PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Alexander Payne and Hong Chau, director and actress of the film Downsizing.
Downsizing by Alexander Payne opened the 74th Venice International Film Festival. The director stopped by our FRED studio to chat about it, alongside actress Hong Chau. Payne talks about the writing process of the film, “writing is never fun,” while Chau tells our listeners about the character she plays.
Downsizing imagines what might happen if, as a solution to over-population, Norwegian scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall and propose a 200-year global transition from big to small. People soon realize how much further money goes in a miniaturized world, and with the promise of a better life, everyman Paul Safranek and wife Audrey decide to abandon their stressed lives in Omaha in order to get small and move to a new downsized community—a choice that triggers life-changing adventures.