Mike White on 'Brad's Status,' social media and ambition

The Business

Mike White on 'Brad's Status,' social media and ambition

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Published on Sep 18, 2017, 2:30:00 PM
Total time: 00:28:43

Episode Description

In writer-director Mike White's new movie Brad's Status, Ben Stiller plays a man consumed with jealousy of friends from college, based on their social media. White tells us why he wanted to make a movie about ambition in the age of Instagram, and the challenge of making humanist movies when the studios only want the next superhero franchise.

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