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  • "Hello, this is Josh Safdie."

  • "And this is Benny Safdie."

  • "We're the directors of 'Uncut Gems.'

  • We're jumping in here after a good stretch

  • of Howard's life.

  • But he was just abandoned and ditched

  • at a practice facility, so he's a little concerned

  • about his gem.

  • And he's here back with his family, his domicile,

  • basically, his pack.

  • And we're meeting him in the middle

  • of a status exchange with another Long Island family.

  • What greater setting to be than in a school play,

  • a mandatory attendance thing.

  • And you're here with people who I think identify

  • setting more than anything."

  • "O.K."

  • "What are you going to do for Passover?

  • Is your sister coming?"

  • "Uh, yeah."

  • "What are doing?

  • Who do you got?"

  • "Watching for LeBron.

  • I got six different people playing six different games."

  • "Hey, we're all making salt. Hey!

  • Who tapped me? Who was that?"

  • "I call this the head turning scene

  • because there's so many head turns back and forth,

  • back and forth, between each person,

  • like perspective switches."

  • "What's going on in Howard's life.

  • And this here, the narrative here, these two gentlemen

  • are a reminder of the bigger threat in Howard's life,

  • the money that he owes, and figuring out

  • a way to get into it.

  • Overt narrative plotting is always

  • something we feel so self-conscious about,

  • so having it come through a--"

  • "Where you going?"

  • "Daddy's got to--"

  • "--game in jest with his kid.

  • The way he bonds with everybody is through jest,

  • and the classic tap shoulder gag actually

  • leads him to the reminder of the things that

  • are lurking behind him."

  • "And it was on this scene, I remember

  • the AD was trying to have everybody be quiet,

  • and we got very upset, because we wanted everybody

  • to be talking.

  • In this scenario, everybody needed

  • to be loud, because it needed to reflect a real auditorium.

  • And of course, it causes problems

  • later on with editing, but the whole point

  • is to get the performances to be real."

  • "This action sequence, as we'll call it,

  • we shot at the end of a 14, 15-hour day.

  • And I kind of like that pressure,

  • because I believe that violence is sloppy.

  • It is unchoreographed.

  • It is matter-of-fact.

  • And that little sequence in the hallway we just saw

  • was that.

  • And here--"

  • "This too."

  • "This as well."

  • "One take, remember?"

  • "And his daughter-- that's probably

  • one of the most embarrassing things

  • that can happen to you.

  • Your psychotic, maniacal, loving weird dad

  • is running through--"

  • "I actually love watching certain parts

  • of the movie when you know it was the last thing you filmed

  • on a day.

  • Something that always-- that scene in the hallway

  • is one of those."

  • "This sequence, this exterior sequence

  • here, Darius spent a day or two lighting,

  • I think a day of pre-lighting.

  • And Eric Bogosian, who plays Arno, his brother-in-law,

  • this is his introduction to his character,

  • and to meet him in slow motion where you can't hear him,

  • I find it to be even more menacing."

  • "And Eric actually said-- because he had done

  • that drive a bunch of times.

  • The first time he pulled up, and he

  • saw Sandler run out of that school

  • wearing loafers, running on that grass,

  • getting tackled by these guys, he says, O.K.,

  • this is a different kind of movie.

  • I remember when we did that scene,

  • it was a very complicated choreography with a big cart,

  • and a camera.

  • And you kind of feel the pressure of everybody saying,

  • oh, I wonder how they're going to do this with non-actors,

  • all this stuff.

  • And on the first take, everybody just nailed it.

  • It was very exciting."

"Hello, this is Josh Safdie."

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