00:00 - Before I get to Argyle, I just want to quickly thank you
00:04 for being one of the reasons Michelle Pfeiffer
00:06 came out of her brief acting hiatus in 2007 for Stardust.
00:11 I love that movie and I think any reason
00:13 that gets her out there is better as the world.
00:15 So thank you.
00:17 - Well, thank her for doing it.
00:19 So, you know, I'm grateful for her for jumping aboard.
00:23 - And Stardust was obviously the first time
00:26 you collaborated with Henry Cavill.
00:28 Could you sense his star power back then
00:33 and was he always your first choice for Agent Argyle?
00:36 - Yeah, I gotta say, if someone asked me
00:39 what my superpower in life is,
00:41 I would say it'd be picking young actors
00:43 that are gonna one day blossom into movie stars.
00:47 And I felt that whether it was about Henry Cavill
00:49 or Daniel Craig or Tom Hardy or Jennifer Lawrence,
00:52 like I'll go on and on and on and on.
00:54 And people go, "Well, how do you do it?"
00:56 And I'm like, "Well, just meet them."
00:59 It's obvious, but if you haven't, if you...
01:02 So Henry, I always knew would become what he became.
01:07 And on this movie, I said to Henry, I said,
01:11 "Look, I need someone who could play
01:12 like a James Bond character."
01:14 But imagine he's 50% Sean Connery and 50% Roger Moore.
01:18 That was what I need.
01:20 And I knew he could do it 'cause he's got the strength
01:22 and the suaveness of Connery,
01:23 but he can do the one eye in an eyebrow raise
01:27 in pure Roger Moore style.
01:31 So yeah, he's a lovely guy as well.
01:34 And it's a lot easier making,
01:36 working with people you like
01:37 just makes everything far more positive.
01:41 - Yeah.
01:42 And the promo surrounding this film has,
01:47 it's fed into like the mysterious of Ellie Conway,
01:50 like the novel series, who the real Argyle is,
01:53 like the Taylor Swift theory.
01:56 Like, did you expect people to run away
01:59 with the theories as much as they have?
02:02 - No.
02:03 I knew something was up when my daughter came up to me
02:08 and she's sorry, my nose, I got,
02:11 I've been traveling so much.
02:12 Sorry.
02:13 My daughter came up to me saying,
02:15 "Dad, I wanna meet Taylor Swift."
02:17 I was like, "Yeah, I bet you do."
02:19 She goes, "No, no, no, you didn't tell me.
02:20 She wrote the book."
02:21 And I was like, "She did not write the book."
02:24 And then she, I said, "What are you talking about?"
02:27 And then she showed me the whole, the online noise.
02:30 And it was really convincing enough for me to go,
02:32 "Oh, wait, hold on.
02:33 Is there something I should know?"
02:35 But she didn't write the book.
02:37 And there's just a lot of coincidences or,
02:40 but life is sometimes strong, it's strange.
02:44 I mean, as I said, and it's funny,
02:46 we were talking about it now.
02:47 I think people are asking a lot about Ellie Conway
02:50 and I'm hoping the real Ellie Conway will reveal,
02:53 be revealed very soon because I gotta stop telling people
02:57 it's not Taylor Swift to be someone who's saying,
02:59 "It is, meet Ellie Conway."
03:01 Give you a clue, Australian.
03:04 - Okay.
03:06 All right.
03:07 I mean, in typical fashion with this movie,
03:09 like nothing's as we expect.
03:11 So yes, I certainly wasn't expecting an Australian
03:14 to be mentioned.
03:15 So now that'll give me, I mean,
03:18 now I'll just look for everything possible.
03:19 Is it one of those things where are there hints at all
03:22 that you've dropped anywhere else?
03:24 - No, there wasn't meant to be any.
03:26 It was meant to be keeping it,
03:28 it was meant to be, they didn't want to be known.
03:32 Now, but the Taylor Swift thing
03:33 has put such a burning spotlight on it
03:36 that it's becoming, it feels rude not to just say,
03:41 "Here it is," but I'm not the publisher.
03:42 So this is the publisher.
03:44 If I was the publisher, I'd be saying,
03:46 "It's, boom, now bugger off."
03:49 I can't do that.
03:51 - And on the mention of Ellie,
03:53 like you start here at book number four,
03:56 was there always a reason for that?
03:59 Like, or did that happen quite organically when you were-
04:01 - Well, yeah, no, it had to be because imagine if this was,
04:04 you know, we made this, you know,
04:05 this was J.K. Rowling and a wizard had come up to her
04:08 and said, "Hey, guess what?
04:10 Magic is real."
04:12 And then she's like, "Oh my God."
04:13 And go, "And Voldemort isn't Voldemort,
04:15 but there's a guy like Voldemort and he's going to kill you.
04:16 So come with me and here's my magic flute
04:20 and we're going to fly off on that," whatever, right?
04:22 But for that to happen,
04:25 I've heard of a world-class author,
04:27 you've got to do book three or book four,
04:30 because otherwise you can't be the biggest success
04:32 even and be at a book launch and it already be massive.
04:36 But one would have made, it made no sense.
04:38 So we had to go further into it,
04:40 but there is, the book one is book one,
04:43 and it's all about how a long-haired ponytail young man
04:47 becomes a flat-top super spy.
04:49 - Yeah, I will say that that reveal,
04:53 the post-credit reveal was,
04:55 made me very, very excited for the future of this series
04:59 and whatever other series are out there, what we will say.
05:03 So, no, thank you so much for taking the time out
05:06 and yeah, just for giving us a spy film
05:09 that likes to, you know, never play by the rules,
05:12 I think, so thank you very much.
05:13 - Well, thank you, that's the,
05:15 well, I'd love that you like starred us as well,
05:17 because, you know, the logline for that,
05:19 that probably only Australians and British people
05:22 would understand when we said it's the fairy tale
05:24 that won't behave,
05:25 sounds like you understood it, so thank you.
05:28 - Yeah, thank you very much, cheers.
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