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Awards Season Recap with Production Designer James Pearse Connelly - "The Masked Singer" Feb 14, 2020

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On this episode I recap the award season and Art Director Guild awards with Production Designer James Pearce Connelly. We talk through each category and about the Oscar winning Production Design of "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood". "Parasite" "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", "Avengers: Endgame", "Chernobyl (https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=chernobyl&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8)", "The Big Bang Theory", "Drunk History", "Russian doll", "Toy Story 4".

Annie Beauchamp - Production Designer -"Black Mirror", "Top of the Lake" Jan 29, 2020

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In this episode I am talking with Australian Production Designer Annie Beauchamp. Her work includes Black Mirror, The Lego Movie, On Becoming a God in Central Florida, Top of the Lake: Season Two, Sleeping Beauty and Art Directing on on films like The Quiet American and Moulin Rouge! to name a few. Living and working in Australia, she also traveled to many locations includingSouth Africa, Brazil, Vietnam and the US in New Orleans and Los Angeles. She is currently nominated for an ADG award for her episode “Striking Vipers” in the Black Mirror series.

Patrick Tatopoulos - Production Designer - "Zack Snyder's Justice League", "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" Jan 22, 2020

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Currently nominated for an ADG award and a British Film Designers Guild (https://britishfilmdesigners.com/) award for his Production Design of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Patrick Tatopoulos is a force in the production design world. His talents have allowed him to work so many positions from illustrator, creature supervisor over to costume designer, producer, director and more. He seems almost too nice of a guy to be in this industry but you can hear his passion and his love to create come through in his amazing stories of films like Independence Day, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Stargate, Batman vs. Superman, Justice League and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

John Shaffner - Production Designer -"Friends", "The Big Bang Theory", "Two and a Half Man" Jan 13, 2020

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On this episode, My interview is with Production Designer John Schaffner who’s work has been consistently on TV for the last 25 years. Have you ever seen Friends? Two and a Half Men?, The Big Bang Theory?? Mom?? You gonna watch The #SAG awards this weekend?… he’s done it. He has such a plethora of long running hit multi camera shows on his resume, I don’t think he has had a break in at least 25 years!

The Good Place - ADG awards Jan 09, 2020

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The Good Place is nominated for an ADG award for our work for this last season. I thought it would be fun to get together with Production Designer: Ian Phillips, Art Director: Adam Rowe and Graphic Designer: Graham Radcliff. We have an in depth conversation about the sets and graphics of the show. We talk about the Bad Place and Demon-Con, Janet’s jail, set extensions, how we finally built Mindy’s house on stage and all those funny easter egg graphics that you gotta pause real quick to catch.

David Smith - Set Decorator - Pt.2 - "The Holiday", "Argo", "Gone Girl", "Unbelievable" Dec 30, 2019

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Here is part two of my interview with Set Decorator David Smith, and to be honest, the man has so much to say, and it’s all gems! He has such a wonderful career decorating sets for tv and film. We get into some of his specific projects like his first film Shop Girl, working with Nancy Meyers on The Holiday. Working with the same Production Designer for 12 projects, filming on locations for some of his films like Last Holiday and The Vampire’s Apprentice. Being an additional Set Decorator on projects like Argo, Gone Girl, Vice and Unbelievable. We also talk about budgeting and working deals with prop houses and talking over the budget with producers.

David Smith - Set Decorator -"The Holiday", "Argo", "Gone Girl", "Crazy Stupid Love," Dec 13, 2019

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In the episode I talk with Set Decorator David Smith. David has a 30 plus year carere which includes films like Crazy Stupid Love, Little Fockers, Imagine That, The Holiday, Shopgirl to name a few. He talks a lot about getting into the New York union and the transition to Los Angeles. His Set Decorating includes TV shows like the recent Unbelievable on Netflix, Parenthood, Army Wives, The Guardian, NYPD Blue, LA Law, Guiding Light and As the World Turns. He has been nominated for three Emmys and 4 Daytime Emmys. He’s a sweet and generous man who has great taste in paisley shirts!

Jeannine Oppewall - Production Designer - Pt.2 "Pleasantville", "Seabiscuit", "Catch Me If You Can" Nov 11, 2019

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In this part two of my interview with Jeannine Oppewall we talk about her ADG lifetime achievement award, how she picks her projects, how she dreams of wallpaper, working with producers and budgets, and her interaction with writers on projects.

Jeannine Oppewall - Production Designer - "Catch Me If You Can", "Seabiscuit", "LA Confidential", "Pleasantville" Oct 10, 2019

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In this episode I speak with the Production Design Queen of Period Film: Jeannine Oppewall. Her films include Catch Me If You Can, Seabiscuit, LA Confidential, Pleasantville, The Good Shepherd, The Bridges of Madison County. In this first of two episodes she talks about her beginnings of working beside Charles Eames and how she started in films.

Dave Mandel - Writer/Director/Producer - Pt.2 "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Seinfeld", VEEP" Sep 26, 2019

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This is part two of my interview with Dave Mandel. We talk about how the dialogue of Curb Your Enthusiasm morphs itself from an outline to the hilarious show that you see. What his favorite episode of Seinfeld is, BONUS! He has two! How they got the Curb/Seinfeld reunion together, his time at SNL and how it schooled him in show running. His feature Eurotrip, the VEEP finale, and how sad I really thought it was, writing for the whimsical The Cat in the Hat, an amazing story about Yoda, his co authoring of the book the design of Star Wars… I mean, I geek out with this man!

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