'Joker' Producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff on Gun Violence Backlash

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Charlize Theron, Peter Chernin, David Heyman, Dan Lin, Debra Martin Chase and Emma Tillinger Koskoff joined for the annual Oscar Producer Roundtable.

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00:00obviously Joker has been a huge box office success but there was some controversy around it did you

00:09see that coming as a producer when you were working on it not while we were making it really

00:14there was a little pushback at times prior to getting it officially greenlit you know it's

00:21some concerns about some of the you know gun violence understandably but once we got you

00:29know locked and loaded and the budget and up and running every everything was great and the trouble

00:36didn't start brewing until we screened it really for the first time and just wanted to be very very

00:40aware and careful given the subject matter and uh yeah it's been it's been it's been interesting i'm

00:47just glad that we opened and acquire it quiet on the western front the box office has been amazing

00:56so that's wonderful but just that um you know people with beta breath that we can just to make

01:01sure yeah it was it was a nail biter for sure

01:04how did you react when the sort of de-aging of the actors came up as the way that that movie was

01:16going to be made you know we had pablo hellman from ilm as our uh visual effects supervisor on silence

01:21and he'd been reading about this project and he's the one who approached us and said i think we can

01:28do something you know there had been three four years of r&d before we decided to make the movie

01:33and we saw a test and we saw what it could be and took it from there i mean it was very very

01:37very very promising what we saw and it was it was very very easy technology to work with you know

01:44there was no head cams no dots no you mean you were free to do what you needed to do because it was

01:50all essentially done in post the camera rigs were easy to work with it didn't add time to our days

01:57it was amazing

01:58my film joker the themes in that film are important at this time in in the world i know it's very

02:11controversial i'm not trying to get into into that but i was very um moved by that script and you know

02:18have a lot of empathy for the themes going on in that film and and i think that it's important to

02:25really look at those those individuals who are suffering from mental illness and really try to

02:32find some love and empathy for these people for me the themes in that movie were empathy and you know

02:38feeling uh sad and empathetic for that character i do want to touch on the sort of power dynamic

02:43between the producer and the director what do you do when they tell you something and you're just not

02:49sure that's going to happen they want a three and a half hour movie they have a very specific vision

02:54for their story what do you do how do you deal with that mine is neither one of mine really takes no

02:59for an answer so i have to i'm trained very well in the scorsese filmmaking world where you know he's

03:07uncompromising and extremely exacting and um so i have learned now over 16 years with him um how to

03:16protect and cover for those those instances so i feel like silence was insane that movie to get made

03:24from start to finish and i really i learned so much on that and i learned moving forward i knew what to

03:29look for and what to cover for uh but but neither one wants to and i've only really produced for two

03:35todd and marty and um you know they're they they will not compromise and you have to figure out

03:42our job to really keep them safe and protected and with their actor actors and cast and in you know

03:50in their locations and their sets and making the days but maneuvering behind the scenes to somehow

03:55make it all make it all happen and that's that's how i that's how i work

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