00:00 [upbeat music]
00:02 - I'll leave you to it.
00:08 - It was such a gift.
00:09 Listen, Rafe is such a talented actor
00:12 that whatever he wants to transmit on screen,
00:15 he will do that.
00:16 And so of course he is formidable and intimidating
00:19 and all of these other words,
00:21 but being in a scene with him,
00:23 I don't know whether it was our characters
00:26 or the way that we both approach acting,
00:29 I felt so comfortable.
00:30 It was such a warm intimacy between the two of us
00:33 and we really took care of each other.
00:35 And I think genuinely relished any time
00:38 we got to have those back and forth scenes.
00:41 It felt very, almost like a relief
00:44 because the way that Mark wanted to shoot was 360.
00:48 We were all mic'd all the time.
00:49 We were always improvising and it was incredible,
00:52 but it was also quite energetic.
00:55 And I feel like any time it was Rafe and I alone,
00:59 everything kind of calmed down a little bit
01:01 and we got to just be with each other
01:04 in that more intimate space.
01:06 - Tone is a very tricky thing to talk about
01:11 and try to explain.
01:12 Whenever I read a script,
01:16 I'm always trying to picture it in my mind
01:18 of how it would look.
01:19 And I had no idea with this one,
01:22 when I read it, how it would turn out.
01:24 But there was something really exciting about that,
01:26 not knowing.
01:28 The thing that I did know was that
01:30 we were in very good hands with Mark Milod
01:32 because I think a lot of people know "Succession"
01:35 and how wonderful, what a wonderful job they do
01:39 on that show of turning very unlikable characters
01:43 into people who you do somehow wind up caring about
01:47 in some way.
01:49 And I knew that Mark was gonna be able to take this
01:53 really rogues gallery of despicable characters
01:56 and make us care about what happens to them.
02:00 And Rafe Fiennes, I think, was just, you know,
02:05 he's a living legend.
02:08 He's one of our greatest actors
02:09 and I could immediately picture him saying the lines
02:14 as I was reading the script.
02:15 But it was one thing to imagine it
02:17 and another thing to actually be there and witness
02:20 that he is just a force and a powerhouse
02:25 and has such a way with language.
02:28 And we all felt like we were sitting in on a masterclass
02:31 because we got to sit back and watch Rafe
02:34 do these really great monologues to us, his audience.
02:38 (sniffles)
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