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Mike White on 'Brad's Status,' social media and ambition
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.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenThe divide between who we are and who we want people to think we are is the anxious space filmmaker Mike White explores in his new movie Brad's Status. White, whose screenwriting credits include The Good Girl,' School of Rock and Beatriz at Dinner, tells us about finding backers for his new movie, about actually having a nervous breakdown while making a sitcom called Cracking Up, and about teaming up with his dad on The Amazing Race -- twice!
Photo: Filmmaker Mike White on the set of Brad's Status.(Jonathan Wenk/Amazon Studios)
