Landing Top-Tier Talent for 'The Dreadful' w/Director Natasha Kermani - Just Shoot It 515

Natasha Kermani talks about casting Sophie Turner in her latest film “The Dreadful” / and it’s amazing how she connected with Sophie and demonstrated why this project was a great fit for her trajectory as an actor. But when Matt and Oren dig into the details of the one thing Natasha said in her letter that sealed the deal, they get a big surprise. This is a great episode that explores Natasha’s love for the details, discovering Cornwall, and finding the right combinations of textures, imagery and dialect to tell this story. With Kit Harington and Marcia Gay Harden also on board, this was a film that had to deliver. And Natasha shot it in just 18 days. Finding the right connection with a DP to make such a tight schedule work, without having to panic, can be tricky. And Natasha talks about how she never threw out the shotlist, but always stayed committed to rewriting each day, to keep the creative work intact with the vision. From specialized dialects developed just for this film, to finding locations to which she specifically wrote scenes of the film, it’s an amazing story of an auteur at work. And through all of this she brought her daughter into the world, and you get to see her on the pod! This is the episode that shows great work can be done while raising a family in LA. Yes, you too can find the time to make family and work as a filmmaker a lifestyle! Find Natasha on IG @natakerm --- Help our Patreon! Matt's Endorsement: Italian Paperclips from Dell'era Giuseppe Oren's Endorsement: Get a DIT who will upload to iCloud as you go without waiting til the end of the shoot. Natasha's Endorsement: KUSC classical radio and just listening t o the radio in general. Chuck Kinnane's Endorsement from last time: Riehle's Select Popcorn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Landing Top-Tier Talent for 'The Dreadful' w/Director Natasha Kermani - Just Shoot It 515 is an episode from Just Shoot It: A Podcast about Filmmaking, Screenwriting and Directing by Filmmakers Matt Enlow & Oren Kaplan.

This episode is 1:26:35 long.

This episode was published on Feb 19, 2026.

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