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Asian A.V. Club: Hang with Lurker director Alex Russell

Welcome back to the Asian A.V. Club interview series 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 he would be the one to go behind the camera to direct his script. But now the film is one of the year’s best-reviewed films and easily one of our 2025 favorites! So press play and spend some time with us as we ask Alex about his career, what he learned from writing for top showrunners, knowing real-life 'Matty's' in Hollywood, and that special moment of getting Auntie approval after a New York Times feature. If you like this interview with Alex, check out some of the other interviews we've done recently posted here on our Asian A.V. Club youtube channel. Asian A.V. Club is a website that profiles the wonderfully vast spectrum of creatives working both behind and in front of the camera. If you want to read more, please go to our website (link below) and SUBSCRIBE here so you'll get our fresh posts in your inbox when we publish! Chapters of this interview: 0:04 What started Alex Russell creative writing as a child 1:35 How did he build a career as a writer 2:48 The lessons Russell learned in a writers room 4:59 Moving from writing to directing 6:09 The lure of fame and how he developed that into Lurker 7:29 How the character of pop star Oliver (Archie Madekwe) draws people into his world 9:03 The 'Matthews' that exist in the world 10:40 Music wasn't the focus of Lurker until prod. Kenny Beats got involved 11:54 "Firsts" that Russell has experienced making Lurker 13:08 Does Alex's parents know what he does 14:32 Alex loves us! Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... SUBSTACK: https://asianavclub.substack.com/ #Interview #Film #TV #AAPI #AsianAVClub #AAVC #AlexRussell #Lurker #LurkerMovie #director #Mubi #Screenwriter