# #525 Nadia Hallgren, the director behind Becoming | Michelle Obama, Victoria Beckham, Netflix: inside an extraordinary career

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Podcast: [TheBoldWay](https://stenobird.com/podcast/theboldway-329028)
Published: 2026-05-08T03:00:00+00:00
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🎙️ Sponsors du mois🌐 Squarespace — la plateforme no-code, boostée par l’IA, pour créer et développer votre site web tout-en-un.🛡️ MAIF — Épisode Assurance & indépendants : les erreurs qui peuvent vous coûter cher | En partenariat avec la MAIF. — Thanks to Nadia for stopping by TheBoldWay! Nadia Hallgren is the director of Becoming, the Netflix documentary on Michelle Obama, one of the top five most-watched nonfiction films of all time. Born in the Bronx to an on-and-off postman father and a domestic worker mother, without ever attending film school, she earned her stripes over 15 years behind the camera: production assistant on Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, then cinematographer at the post–civil war tribunals in Sierra Leone, inside the busiest maternity ward in the world in the Philippines, and alongside attorney Ben Crump in the homes of American families bereaved by police violence. Today a Netflix-signed director on Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE and the Victoria Beckham series, she comes to tell us how she landed the role of a lifetime opposite Michelle Obama, what she learned with a front-row seat to the best and worst of humanity, and why, in her view, real success is only ever built on the long game. Timeline 04:00: From the Bronx to filmmaking | Modest childhood, library kid, photography as the first spark 12:00: 15 years as a cinematographer | Sierra Leone, the Philippines, North Korea — a front-row seat to humanity 19:00: The phone call that changed everything | Why her low-budget skill set, not film school, won her Michelle Obama 28:00: Meeting Michelle | "Be yourself," the hug, the conversation about their mothers 33:00: Building Becoming | The Chopped method — make the best meal with the basket you're given 45:00: The Netflix model | Flat fee, no back-e…

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