Transcript - All-Access Pass: 40 Years of Bon Jovi
Director and EP Gotham Chopra and editor-producer Alex Trudeau Viriato unpack their Hulu doc series about the New Jersey glam rockers
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Michael Ruscio: Welcome to The Ankler In Conversation, Art & Crafts, the podcast. I’m your host, Michael Ruscio, ACE. Today, I’m pleased to interview director Gotham Chopra and editor Alex Trudeau Viriato about their working collaboration on Hulu’s docuseries Thank You, Good Night: The Bon Jovi Story.
Alex and Gotham, thank you for joining me.
Alex Trudeau Viriato and Gotham Chopra: Thanks for having us.
Michael Ruscio: You two have been fortunate to collaborate on a couple of projects, The Game That Changed Everything and Man in the Arena. Was there any doubt that you would be working together on this wonderful story?
Gotham Chopra: I don’t think so. When something works, you just keep on going back. I mean, that’s, you know, these things are, and it’s not just the two of us, obviously there’s an army of people. But you know, they’re called unscripted for a reason, I like to say, they never go according to plan. So, you know, you need smart, creative, hardworking, inspired people in the trenches with you, because you’re going to have to problem solve every step of the way. And, yeah, we’ve had success together. So, I think when something this big and special comes, you go back to the well, for sure, for me.
Alex Trudeau Viriato: I think this one had a unique one as well, where the subject watched something that we had done together, and he had noticed the style of it and came to us like, “We want you to do this,” that being Bon Jovi.
So I think it was, you know, let’s get the team back together who did that and let’s see how we can make something new. So it was a little bit different trajectory than just, let’s assemble a team from scratch. It was like, let’s get the band back together to make something similar to what was noticed.