Filmmaker Lee Daniels (‘The Deliverance’) Finds His Light - podcast episode cover

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

Sep 01, 202451 min
--:--
--:--
Download Metacast podcast app
Listen to this episode in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more

Episode description

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 [email protected].

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android
Open in Metacast
Filmmaker Lee Daniels (‘The Deliverance’) Finds His Light | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast