Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers.

I'm Rebecca Ford. And I'm John Ross. Rebecca, how is your trip to Savannah?

It was good. Was that your southern accent? It's my southern accent. Oh, gosh. I was shocked to be surrounded by southern accents because I'm so rarely around them, but I loved that town. I'd never been before. Great shopping, beautiful walking, amazing trees, just like such a gorgeous place.

Whoa, wait. Tell them why you were there.

Oh, yes. The Scad Savannah Film Festival invited me to moderate a couple things.

So I moderated John M. Chu's tribute, which was sort of like a career award for him, but very focused on Wicked for Good.

And then I also spoke to Zoe Deutsch after screening of Nouvelle Vogue. So I didn't

know, John, that the audiences were like 80% students from the school. So it's like when John walked out,

it was like he was walking out at a concert. I mean, they're like screaming. It's a higher pitch that I'm

used to. Yeah.

And the energy is so fun.

Did he stay and talk to every single student?

He did.

And then he did a master class separately with the film students.

They get a lot of time with them.

It's pretty incredible.

Yeah, it is.

And I think one of the reasons why it's successful that festival is that the directors and the people that go feel like it's a nice thing.

It feels a little less thirsty.

Yeah.

And a little less stuffy.

And it feels like, oh, well, this is like a nice thing to do with these aspiring artists.

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