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 ).
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