Season 2 · Episode 43
ELECTION: Reese Witherspoon Goes Method and Alexander Payne’s Near Straight-to-Video Release
Hollywood Gold · Stay Gold Features
August 14, 202458m 46s
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Show Notes
Election, the brilliantly subversive film about an ambitious high school student's run for class president, launched director Alexander Payne's career. Producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa believed in Alex from the time they saw his UCLA short film, but the studio took some more convincing before he was hired. Albert and Ron take us inside the struggles that went into the making of Election, and how they expertly balanced the creative and business elements of filmmaking to launch a legacy.
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