Director David Yates talks about the core of Pain Hustlers, starring Emily Blunt, the merits and fears of AI, and working with Netflix.
The Big Picture Netflix’s scandal comedy, Pain Hustlers, is in the vein of The Wolf of Wall Street and, more recently, Dumb Money, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Director David Yates, of the Harry Potter franchise fame, helmed the production with Emily Blunt starring as Liza Drake, a single mother who gets wrapped up in a pharmaceutical nightmare in the wake of the opioid crisis.
DAVID YATES: I would probably say, “Why don’t you watch State of Play,” which is a thriller, which is about journalism, which I love. I love stories about journalism. I don't know why we don't make more films about journalists because there's something quite interesting about people who have to uncover the truth, especially in a post-truth world, where the truth is kind of like a moving target. So yes, State of Play, I would suggest.YATES: Oh, that's a good question.
I wanted to make a contemporary story that was part of the national conversation, and the opioid crisis certainly is. And I also wanted to make a film that was entertaining. I did not want to make a serious film that would push people away or make them feel like they were eating vegetables.
I think anyone, you know what I mean? If you get told you can make a million dollars, but you're gonna sell stuff that could kill you, there's a lot of people who are still gonna say, “It's their fault for taking it,” or whatever. Money corrupts.Which is why it's great that it's in the medical industry for profit. I'm fascinated by the editing process because it really is where it all comes together.
YATES: I kind of knew they'd sort of fizzle together. I just had a feeling. When we weren't filming on set, if they were together, they'd always be hanging out together on set, building that rapport, sort of getting time together, joking around together. So by the time they got on screen together, it was very present, the chemistry that they had. So, I honestly wasn't really too worried about it. I had felt it would be fine.
YATES: It was pretty much very similar to the way I work with Warner Brothers. They're very supportive. They've got a huge machine that is there for things that you may need. We had some very nice execs. Usually, when you do a cut, you present it, they've got notes, and my process with notes is you always fully engage. So you sort of push back on the things that you don't think will work or help, and you really embrace the things that do.
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