{"id":5083,"date":"2010-04-22T01:52:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T05:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2010-07-28T10:12:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T14:12:19","slug":"a-podcast-with-nash-edgerton-director-of-the-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/?p=5083","title":{"rendered":"A podcast with Nash Edgerton, director of The Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5084\" title=\"the_square_poster1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/the_square_poster1-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/the_square_poster1-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/the_square_poster1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/>Australian stuntman Nash Edgerton made his first feature, <em>The Square<\/em>, back in 2008, but it was just released in the US.\u00a0 The film is a twisty noir that takes place in a small, insular town, similar to Henrik Ruben Genz&#8217;s <em>Terribly Happy<\/em> (which also got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/?p=5052\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">a podcast dedicated to it<\/span><\/a>).\u00a0 I interviewed Edgerton along with a writer from Film Threat (he&#8217;s the one with the husky voice) and the 14 minute podcast below covers many plot details about <em>The Square, <\/em>so be wary of spoilers (though the movie is so complicated that you&#8217;re not likely to connect the dots from listening to our interview). Other topics include, why he stocked his film with so many characters with mullets, whether or not Foster&#8217;s is really just an exported beer, his short fil<em>m Spider<\/em> (which has been attached to the theatrical release of <em>The Square<\/em>), <em>Not Quite Hollywood <\/em>and the Australian film industry in the 1970s, etc. There&#8217;s also a special treat at the end of the podcast: I tell a story about <em>Wolf Creek <\/em>that has nothing to do with <em>The Square<\/em>, I just really needed everyone to focus on me for a minute.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the podcast by clicking below or downloading it to your computer.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"audio-player1\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"300\" height=\"24\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerID=1&amp;soundFile=http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/audio\/NashEdgerton.mp3\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"audio\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"playerID=1&amp;soundFile=http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/audio\/NashEdgerton.mp3\" \/><embed id=\"audio-player1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"300\" height=\"24\" src=\"audio\/player.swf\" wmode=\"transparent\" menu=\"false\" quality=\"high\" flashvars=\"playerID=1&amp;soundFile=http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/audio\/NashEdgerton.mp3\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"\/audio\/NashEdgerton.mp3\">Download the full interview.<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<em>(Right-click, Save Link As&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4110\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5083-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/audio\/NashEdgerton.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/audio\/NashEdgerton.mp3\">http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/audio\/NashEdgerton.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/audio\/NashEdgerton.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/?powerpress_pinw=5083-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/audio\/NashEdgerton.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"NashEdgerton.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian stuntman Nash Edgerton made his first feature, The Square, back in 2008, but it was just released in the US.\u00a0 The film is a twisty noir that takes place in a small, insular town, similar to Henrik Ruben Genz&#8217;s Terribly Happy (which also got a podcast dedicated to it).\u00a0 I interviewed Edgerton along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5188,790,1199,6346,5117,6345,6340,6343,255,6269,5116,624,1013,6344,6347,6336,6338,5993,6342,4993,87,5189,3103,6337,6339,6341],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}