BlogLive@Sundance 2008 Podcast: Choke Director Clark Gregg

Jan 19, 2008 12:00 PM

Sundance 2008: Choke director Clark Gregg

Clark Gregg attended the Sundance Film Festival in 1999 as an actor, playing a transsexual. “I’d been there as an actor a couple of times,” Gregg recalls. “Once with a movie called The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, the first feature by Tod Williams, who did Door in the Floor, and I found it tremendously moving. Watching the way his voice was supported there, and the way they helped him find a niche as a filmmaker. I said then—and I think it was eight or nine years ago—that somehow or another I want to have a story that I can bring back and share. So, it was quite moving to me to find that result at the end of all this.”

You might also know Gregg on television as the ex-husband, Richard Campbell, in The New Adventures of Old Christine. In addition to a long list of television and film roles, Gregg also wrote the screenplay for the Robert Zemeckis film What Lies Beneath. He has now adapted the novel Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, and has directed it for the big screen. Choke is in the Dramatic Competition at Sundance this year. To listen to millimeter Contributing Writer Darroch Greer's conversation with Gregg, click here