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Pharrell Williams talks about the upcoming film 'Piece by Piece' at the Variety Studio at TIFF. He breaks down why he wanted to tell his story through Legos and how he made the off-beat idea come to life.

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00:00Can you talk about the process of bringing in all of the people who are in the movie,
00:04Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z, et cetera, et cetera, and who had maybe the funniest reaction to
00:10saying you're going to play a Lego?
00:12Well, we purposely did not tell anyone that that was going to be the finishing, that that
00:21would be the finished product.
00:23We wanted people to just answer the questions and really give their full, unedited reactions
00:34to the opportunity to do the interviews.
00:40Because if we would have said, okay, this is going to be in Lego, then they would have
00:44sort of curved what they were saying to try and ... I don't know.
00:53I'm not saying that they would be trying to contribute to the direction, but I think
00:58we didn't want them to be influenced by what we wanted.
01:02We wanted the purest part, and that's, I feel like, part of the magic of what makes this
01:06film pop the way it does, is because it's so vivid and it's not scripted.
01:13It would have started to have felt like, oh, we're making this for kids, and it's like,
01:16no, we're not.
01:17We're making this for human beings.
01:22While I am a black man that comes from a marginalized community, we wanted this story to feel universal,
01:28and that was the reason why we told it through the guise of Lego.
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