In our conversation with writer/director Alex Russell, he discusses how he felt he transitioned from a writer to a director during post-production,  how a random person's feedback during a coloring session influenced a scene's pivotal turning point,  and how he initially missed Christopher Nolan's DGA nomination call.

I chatted with Lindsay Pugh, who broke down the specific design choices for the three main female characters—Hedda, Eileen, and Thea—explaining how their costumes were crafted to reflect their personalities, power dynamics, and psychological states.

Caton discusses the process of finding Sammie, what it meant to embody the film’s central themes of balancing religious values with the pursuit of the "Black American dream,"  and his collaborative experience of co-writing with Göransson and Smith.