Not everyone was eager for the triplets story to be
0:42.7	made public. Many before him had tried to tell the tale and failed. KCRW's Matt
0:48.3	Holtzman talks to Wardle about his documentary debut, which won a special jury
0:52.5	award at Sundance.
0:58.4	But first on the news banter, Apple, Oprah, Oprah, Apple.
1:01.3	Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.
1:12.2	Well, with Matt Bellany on vacation, I am joined by our pinch hitter in banter.
1:13.1	Leslie Goldberg.
1:13.7	Hello, Leslie.
1:14.6	Hello, Kim.
1:26.8	So we've seen a lot going on in this town lately with deals, contemplated, mega deals, AT&T, closing in on what will now be called Warner Media, big fight over who's going to own Fox. And we see the reason for that with the recent
1:30.7	activity of Apple, because Apple had put a toe in the water of, you know, I'm going to start
1:35.8	programming, they're going to start ramping up. This is what the studios have been terrified
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