Pussy Riot

It was awesome.

So if I remember correctly, my dad asks him, so do you want to like die on the mic essentially? And he goes, uh, Greg, I want to die on the mic or by a jealous husband.

I'm looking at him because I'm standing right there, and it's like, you're Dick Enberg.

I didn't say that.

No, what was the, but then Costas, remember? Oh, yes.

He got the pink eye and he goes, the band Pussy Riot.

Did he say that? Bob Costas dropping that on

live television.

NBC's coverage of the Olympics.

He's got two giant pink eyes and Pussy Riot.

I mean, I played that a hundred times.

Greg got so mad.

No, what was the, but then Costas, remember? Oh, yes.

He got the pink eye and he goes, the band Pussy Riot.

Did he say that? Bob Costas dropping that on

live television.

NBC's coverage of the Olympics.

He's got two giant pink eyes and Pussy Riot.

I mean, I played that a hundred times.

Greg got so mad.

Yeah, and we don't have to talk too much about the last couple years, but protest music and feminist music and just music that, you know, people are talking about what matters to them and what they care about and feminist rage still continues.

And I love seeing like new artists come out and release songs about this and just like young people listening to this music too with Kesha, Halsey, Chapel Roan, Pussy Riot.

I love Pussy Riot.

So...

It continues.

Um, uh, because the music had this blend of contemporary and classic, um, uh, And so, like, Mimi had on the walls all of these pictures with frame lights over them, which was a collaboration between her and Bradley King, with whom I'd already been collaborating for years at that point.

And some of those pictures were, like, very pastoral old Russian paintings, but some of them were, like, there was a picture of Pussy Riot on the walls.

Like, they sort of had that stylist or time... timeline mixture with the costumes it felt very important to me that the characters be in period costume because you can't i don't think an audience can meet natasha at least in um sort of our our contemporary society in this country it's very difficult to understand the given circumstances that Natasha is working with in terms of um there are things that we can recognize like her fucking getting this huge libido crush on someone of course but her family's destituteness financially what the marriage to Andre is meant to mean what having an affair means in terms of the of disgrace.

All of that is hard for us to identify today in the United States in 20, that was 2011, 2012 when we were first making it.