00:00 The main thing was Colin Farrell.
00:02 I had a chat before I joined the project.
00:04 I had a call with him.
00:07 Should be like 20 minutes.
00:08 And we spoke for an hour and a half.
00:10 And his process of working and how he develops characters
00:14 was so fascinating.
00:15 And it really did well.
00:17 It had a match.
00:18 So I said, I want to work with this guy.
00:20 And then I jumped in.
00:21 And then I had to learn about film noir to make the series.
00:25 Because of course, I had watched some films.
00:28 But I wasn't that good in film noir.
00:32 So I watched a lot of films to understand where
00:36 I was getting myself into.
00:39 First had Colin.
00:40 And then they invited me.
00:43 But in the beginning, he didn't know exactly
00:46 how he would present Sugar.
00:50 And I didn't know as well.
00:51 So we talked.
00:53 And in the first days we were shooting,
00:54 we were experimenting.
00:57 The guy was more distanced.
00:58 He had a heart.
01:00 He was passionate or not.
01:03 So little by little, shooting, we found the character.
01:08 And he's a great actor.
01:10 Because he likes to experiment.
01:12 Sometimes he does a scene.
01:13 And then he has to do it again.
01:15 And do it in a totally different way.
01:17 And then says, let me try a third way.
01:19 And this is the third very, very different way.
01:22 And that's how I say, well, that way seems right.
01:26 And we touch, not touching, feeling.
01:29 Little by little, we found Sugar.
01:32 Grew up watching films in Los Angeles.
01:34 See those palm trees in Beverly Hills and all that.
01:38 Or downtown, the beauties in downtown.
01:42 So it was a big pleasure.
01:43 I mean, I don't believe I'm here shooting the scenes
01:45 that I watched when I was a kid.
01:47 And so there was this interesting part.
01:51 At the same time, when I was shooting,
01:54 I stayed in an apartment in downtown Los Angeles.
01:57 Because we were supposed to have our studio next to downtown.
02:02 So I wanted to be close so I didn't
02:03 have to drive every day to work.
02:07 But then they moved to Paramount.
02:09 But I was already in downtown.
02:11 In downtown, there's a lot of homeless people
02:17 that lives there, like 70,000 homeless
02:22 in downtown Los Angeles.
02:24 And I would see these people every day going to the supermarket
02:28 and walking around.
02:29 So I tried to--
02:30 I used the iconic Los Angeles, but I tried
02:33 to include them in the series.
02:35 So sometimes you see those stands in the streets.
02:39 And it's an experience I had in Los Angeles.
02:42 Nobody really-- yeah, nobody really
02:45 would believe that Los Angeles is the Los Angeles
02:49 I saw in downtown.
02:50 It was really to understand the film noir,
02:54 because that's the reference.
02:55 We should make a series which should be contemporary,
03:00 but should remind people of those films.
03:03 And so I did my homework.
03:06 I watched like 20 films.
03:08 Every day I would watch a film to learn the grammar,
03:13 how they tell stories, how they act, the whole thing.
03:17 Some lines from the films were--
03:20 we've taken some lines from the scripts of the films,
03:24 and we brought to the series some scenes.
03:27 We even-- both scenes, we copied.
03:29 We just repeated the scenes and shoo it.
03:32 And this was a very, very interesting job to do,
03:36 having to learn a specific grammar, a specific way
03:39 to shoot, and then replicate, but not in the same way,
03:42 using as reference, but trying to make it contemporary.
03:45 That was a great, great experience.
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