This is episode 31 in the second season of The Directors Take Podcast.

In this week’s special episode your hosts Marcus Anthony Thomas and Oz Arshad are joined in conversation by legendary French Director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust and Bone) and his long-time Writer and Artistic collaborator Thomas Bidegain to discuss their latest project in partnership with Netflix, the musical crime comedy film EMILIA PÉREZ.

This live conversation which was conducted as part of a NFTS masterclass covers the following:

-What is Directing?

-How did they have to adjust their process to create a musical?

-How did the casting process shape the journey of creating the story?

-What is your relationship with tone and genre during the writing process?

-What was the learning curve like in creating the musical sequences?

-How did you go about creating the world in a very intentional way to marry the use of a soundstage and real world locations?

-Audience questions.

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Credits

Music by Oliver Wegmüller

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E231 - How we created EMILIA PÉREZ with Jacques Audiard & Thomas Bidegain

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