Christopher Columbus - Summer Staff Picks

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

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Tv & Film, Music, Music Interviews, Arts, Performing Arts, Film Interviews

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🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Our staff picks continue at Here’s The Thing, where every other week throughout the summer, members of our team select their favorite interviews from the archives. This week, we revisit Alec’s 2013 interview with acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Columbus. As a director, Columbus has brought to life some of the biggest American family films in history: Adventures in Babysitting, Home Alone, and Mrs. Doubtfire. He also wrote the screenplays of Gremlins and The Goonies, and produced and directed the first two Harry Potter films. Despite this success, Columbus admits that he “always, to this day, [feels] like [he’s] gonna walk on a movie and get fired.” He reveals to Alec what it was like working with brilliant improvisers like John Candy and Robin Williams, how he got his start writing while working nights in an aluminum factory and why it’s important to him to keep a low-profile.

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0:31.8	Hey, it's Zach McNeese.
0:33.2	I'm one of the producers of Here's the Thing, and this week for our Summer Staff Pick,
0:37.2	I want to share with you one of my favorite episodes from all the way back in 2013.
0:43.2	I love movies, and I really enjoy listening to stories from filmmakers about how they got their start,
0:48.6	and the turning points that shaped their careers.
0:51.6	Chris Columbus may not be quite as recognizable a household name
0:55.3	as some of his peers in Hollywood, but I have no doubt that you've seen
0:59.2	and cherished many of his films.
1:01.6	Here's Alec with Chris Columbus.
1:04.8	Chris Columbus is brought to the screen some of the biggest American family films of the
1:09.4	last 20 years. Adventures in babysitting, home alone, Mrs. Doubtfire.
1:14.8	He also produced and directed the first two Harry Potter films and produced the third as well.
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