E233 - Directing Continuing Drama to Apple TV Series with Jim O'Hanlon

This is episode 33 in the second season of The Directors Take Podcast.

In this week’s episode your hosts Marcus Anthony Thomas and Oz Arshad are joined by Director Jim O’Hanlon, whose directorial work has been nominated for BAFTAs, Golden Globes and Emmy’s. Jim began his career working in continuing Drama on Coronation Street and has since gone on to direct Inside Number 9, 100 Streets with Idris Elba, Netflix’s The Punisher, Catastrophe with Sharon Horgan & Rob Delaney and also on Apple TV’s hit show Trying. 

 

Jim is a fountain of knowledge and in this episode we get right down into his process of what being a working director is to him. This chat includes:

-What is directing?

-How did you begin your career and enter the industry? 

-What is tone?

-How do you pick projects? 

-How does he work between mediums and genres?

-What is his directing playbook after getting hired? 

-What is your approach to blocking? 

-How do you communicate and work with actors of varying levels of experience? 

 

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Nugget of the week

Jim: The Holdovers Directed by Alexander Payne - Directors UK Podcast

Marcus: Raging Bull Directed by Martin Scorsese

Oz: Oz was inspired by a recent conversation we had with students at Oxford University.

 

Credits

Music by Oliver Wegmüller

 

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