• Filmmaker Lee Daniels (‘The Deliverance’) Finds His Light

  • Sep 1 2024
  • Length: 51 mins
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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 (5:00), Daniels’ relationship to spirituality (9:16), and his memories of directing theatre at eight-years-old (14:55). Then, we dive into the therapeutic quality of filmmaking (17:14), his work as a casting director at Warner Brothers in the 80s (19:48), and what it meant for Daniels to manage young performers like Morgan Freeman and Loretta Devine (23:38).

    On the back-half, he unpacks the tumultuous process of making his award-winning film Precious (32:00), the projects that followed in The Paperboy and The Butler (39:30), the rise of Empire and his paradigm-shifting work in Hollywood (41:10), the peace that guided him to make his new film (46:10), and what motivates him to keep working (50:31).

    Thoughts or future guest ideas? Email us at sf@talkeasypod.com.

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