Lulu Garcia Navarro

Everyone now can be a star on social media. Yeah.

Everyone now can be a star on social media. Yeah.

Are there parts of your life that you still feel like you're trying to understand through your art or things that you haven't quite worked out yet?

Are there parts of your life that you still feel like you're trying to understand through your art or things that you haven't quite worked out yet?

After the break and an unexpected delay between our two conversations due to my appendix bursting, I call Rami back. We talk about some lighter stuff, including why teamwork is at the heart of his creative process.

After the break and an unexpected delay between our two conversations due to my appendix bursting, I call Rami back. We talk about some lighter stuff, including why teamwork is at the heart of his creative process.

There was a series of unfortunate events that ended up with me and my sister being operated on by the same surgeon. Whoa. Yeah, it was totally bizarre.

There was a series of unfortunate events that ended up with me and my sister being operated on by the same surgeon. Whoa. Yeah, it was totally bizarre.

Yeah, wouldn't that be lovely? We got matching nose jobs. So anyway... It was a lot.

Yeah, wouldn't that be lovely? We got matching nose jobs. So anyway... It was a lot.

All right. I was thinking about you this week when I saw all the turmoil in the markets and I was wondering what it was like to have life imitate art because you're filming this story about billionaires in a crisis and we are seeing billionaires in a crisis IRL. I mean, does it help the performance? Were you talking about it? Like, were there any rewrites in real time?

All right. I was thinking about you this week when I saw all the turmoil in the markets and I was wondering what it was like to have life imitate art because you're filming this story about billionaires in a crisis and we are seeing billionaires in a crisis IRL. I mean, does it help the performance? Were you talking about it? Like, were there any rewrites in real time?

What does that what does that do?

What does that what does that do?

We've talked a lot about the self-reflective nature of your work, and you've spent a lot of this first part of your career making your own stuff, telling your stories. But now you're also in other people's projects much more prominently. Is there something freeing about that?

We've talked a lot about the self-reflective nature of your work, and you've spent a lot of this first part of your career making your own stuff, telling your stories. But now you're also in other people's projects much more prominently. Is there something freeing about that?

You know, it struck me in thinking both about the projects you've created and and the projects you've chosen to be a part of, that they're really group projects in a lot of ways. You know, Jesse Armstrong, Yorgos Lanthimos, who directed Poor Things, are really known for their emphasis on ensemble casts. And the way you talk about your work seems really similar.

You know, it struck me in thinking both about the projects you've created and and the projects you've chosen to be a part of, that they're really group projects in a lot of ways. You know, Jesse Armstrong, Yorgos Lanthimos, who directed Poor Things, are really known for their emphasis on ensemble casts. And the way you talk about your work seems really similar.

I'm curious, first, if that impression seems right to you. And if so, can you just talk a little bit about why that kind of communal creative work appeals to you so much?

I'm curious, first, if that impression seems right to you. And if so, can you just talk a little bit about why that kind of communal creative work appeals to you so much?