When I come onto the show, I read the scripts for all the episodes leading up to my episode. I try not to read past what I’m cutting. I don’t wanna know where these characters are going. I wanna stay grounded in what they’re doing in that moment. I’ll see the episodes once they’re cut and ready to be viewed. Once I get started, I’ll know which aspects I like while making the episode I’m working on stand on its own two feet.
The ACE Eddie Awards, a celebration of the craft of film editing, was held this past weekend on March 14, 2025. Myron Kerstein, ACE, Juliette Welfling, and Mary Blee are among some of the winners for their work in this year’s top acclaimed movies: Wicked, Emilia Pérez, and The Wild Robot, respectively. Friday was also a night of remembrance for the tragedy of the Altadena and Palisades fires, with nods to the heroes who helped fight them.
My favorite scene is when Lawrence goes to confront Cardinal Adeyemi about his past and tells him he’s not going to be Pope. In the script, they pray together and then we see Adeyemi making a vote knowing that he’s finished, but we decided to fold them into one another so that the scene ends with Adeyemi asking Lawrence to pray. I just remember looking at this frame of Lawrence saying yes from another room, and I thought that looked like somebody’s point of view.
Kelsey Grammer comes from the golden age of sitcoms. He wants to stick to making sure the audience is enjoying the process. It is a live play. Let’s get it as best we can all week with rehearsals, and then we put it on in front of an audience and get to see the energy.
I just sit there in awe, I just receive it. I don’t even go on set, I’m in the studio, but I don’t like to tread on set and kind of spoil my vision of what they’re giving me. I can respond to only what I’m receiving and I think I’m the first audience member for the film.
“I think that it was fascinating because we approached it like a narrative movie. We’re telling a story and Albert’s the main character. He set me off to find every archival piece of footage I could find.”
“He was an artist. He would draw and he would draw characters. He would draw little monsters and characters. But puppetry allowed him to take all these different crafts, filmmaking, writing comedy art, and combine them and do something innovative in one new medium, one medium, which was puppetry.”
The primary editor of How I Met Your Father, Russell Griffin, took Immersive Media behind the scenes of the acclaimed sitcom, as well as his membership in ACE.
“It was a real pleasure to be able to do The Queen justice, because the show is ultimately about her.”
“I hope people watch this and not only want to rewind it much again, because it was fun, but also that they have a story that maybe they connect with on a personal level.”
