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Filmmaker Lee Daniels (‘The Deliverance’) Finds His Light
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This week, our guest is trailblazing filmmaker Lee Daniels.
At the top, we discuss his fifteen-year journey to the new Netflix film The Deliverance (4:00), Daniels’ relationship to spirituality (8:30), and his memories of directing theatre at eight-years-old (12:00). Then, we dive into the therapeutic quality of filmmaking (15:00), his work as a casting director at Warner Brothers in the 80s (17:00), and what it meant for Daniels to manage young performers like Morgan Freeman and Loretta Devine (21:00).
On the back-half, he unpacks the tumultuous process of making his award-winning film Precious (27:00), the projects that followed in The Paperboy and The Butler (36:10), his paradigm-shifting work in Hollywood (37:35), the peace that guided him to make his new film (45:00), and what motivates him to keep working (47:00).
Thoughts or future guest ideas? Email us at sf@talkeasypod.com.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
439 episodes
Manage episode 437445531 series 3487750
This week, our guest is trailblazing filmmaker Lee Daniels.
At the top, we discuss his fifteen-year journey to the new Netflix film The Deliverance (4:00), Daniels’ relationship to spirituality (8:30), and his memories of directing theatre at eight-years-old (12:00). Then, we dive into the therapeutic quality of filmmaking (15:00), his work as a casting director at Warner Brothers in the 80s (17:00), and what it meant for Daniels to manage young performers like Morgan Freeman and Loretta Devine (21:00).
On the back-half, he unpacks the tumultuous process of making his award-winning film Precious (27:00), the projects that followed in The Paperboy and The Butler (36:10), his paradigm-shifting work in Hollywood (37:35), the peace that guided him to make his new film (45:00), and what motivates him to keep working (47:00).
Thoughts or future guest ideas? Email us at sf@talkeasypod.com.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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