00:00Hi, how are you?
00:01I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Thank you so much. How are you?
00:04I'm very good, thank you. It's good to talk to you.
00:07Likewise, likewise. So, straight right in.
00:11Having a miniseries and then you have Stephen King as the executive producer.
00:15You yourself are an expert on the horror genre.
00:18I want to know the jamming and the brainstorming between the two of you. What's that like?
00:23Oh, it's incredible. You know, Stephen King's been my hero since I was a kid.
00:27Like, he's very much the reason I want to tell stories.
00:31And so, for something like this, this is our fourth time working together.
00:38The conversations, you know, at the very beginning, I'm not going to do anything unless Steve wants to do it.
00:44You know, like, I'm not going to risk this relationship at this point for anything.
00:48So, the conversations were really exciting.
00:51We both had the same feeling at the beginning, which was, why do Carrie?
00:56Like, it's been done. It's been done a lot. It's been done perfectly.
01:00But I just couldn't stop thinking about the idea.
01:03And I really felt like I had a very new way into it that required a lot of changes.
01:10And that's where I was scared to have the conversation.
01:13Because I've never done that with Stephen King's work before.
01:15I've always tried to be very faithful.
01:17But I said, I think I have a way into Carrie.
01:20It's a lot of changes.
01:21It's very different.
01:23But here it is.
01:24And I laid the whole thing out.
01:25And I sent him a document that had the whole season written out.
01:29And he read it.
01:30And he came back.
01:30And he said, actually, this is very exciting.
01:33And he had a bunch of questions.
01:34He said, oh, well, what about this character?
01:36What are we going to do with this?
01:37And this is all new.
01:39I said, yeah, that's kind of it.
01:40It's a whole new thing.
01:41And then he got excited.
01:42And he wanted to do it.
01:44And once he was excited, then I said, yep, we'll go ahead and do this.
01:50And talking about someone who portrays the titular role, it said that it's very difficult to extract the best out
01:57of child artists or children.
02:00Because they think very fast.
02:04Their mood changes very frequently.
02:05How is it working for you with her?
02:07And then they extract the very best from her.
02:10Oh, well, and this is the amazing thing about Summer.
02:12So we looked at 1,400 actors to find Summer.
02:17It was a huge, huge casting.
02:19And Summer plays a 15-year-old so convincingly that even I would look at her and think that it's
02:29like, yes, this is a teenager.
02:32Summer's a 22-year-old woman.
02:34So, yeah, Summer's usually all of the tricks that I would typically use with younger actors, not at all necessary
02:43with Summer.
02:44So she would show me very, very often how the scene would need to go.
02:49Summer's so incredible.
02:51She's so remarkable.
02:52And one of the strongest women I've ever met.
02:56And I think this version of Carrie that she creates, who is so curious and kind and smart, and you
03:03just want to protect her.
03:05You just want the world to not do what you know it's going to do to her.
03:09I think her performance is extraordinary.
03:14And she was a wonderful leader on set, which is the thing that I most admired about her.
03:20She really led her cast and took care of everyone and set an amazing example.
03:29And I just have a minute left, so I want to ask this one question about you and Stephen both.
03:35Which is your favorite work of Stephen King and vice versa, which is his favorite work of yours?
03:40Whoa, I think my, that's, oh, this is a tough question.
03:44I think my favorite, The Dark Tower, the entire Dark Tower series to me is it.
03:52And I'd have to ask him, but I think, I know his favorite movie I've ever made is The Life
03:57of Chuck.
04:00And he loved that movie so much.
04:04But yeah, I would guess that's his favorite.
04:08Perfect.
04:08So that would be my time.
04:09Thank you so much, Mike.
04:10And I wish you all the best for Carrie on the 9th of October.
04:13Please take it.
04:14Thank you so much.
04:14Thank you so much.
04:15It was a pleasure talking to you.
04:16I hope you have a great day.
04:17Likewise.
