Bonus Interview with Randy Frakes (Pt. 1)

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Tv & Film, Drama, Film History, Fiction

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Bonus Interview. BLOCKBUSTER series creator Matt Schrader asks author and co-director of James' short film Xenogenesis Randy Frakes about James' early motivations, nearly electrocuting Bill Wisher on set, and James rising through the ranks of Roger Corman's studio. This award-winning 10-part original miniseries stars Ross Marquand (The Walking Dead, Avengers: Endgame) as up-and-coming writer-director James Cameron, and tells the story of how he fought through decades of personal struggles and career setbacks to assemble the most expensive and grueling movie production of all-time, Titanic, that nearly sank two film studios. If you enjoyed BLOCKBUSTER, please consider a small donation to help the creators continue making this series at http://GetBlockbuster.com/support and receive bonus perks, and your name in the credits! Facebook: http://facebook.com/BlockbusterPod Twitter: http://twitter.com/Blockbuster_Pod Instagram: http://instagram.com/blockbusterpod Follow series creator @MattSchrader on Twitter 🏆 BLOCKBUSTER is now an award-winning podcast! Winner of Adweek's Creative Podcast of the Year, two NYF Radio Awards, and Webby Awards Honoree for Best Miniseries. Thanks in advance for sharing BLOCKBUSTER with a friend! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Schrader and this is a special bonus interview episode.
0:07.9	I'm sitting alongside Randy Frakes and accomplished author and screenwriter of science fiction
0:13.1	stories and an award-winning investigative journalist before that.
0:17.5	And one of James Cameron's closest friends before anybody knew his name.
0:22.2	Randy, thank you for having us here.
0:24.1	Thank you for inviting me.
0:25.5	I want to go back to the start.
0:27.6	You met Jim through a girlfriend.
0:31.1	What was it that you had in common?
0:32.7	Well, the way he approached her in the psych class, and he said all the good-looking girls
0:39.2	go to psych class, which is why he took psych.
0:42.5	He said she told him that he spoke the same way I did that we talked about science fiction.
0:48.6	We talked about life philosophically in a very similar way using even similar words.
0:54.2	And so she thought it would be good if we met each other.
0:57.3	So I met her in the quad between classes.
1:00.8	I was also going to the same school she was going to Florting College.
1:05.3	And I see her coming accompanied by this big tall guy who at the time had a red beard
1:11.9	and long hair.
1:12.9	Looks like a Viking or a biker.
1:15.5	And I thought, what's this all about?
1:18.3	And she comes up and she introduces him.
1:20.2	And it was like we were two dogs sniffing a bone, you know, and checking each other out.
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