Winner
Summary
Sundance Film Festival dabbles in striking films and documentaries alike , butWinnerstraddles the argument between both . Filmmaker Susanna Fogel ’s latest effort is based on the life of Reality Winner , the NSA declarer from Texas who blew the tin whistle on Russia ’s hacking of the 2016 election and was punished severely for it . task with embodying Reality is Fogel ’s frequent collaborator Emilia Jones , best known forCat Personand the Oscar - winningCODA .
Winnerdoesn’t simply dramatize the events that lead to world leaking the political science documents proving that the U.S. politics was dwell to its constituents , it begins in her youth and flesh her out as a fully - realized someone . The tone take a hop between sardonic and solemn , trail world ’s humour and parse her emotions for the audience like a diary splosh onto the big screen . Joining Jones in this endeavor are Connie Britton and Zach Galifianakis as Reality ’s parent , Kathryn Newton ( Ant - Man and the Wasp : Quantumania ) as her sister , and Danny Ramirez ( The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ) as her boyfriend .
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Screen Rantinterviewed Jones , Newton , Fogel , and atSundance Film Festival . The actors explicate what drew to them to their purpose found on real - life hoi polloi , while the director , composer , and production designer partake in how they plunge themselves in Reality ’s life to land out the most three - dimensional adaptation of her story .
Cast & Crew Talk Winner At Sundance
Susanna Fogel
Screen Rant : What was the turn full stop for you in telling the tarradiddle the way that you are now ?
Susanna Fogel : It ’s interesting . It ’s a motion-picture show we ’ve been trying to make for many , many old age — like a lot of the movie at Sundance are . And the timing has gone from big to trade good to uncollectible to good through the journeying of gain it .
There was a full point of fourth dimension during COVID , when Trump was chair , when nobody wanted a political report of any variety . Everyone was like , " I postulate escapism . I do n’t desire this . " And now I think , as the world is in a really complicated spot in damage of the geopolitics of everything , hoi polloi are wanting to engage in it . It ’s a great time for a story about a young cleaning woman who amount from nothing and became this function modeling in a way , but also a martyr in another style . For us to appear at what happened with her and how our election systems are diseased , basically , and how everything structurally is falling aside . What do you do if you ’re a disillusioned young somebody ?
I think it ’s hopefully really exit to speak to young hoi polloi who do n’t make love how to participate , and they do n’t know whether they should just check into out and give up on their governing or attempt to press back on stuff and nonsense — and even what the moral philosophy are of that . I think people are ready to take some of those ideas on again because the humans feels like it ’s pretty dire . Hopefully , through a funny and irreverent person , we can make them do that .
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Emilia Jones
Screen Rant : You are back at Sundance with Susanna Fogel . What do you wish best about this partnership ?
Emilia Jones : Yeah , once again . We love each other . I have sex Susanna . I get it on her as a person and as a theater director , and I think that ’s a heavy combining . She can transform a scene with her natural tweaks , and she ’s so pushy . She always labour me , and she ’s so giving as a film director . She ’s such an actor ’s music director , which I love .
We just we had a great time withCat Person , and then Winner was so different because it was a different bailiwick issue , but I enjoy it just as much . I hope I can wreak with Susanna for the relief of my life .
Winner is a biographical comedy by director Susanna Fogel that premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The film retells the story of Reality Winner, an NSA contractor who leaked information about Russian interference during the presidential election of 2016.
Kathryn Newton
Screen Rant : What first cast you to Susanna ’s rendition of Reality ’s narration ?
Kathryn Newton : Yeah , I imagine the first matter that drew me was just Susanna . I love her films , I call back she ’s incredible filmmaker , and she sympathize what it is to just be a full human . When you see this moving picture , you find like you ’re a part of the whole world . It ’s not just Reality ’s earthly concern ; you see everything about her and what act upon her .
And for me , I felt like it was about so much . When you make one determination , it change your whole aliveness . I think that ’s what I was drawn to . You do n’t have to be this important person who presses a button that changes the domain . you could change your earthly concern every solar day , in very small manner . Or possibly , badly , by the detent of a button . peradventure you send a text message to the incorrect person . You know what I think ? Every decision we make seems little , but it ’s a very big deal in the scheme of thing .
What about Brittany Winner did you sense was vital to bring to the projection screen ?
Kathryn Newton : I remember the vital thing about her is her brain . She ’s an incredible scientist , she ’s a chemist , and she has brilliant intellect . And her life story was forever change by her sis , as everyone ’s lifetime is by the people that we love in our in our lives ; who we ’re work by and who we surround ourselves with . You know what they say : you are who you hang out with , correct ?
This is a really interesting item of view of that . Because even though they ’re sisters , and they spend every day together , Reality exchange her babe ’s lifespan incessantly . This movie is a small windowpane into that . But I think that was my purpose in this film , to show how much it affect one mortal .
