00:00 We'll see what happens, but I think, I don't know.
00:05 I think Morbius, Spider-Man,
00:08 that's a meeting that has to happen.
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00:15 I do love horror.
00:25 I love elevated horror, elevated genre in general.
00:29 And I think that's what makes this different.
00:31 It's a big Marvel movie, but also has elements of horror.
00:35 It's a little darker and scary,
00:36 and that kind of makes it stand out in the crowd, I think.
00:40 Yeah, you know, I think what's really interesting
00:42 about the genre is that as a form,
00:45 it allows you to be quite, almost like Shakespeare does,
00:49 you can be quite big, you can make quite bold choices
00:52 because the universe is in itself quite big.
00:55 So you can be quite bold with the brush strokes
01:00 that you throw at the canvas, as it were,
01:01 for the less boring analogy.
01:03 And, you know, there's, I think there's a lot
01:09 of interesting parts being written
01:11 by a lot of great writers and a lot of great directors
01:13 are gravitating towards that sort of universe.
01:16 I love playing Michael Morbius.
01:19 I love the fact that I got to interpret this character
01:22 for the first time.
01:23 I don't look down on this movie.
01:25 I don't look down on the character.
01:26 I don't apologize for it.
01:28 I put it up alongside anything else
01:30 I've ever done in my life.
01:31 And I think audiences deserve from me my very best,
01:36 and I did my very best in this film, as best as I could.
01:40 I worked as hard as I could to bring this character to life.
01:43 It's very, it has a transformation that was very challenging
01:47 and for me, creatively exciting.
01:48 But no, I mean, I think that, you know, the best of Marvel,
01:53 the best of DC stand alongside the best of any other film.
01:56 I think it's ridiculous to suggest otherwise.
01:59 - I am Venom.
02:01 [gunshot]
02:02 I don't lose kids.
02:03 What's up, Doc?
02:04 - In almost all Spider-Verses or, you know,
02:07 the verses that existed in the Marvel universe,
02:11 if you read the comic books,
02:12 the whole idea of those kind of,
02:14 of that kind of, the Marvel string theory,
02:17 if you would call it, it's very related to, you know,
02:20 if you remember the alternative Seinfelds, you know,
02:25 it's that you have like a world
02:27 where you have the same characters
02:29 and it's all of the characters,
02:31 but they are slightly different, you know?
02:34 So in almost all the verses, you have Spider-Man,
02:38 but they will be different, you know, in tone.
02:42 That's not quite the way that the kind of
02:44 Marvel cinematic universe are approaching the idea.
02:49 Then you have the second kind of legend,
02:50 which is about the totem,
02:52 is that in all universes that there is a spider totem.
02:56 So, which means that in all universes,
02:58 there have to be a Spider-Man.
02:59 - We'll see what happens, but, you know, I think,
03:03 I don't know.
03:05 I think Morbius, Spider-Man,
03:08 that's a meeting that has to happen.
03:10 - You know, once you make a movie like this,
03:12 once you make a Marvel movie,
03:13 I think the second you finish the movie,
03:16 it's no longer yours.
03:17 It almost never feels yours.
03:19 You have a responsibility to sort of
03:22 make this movie for the fans.
03:25 And I think that's what we did.
03:26 So I felt it.
03:28 I was feeling the pain.
03:30 I was like, I just want them to see it.
03:32 I want them to enjoy it.
03:33 And I want them to be introduced to Michael Morbius
03:37 or reintroduced to Michael Morbius
03:39 and to meet Martin and to meet Milo.
03:42 And, you know, I'm very proud of the film that Daniel made.
03:46 - I have increased strength and speed
03:48 in some form of bat radar.
03:51 What else can I do?
03:53 - If you think of his power,
03:56 one of his powers are echolocation.
03:57 And the first time we saw it,
03:59 Noah was in, you know, Ben Affleck's "Daredevil," you know.
04:04 And there, what we always have done
04:06 is that the people that have echolocation have been blind.
04:09 So it's always been like this representation of a dark room
04:12 and then you have some kind of wave that goes through it
04:15 and you can see things in the dark room.
04:17 But what happens if you see,
04:18 if you are a seeing human being?
04:20 'Cause then you have to kind of adapt that kind of next,
04:23 you know, your third eye, if you would call it,
04:25 upon the visions of how you really perceive the world.
04:30 So then I thought "Psychedelia," man,
04:33 or, you know, that kind of vibe.
04:36 So then I thought, okay, it has to become "Psychedelia."
04:40 And then I started, you know, I'm a big comic book lover.
04:42 So I always loved how they drew powers, you know?
04:47 So then, you know, I was watching "Pokemon"
04:49 and I was like, I like that.
04:51 I like those waves.
04:52 I like those colors, you know?
04:54 I like that kind of expression.
04:55 And then we put that together
04:57 and started working out this idea
05:01 of the psychedelic version of the third eye.
05:05 - Just accept who you are.
05:07 - The bad guy.
05:10 You know, I love that kind of,
05:12 that ambiguous place between good and evil
05:16 that we dance in.
05:18 And I think that's exciting.
05:20 There's some complexity there
05:21 and I'd like to continue down that path for sure.
05:23 - Well, I think whoever you play with,
05:25 you sort of, on some level, you agree with them
05:29 because you're investing in their train of thought a bit.
05:32 Do you know what I mean?
05:33 And you can't really judge them too much, I find, you know,
05:37 because you've got to be on their side, bad or good.
05:40 Particularly if they are bad,
05:42 you've got to convince everyone that they're truthfully bad.
05:45 But I suppose, you know, the interesting thing about it is,
05:47 is can you find something in there that people latch onto,
05:50 whether they disagree with him or not and still like?
05:53 - You know, I hear people talk about Marvel DC,
05:56 but I think, look, there are great actors,
05:58 great directors, great writers, great artists,
06:01 great, you know, creative people on either side.
06:06 And, you know, a lot to enjoy with either side.
06:10 You know, a rivalry is not such a bad thing.
06:13 A little competition goes a long way
06:14 and it really helps, it pushes people to work harder,
06:18 to dig deeper.
06:19 And so I think that audiences probably benefit from that.
06:23 And I love Zack, I love the Snyder-verse
06:27 and, you know, I hope they keep on putting material,
06:30 putting work out.
06:31 - Jared is obviously, you know,
06:33 he's had 20-odd years at a really high level
06:36 and thrown out some great performances in many, many films.
06:40 So it was fantastic.
06:42 Yeah, yeah, he, you know,
06:44 he's obviously got a very invested process
06:46 and it was really interesting to sort of be part of that.
06:50 Yeah, it was a pleasure to see him work.
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