Why the Creators of "Everything Everywhere All At Once" Treat Their Partnership Like a Marriage

Death, Sex & Money

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4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as Daniels, on their friendship, learning to play to their strengths, and making their hit film Everything Everywhere All At Once.

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0:00.0	I always say I watch movies about marriage and I'm like, oh yes reminds me of Dan, you know.
0:05.0	Like what movie reminds you of your relationship?
0:08.0	Oh yes, scenes from a marriage. No, I haven't seen that.
0:10.0	Actually, a marriage story. A marriage story, yeah.
0:12.0	Am I Adam Driver? Are you?
0:14.0	No, you're Scrawled Your Hands in it. I'm the hero that the audience likes.
0:21.0	This is Death, Sex, and Money.
0:24.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.
0:34.0	I'm Anna Sain.
0:41.0	Daniels are a filmmaker duo made up of yes, two men named Daniel, Daniel Shiner and Daniel Kwan,
0:49.0	who also goes by DM. They are the writers and directors of the movie, everything, everywhere, all at once.
0:57.0	A very strange and moving film about the metaverse and generational trauma that also may be the first award season darling that has not won, but a few dildo gags.
1:09.0	The story follows Evelyn Wang, played by Michelle Yo, as she tries to save the world while being audited by an IRS agent.
1:18.0	Played by Jamie Lee Curtis.
1:20.0	Nothing but a stack of receipts. I can trace the ups and downs of your lives.
1:28.0	And it doesn't all look good.
1:31.0	It does not work good.
1:36.0	Dan Kwan and Daniel Shiner are both in their 30s. Kwan is 34, Shiner is 35, and they've been working together since they were film students in their early 20s.
1:46.0	Everything, everywhere, all at once, has been a massive hit.
1:51.0	And as we started our conversation, it seemed like they're still getting used to the crush of attention that it's brought the two of them.
1:58.0	I know you all have done a lot of interviews together, but don't feel like you have to wait for me to turn the question to the other.
2:05.0	Please feel free to just kind of add that on to the other thing.
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