The Hollywood Reporter is unveiling the directors roundtable in the latest episode of Off Script With The Hollywood Reporter. The program hosted by Yvonne Orji is set to air on SundanceTV and features Blitz Bazawule of 'The Color Purple', Bradley Cooper of 'Maestro', Ava DuVernay of 'Origin', Greta Gerwig of 'Barbie', Todd Haynes of 'May December' and Michael Mann of 'Ferrari' who all join THR's Rebecca Keegan at the table.
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00:00 "Something I've heard you say on Barbie, which is that your motto was 'drive it like you stole it.'
00:04 Can you explain that?"
00:05 This THR news story is presented by Neom. The Hollywood Reporter is unveiling their
00:15 director's roundtable in their latest episode of Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter.
00:19 The latest roundtable, hosted by Yvonne Orji, is set to air on Sundance TV
00:24 and features Blitz Bozzavule of The Color Purple, Bradley Cooper of Maestro, Ava DuVernay of Origin,
00:31 Greta Gerwig of Barbie, Todd Haynes of May/December, and Michael Mann of Ferrari,
00:36 who all join THR's Rebecca Keegan at the table.
00:39 "Everybody said no to Maestro. Yeah, every studio passed."
00:42 "This isn't the kind of film that you take to a studio and say,
00:45 'Can you give me millions of dollars to make a story about a woman who's going through a trauma?'"
00:49 "We had 23 days to shoot the movie. Throughout, the challenge was,
00:54 'How do you not be redundant?'"
00:56 During their hour-long sit-down, the group chat about everything from bringing the director's
01:00 vision to life and diving into a scene to being inspired by each other's work.
01:05 "Michael is the reason that I thought that I could become a filmmaker. Michael Mann. I was a
01:11 publicist on his film Collateral. And just watching him being on that set as a young publicist made me
01:19 think, 'Wait, he's shooting with Black and brown people in Black and brown communities with cameras
01:24 that are fat. I'm going to look into this.'" Off-script with The Hollywood Reporter brings
01:28 the film industry's top creatives together for inspiring and surprising conversations.
01:33 Be sure to tune in on Sunday, January 7th for the full episode on Sundance TV
01:38 and Monday, January 8th on THR.com and YouTube.
01:42 For the latest roundtables and awards season coverage, keep watching The Hollywood Reporter
01:47 News.