Asian A.V. Club podcast: Hang with Alex Russell

Welcome back to the Asian A.V. Club interview podcast HANG. This week we’re with first-time director Alex Russell, whose debut feature Lurker premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and was quickly picked up by the boutique indie studio Mubi. Starring Theodore Pellerin as Matty, a seemingly impressionable store clerk drawn into the world of pop star Oliver, played by Archie Madekwe. Not only does Lurker dive into the intoxicating world of fame, but we see the dark lengths that someone will go to stay inside it.

Russell started in the writers’ room on the cult tv series Dave and then went on to write and produce for Emmy-winning hits like Beef and The Bear. During lockdown, he penned Lurker as an exercise, never thinking  ...