{"id":4474,"date":"2009-01-16T20:03:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T20:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=4474"},"modified":"2009-01-16T20:03:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T20:03:01","slug":"interview-gabriele-muccino-on-seven-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/01\/16\/interview-gabriele-muccino-on-seven-pounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Gabriele Muccino on Seven Pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0610831\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4475\" title=\"Gabriele Muccino directing Seven Pounds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/gabriele-muccino-directing-seven-pounds.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriele Muccino directing Seven Pounds\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0610831\/\">Gabriele Muccino<\/a><\/strong> is the director of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0814314\/\">Seven Pounds<\/a><\/strong>, a new film starring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Will_Smith\">Will Smith<\/a> as a man trying to change the lives of seven people.<\/p>\n<p>As a director Gabriele initially found success in his native Italy with films such as\u00a0<a title=\"L'ultimo bacio\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L%27ultimo_bacio\">One Last Kiss<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Remember Me, My Love\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Remember_Me,_My_Love\">Remember Me, My Love<\/a>, before making his breakthrough in \u00a0Hollywood with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pursuit_of_Happyness\">The Pursuit of Happyness<\/a>\u00a0in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke with him in London recently about his latest film and how he first hooked up with Will Smith.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to it here:\u00a0<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Gabriele_Muccino_on_Seven_Pounds.mp3]\n<p>You can download this\u00a0interview\u00a0as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Seven Pounds\u00a0<\/strong>is out at UK cinemas from today<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Gabriele_Muccino_on_Seven_Pounds.mp3\">Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0610831\/\">Gabriele Muccino<\/a>\u00a0at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.co.uk\/movies\/sevenpounds\/\">Official UK site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Image: Merrick Morton SMPSP \u00a0\u00a9 2008 Columbia Pictures and Beverly Blvd LLC \/ All Rights Reserved]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriele Muccino is the director of Seven Pounds, a new film starring Will Smith as a man trying to change the lives of seven people. As a director Gabriele initially found success in his native Italy with films such as\u00a0One Last Kiss\u00a0and\u00a0Remember Me, My Love, before making his breakthrough in \u00a0Hollywood with The Pursuit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[756,138,2796,753],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}