Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Shailene Woodley Says Her Motor City Director Potsy Ponciroli Has a Very Unique Superpower

Shailene Woodley says the director of her new movie Motor City...has a pretty unique superpower...and the full story is on the way.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood. Normally, when you hear an actor wax
poetic about a particular filmmaker, you hear terms like visionary
and genius thrown around. But Motor City star Shaneen Woodley
used a more unexpected term when asked to explain what
makes its director Potzy Poncoli so good at his job

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good person, she tells Deadline. He is such a solid
human being, and that goes so far when you're in
a creative place, because it breeds comfort and familiarity and
trust and safety and protection. His other biggest superpower is
knowing exactly what he wants and being open to how
he gets there. He doesn't break intuition, but he creates

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an environment where intuition can fly and breathe, and he
knows where it can be guided too. That's Jyalene Woodley
on her Motor City director Potzy Poncoli, And while you
might not be familiar with Pozzi's name yet, he's currently
tapped to write the highly anticipated Goonies two and potentially

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direct it. Their upcoming crime thriller, MotorCity, is expected to
hit theaters soon. That's direct from Hollywood.