Steve McQueen on
Widows 2018
McQueen saw the Lynda La Plante TV series at 13 and identified with the widows; he and Gillian Flynn moved the story to Chicago to fold in race, politics, and gender.
The Big Picture · Interview
Steve McQueen on ‘Widows’ and Reinventing the Heist Movie | Interview (Ep. 100)
November 19, 2018/ 33 min/ Sean Fennessey
Sean Fennessey talks with Steve McQueen about turning a 1983 British miniseries into a Chicago heist movie about four women, and why he thinks the genre had no rules to begin with.
3 films across 1 segment.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
In conversation
Steve McQueen on
Ocean's Eleven 2001
The heist template McQueen is deliberately not making: he wanted the domestic stuff, like childcare and dogs, that heist movies usually skip.
Steve McQueen on
Some Like It Hot 1959
His answer to the last-great-thing-you've-seen question. He rewatched it and marveled at how fast Billy Wilder gets moving: a train to Florida inside ten minutes.
Also mentioned raised along the way
McQueen's filmography, cited in the intro HungerShame12 Years a Slave
In passing Creed II
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
TV Widows (the 1983 Lynda La Plante ITV miniseries Widows is adapted from)
Cross-promo Villains (new Ringer podcast promoted in the cold open)