She ’s here today , and we had breakfast this morning . I met her daughter for the first time . We just expend a lot of prison term talking on the phone , FaceTiming , and seeing her cat . She has a cool podcast , and you should check it out . It ’s about chemistry , and you ’ll learn a deal . She ’s super cunning and wizard on it as well , and I just listened to that every day . She ’s just a really cool , grounded real mortal who has a brilliant mind .
Now that theYoung Avengers are lento being introducedto the MCU , what parts of Cassie Lang ’s life would you wish to see explored in a movie about them ?
Kathryn Newton : I ’d wish to see her on a team . I sense like for me when I was in eminent school on my golf squad , championship ring properly here , I was haunt with being number one . I require to be the team captain , and my coach was like , " No captain , that ’s not how we do it here . We ’re all equal , and be on a team and deliver the goods and mislay together . " So I feel like that ’s something that everyone can have-to doe with to , is have to be together on the squad on the rise and be together in trenches . So , I ’d like to see some more of that .
I wish being on squad ; I think that ’s why I like making movies , and I mean that ’s what ’s special about Sundance . It feels like you ’re a part of a squad versus just like , " Here ’s my movie . Watch it . " You ’re more interested in the people who made it and the process of making it . Making independent film is voiceless — way different than a Marvel movie . Marvel ’s the most fun I ’ve ever had , but Winner was fun too . It prompt me why I wanted to be an actor .
Heather McIntosh
Screen Rant : What rend you into Susanna ’s approach toWinner ?
Heather McIntosh : I roll in the hay Susanna ’s fading to the story and her as a mortal , and [ her option ] to attend at the full breadth of Winner as a person . She ’s not just one thing ; you could really see the nuance . I feel like it ’s almost its own statement of , " This is a real lifetime human being . This is a full fleshed out , complicated person that ’s not one affair , or just one other thing . " I feel like so many times in charwoman ’s stories , you kind of get nail . " Well , now we know what you are ! " To be able-bodied to find this really dynamic person and where she add up from and her sense of justice was just really sinewy .
I lie with working with Susanna ; she ’s the respectable . I score Cat Person last year with her , so any probability to get back in the room was lovely .
Did that give you extra tachygraphy in the collaboration unconscious process ?
Heather : McIntosh : I feel like when we were working on Cat Person , the film structure was so establish on less . We did n’t want to push the audience to be like , " Okay , this is how I feel now . I get this fib . I recognize what it ’s drop dead to be . " We had to really maltreat back a little and just let the report subsist and let the audience figure out the move , then slow sneak in and work up .
There ’s a niggling bit of that here , but I palpate like I fuck off to let it rend a trivial second more in this one . I get to do some really funky stuff at the beginning and some rock’n’roll guitar moments . It ’s just additional sport .
Sarah K. White
Screen Rant : What first sparked your stake when it come to Susanna ’s approach to Reality ’s story ?
Sarah K. White : I was really excited about the agency that she was looking at the comprehensive experience of world ’s life . Using that as a templet to bring up her energy and her spirit , and to tell her tale of how she became the somebody who would be where she was and make the decisiveness she made .
There are flock of Wikipedia - corresponding projects around her story , because it is so compelling , and everybody wants to know every contingent . But taking a more evocative advance , I believe , was really exciting . And it was exciting to see that come together in the end .
What are the first steps that you take when it comes to the production design of something dress in the not - too - removed yesteryear , where you have the subjects at handwriting ?
Sarah K. White : It ’s really working with the especial slice and details that tell the tarradiddle ; make water trusted that you’re able to transmit the look of the multitude with the interview . You ’re connecting those two part , so there were certain elements of Reality ’s bedroom that I was able to tattle to her about . She would record up paper to the bulwark and paint on it , and her wall was a sheet , so we were able-bodied to do some of that detail . pass water her dwelling house palpate authentically Texas was something that was a little tricky shooting in Winnipeg , but we were able to really commit that together , and it made it really special .
You ’ve also worked on some amazing show likeSwarmandThe Flight Attendant . What is your mystery to find the soul of a project ?
Sarah K. White : I guess that , for me , every account is really different and exciting and unequalled . That ’s why I care output intention . I train as an interior room decorator , and I incur in that praxis , it was really severe to continue to flourish your visual style . But in this industriousness , not only do I get to tell the account of a variety of different multitude , but there are difference at an economic level and people who have dissimilar backstories . That was what always concern me about design ; how to patronize the human in a human surround .
About Winner
Reality Winner is a glorious young misfit from a Texas border town who chance her morals take exception while serving as an NSA declarer . A sarcastic , gun - loving , vegan , Lawrence Peter Berra , and CrossFit fanatical , world is an unlawful whistle-blower who finish up being prosecuted for expose Russia ’s hacking of the 2016 election .
Winnerpremiered on January 20 at Sundance Film Festival and is currently try distribution .
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succeeder is a biographical comedy by director Susanna Fogel that premier at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival . The film ingeminate the story of world Winner , an NSA contractor who leaked selective information about Russian interference during the presidential election of 2016 .
