My Interviews
Every interview, in one place.
Long-form interviews with filmmakers, actors, voice artists, musicians and photographers. Over fifty of them so far, and nobody has ever paid to be on it.
Newest first.
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She Made This Same Story Once Before, About Her Own Father┃Tessa Blake Interview
Behind the Industry
We Gave Kevin James a Fake Account and It Got Away From Us┃John Kinnane & Jeffrey Azize Interview
Art & Photography
We Should Have Used a Blue Screen: Making Bob Ross in Space┃Skinner & Allen Cordell Interview
Film & Television
Fourth Time With the Same Team, and He Knows What That Means┃Berto Colon Interview
Film & Television
I Had My Real Bruises Covered Up So They Could Paint Fake Ones On┃Daniel MacPherson Interview
Film & Television
I Had Already Quit Acting. My Mom Made Me Do One Last Audition┃Hudson Hensley Interview
Behind the Industry
What Fred Rogers Taught Me at Six That I Put Into a Film at Forty┃Nicholas Ma Interview
Behind the Industry
Grown Men Cried on My Shoulder at Sundance and Barely Anyone Speaks in It┃Cole Webley Interview
Film & Television
My Drama Teacher Mailed My Audition Out on VHS When I Was 14┃Adelaide Clemens Interview
Film & Television
“If You Are Brave and You Die in That Ring, I Will Still Be Proud”┃Joe Taslim Interview
Film & Television
Spider-Noir’s Megawatt: “The Actor Is Just the Cover”┃Andrew Lewis Caldwell Interview
Film & Television
They Shot the Film First and Then Rebuilt It Live On Stage Every Night┃Daniel Askill Interview
Film & Television
We Wrote Coach as a 65-Year-Old White Guy, and I Am Glad We Were Wrong┃Lauren Meyering & Lillian Carrier Interview
Conversations that did not happen anywhere else.
Some of these took a year of asking. A few I only got because nobody else had thought to ask.
Final interview
Ron Galella
The last recorded conversation with the man who invented the modern paparazzi, seven days before he died in 2022.
First podcast
Steve Hickner
The director of The Prince of Egypt and Bee Movie, on a podcast for the first time.
First podcast
L.V.
The Grammy-winning voice on the chorus of “Gangsta’s Paradise”, telling the story of how the song got taken off his own album.
First since 2016
Ruby Barnhill
The lead of Steven Spielberg’s The BFG, on what a set is like when you are eleven.
First interview
Seth Dusky
The voice of Milo in Disney’s Mars Needs Moms, speaking about the film for the first time since it came out.
First on the film
Hiram Garcia and Dinesh Thyagarajan
First interviews on A Minecraft Movie and on Superman (2025), both before anyone else got to them.
Why none of these are paid for.
Nobody buys a seat on this show. No publicist arranges a favour, no label sponsors an episode, and no guest sees the questions in advance.
That is less a moral thing than a practical one. The conversations worth an hour are the ones where somebody gets to say something they have not already said in forty press junkets.
In practice
- Every guest asked directly, never through a paid placement
- No questions submitted or approved in advance
- Nothing cut to protect a relationship
Want to be on the show?
If you have made something and there is a real story behind how, I want to hear about it. I read every pitch myself.