00:00Also, how interesting is it that I get to talk about you, and I'm just going to pretend
00:12you're not here.
00:13That's what I'm going to do.
00:14I'm going to do.
00:15So it's so weird.
00:16I just want to say all this to you because I mean it.
00:20Jude and I are at that age where we're basically the same age, but once upon a time, I was
00:27a very young man getting his driver's license, and the very first movie, once I had my driver's
00:32license and was legally able to drive, the very first movie I ever drove myself to see
00:37was a movie called Wild, starring Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde, and this very striking
00:43actor who I'd never seen before.
00:46A few months later, there he was again in this incredible science fiction film called
00:50Gattaca, and then a month after that, in Midnight in the Garden of Good...
00:55I make really hard titles in my movies.
00:57That's a hard one.
00:58That's a tongue twister.
00:59Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil People.
01:01And I thought to myself, someday, somehow, I'm going to work with this actor in not one,
01:08but two projects in which he will play a pirate who gets up to shenanigans with a bunch of
01:12runaway children, whether it's in Neverland or in a galaxy far, far away.
01:16But okay, so I wasn't actually thinking that far ahead, but when the time came to collaborate
01:22with Jude, I looked back at my own history of watching him on the big screen and realized
01:28how wonderful and rare it is to see an actor and an artist chart their own path before
01:34our eyes.
01:35I've often been asked what's it like to work with Jude Law, and the answer is right there
01:39in his body of work.
01:41You can look at the films he's made and see the curiosity and conviction and care that
01:45he brings to each part writ large across his career as a whole, whether it's Existins,
01:51The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, Sky Captain, The Holiday, Grand Budapest Hotel,
01:56or The Nest.
01:57And if anyone has not seen The Nest, we should just pause the ceremony right now, everyone
02:03go home and watch it, and I'll wait, we'll wait here.
02:06The Nest is incredible, so yes, go see it.
02:10But the fact that Jude learned to sword fight with his left hand when he played Captain
02:16Hook for me is indicative of how up for a challenge he is.
02:19He never does the same thing twice.
02:21He never goes for the easy choice or the safe bets.
02:24He approaches his work with humility and kindness, and he commits to a degree that would be daunting
02:30if it weren't so inspiring.
02:32And on top of all of that...
02:33Scientology is a cause!
02:34Scientology is a cause!
02:35Yes.
02:36That was the next thing.
02:37That was the next thing I was going to say.
02:38How did he get a copy of my speech?
03:07I don't have anything, I'm done.
03:13The fact that Jude learned to sword fight with his left hand when he played Captain
03:17Hook for me is indicative of how up for a challenge he is.
03:20He commits to a degree that would be daunting if it weren't so inspiring, and he keeps getting
03:24better and better and better.
03:27Early on I told Jude that I generally like to do seven takes, which in any normal circumstance
03:32is plenty.
03:34With Jude it was very hard to stop because I knew that if I would just do one more, he
03:39would just find some new bit of nuance, illuminate some new layer that I could never have dreamed
03:44of, and I was just always so entertained.
03:48I learned more about my own projects, my own movies, watching Jude perform these words
03:54that we had written on the page.
03:55So Jude, I apologize for all those times we went past take seven, but you brought this
03:59on yourself.
04:02We had so much fun.
04:03It was nothing but fun.
04:04I have so many stories I could tell from set, but one of the things that's resonated with
04:08me the most is Jude's generosity.
04:13As I mentioned, we've done two projects that involve large casts of children, and sometimes
04:18in between takes I'd be changing a lens or moving the camera, and I'd see him with the
04:22kids playing games, rehearsing the scene, and gently helping them find their way.
04:28Witnessing those moments was a gift to them, certainly, for they were all better actors
04:32and will be better people for it, but it's to me, too, because it was a reminder of how
04:37if we're lucky enough to spend our lives making movies, then the measure of a life well-lived
04:42is the people we make those movies with.
04:44And if I got to work with Jude on every movie I make, that would be a life well-lived indeed,
04:48but since I can't, I'm grateful that he likes to work as much as he does, because if I'm
04:53not working with him, I can rest easy knowing that I'll get to keep watching him.
04:58So thank you.
04:59Congratulations.
05:02Thank you so much.
05:03Of course.
05:04And now I will leave you.
05:05Oh, just stand?
05:06Yeah.
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