(28 Feb 2025)
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Los Angeles – 27 February 2025
1. Wide of group photo
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Quan, "Anora" producer – on sex being more accepted on screen:
"When we first started on this journey, we never imagined that this film would be accepted so widely as it is because of certain taboo things that aren’t usually recognized by the Academy. We’re elated. Yeah. I mean, it means the world is in a different place, you know, thinking about different things."
SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Coco, "Anora" producer:
"I think ‘Poor Things’ doing so well last year kind of opened the door a little bit where I was like, okay, maybe, maybe you can, maybe the Academy is willing to accept something with this level of nudity and sexuality and but yeah, we didn’t know if that would happen for our film. But that was something that we kind of looked to as like an example."
2. Cutaway of Coco and Quan giving interview
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Quan, "Anora" producer:
"You’re leaving out a lot of things if if you’re taking all of that out, you know, and there are so many stories and we’re human and adult stories have sex in them."
SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Coco, "Anora" producer:
"And, you know, we’re not trying to just make something sexual. It’s an emotional thing. It’s a storytelling, it’s part of the storytelling. So for me, it’s like, yeah, this is a part of this character’s experience, this, you know, whatever. Yeah. I don’t I don’t think about it like, you know, it’s taboo. You know, like I sit next to my mom and watch a movie with sex. It’s like, this is just. This is I don’t know, I feel okay about it, you know, like, now, maybe in the past, but I didn’t feel so much. But I don’t know, it just kind of is what it is, you know?"
SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Quan, "Anora" producer:
"Yeah, we discussed it that, you know, you couldn’t make this, for us, we couldn’t make this movie authentically without leaving that part of her life. It would have been sanitized."
4. Fred Berger posing
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Fred Berger, "A Complete Unknown" producer – on whether movies should be kept in theaters longer:
"I think these things are really tricky because as filmmakers, of course, we want our movies to run. Like when we were growing up, ‘Home Alone’ would be in theaters for six months or ‘Independence Day,’ and I love the idea that a movie can be culturally significant. I think that cultural significance certainly starts in theaters, that we just see the way in which that communal experience and that word of mouth, and seeing it on a big screen with an audience really generates a connection to the movie that’s different. We’ve felt that very strongly on ‘A Complete Unknown.’ That said, these things are businesses, and I think we have to evolve and be creative. And I think a one size fits all model doesn’t really work. And it’s easy for us to proclaim what we wish. But sometimes I love when certain movies of mine go on streaming because we’re not judged by the box office of one weekend, the quality and the eyeballs get to define it in a slightly different way. So I think we have to protect the theatrical model. We have to try to protect the longest possible window, but we also have to understand that someone is, it only makes sense for us if it also makes sense for the theaters and for everyone else, and for the consumers."
6. Berger posing
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Coralie Fargeat, "The Substance" director/writer – on what she learned from making her first film "Revenge":
8. Tanya Lapointe posing
SOUNDBITE (English) Tanya Lapointe, "Dune: Part Two" producer:
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