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David Remnick talks with Kai Bird, whose biography was the foundation for the new film “Oppenheimer.” Plus, Colson Whitehead; and Greta Gerwig on finding herself as a director. (episode)
Bird’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography was the foundation for Christopher Nolan’s movie “Oppenheimer,” an epic about the father of the atomic bomb.
The novelist talks with David Remnick about bringing back the small-time criminal Ray Carney for a sequel to “Harlem Shuffle.”
Once criticized as a “bossy girl,” Gerwig tamped down her instinct to direct. She told David Remnick in 2019 how she finally gave herself permission to be a filmmaker.
David Remnick talks with Kai Bird, a screenwriter of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” and with Gerwig on embracing her instinct to direct. (article)