00:00No actor is good all the time and I can't stand watching myself be bad but I love watching myself
00:07in Jimpa. Jimpa and Third Rock from the Sun are my favorite things. I think I'm absolutely hilarious
00:14in Third Rock from the Sun. I guess your last Sundance was remote. It was yeah like I've been
00:24coming for since I've come a few times before and um but yeah the last one which was a great
00:30festival for us but we weren't here so um it's amazing being back I love it so much yeah it's
00:36just so nice being back in the snow seeing everybody the idea that everyone's actually
00:40sitting there watching the films together still feels a bit a bit of a novelty yeah.
00:45We're having a great time I think anyway I'm having a great time I it's just like it's big
00:52and beautiful and hectic but amazing yeah we're just all having such a good time yeah yeah but
00:59you've been watching Sundance from afar for so long yeah I've watched my parents come to Sundance
01:05so many times and it's pretty spectacular to be here and to be able to be in the snow in Park City
01:11and going to screenings and I'm in the film what it's so special it's a thing of myth and legend
01:19for me. How did you find watching yourself on screen? Well I've watched it five times now
01:26I'm comfortable for the first two and then okay on the third watch terrible on the fourth watch
01:33and then I loved on the fifth so good overall. I've got friends who won't watch themselves
01:39and I don't mind um no I think like all humans I go oh I wish I hadn't done that with my chin
01:45but um also I don't think there's room for from an actor point of view you're not meant to have
01:52vanity but you know we're on screen we just can't help watch yourself and go oh yeah. Did it feel
01:58because like for those of us who who watch you this felt like a different version of you obviously
02:03um did it feel like you watching yourself in Jimba did you recognize like the the different
02:10side of yourself that he was showing? Well I've grown older than I realized very interesting
02:16because I've recently done a play in London and a good friend of my oldest friend came to see it and
02:22said you know you do something now and then where you suddenly look so old and I realized well good
02:32friend he's a really good friend no he he thought it was how do you do that it was a kind of magical
02:38acting and I think that I mean I'm 79 years old and I I think I've I've retained my youth mainly
02:45by acting uh and but it was very interesting to see Jimba because I saw a very different version
02:52of myself and a lot of it had to do with in the course of the film you see him gradually decline
02:59uh and I I sort of loved tracking that um just purely like like an audience member not watching
03:07myself act I began to see Jim and not me and I just found it just terribly moving it sounds
03:16egotistical to say that I'm just talking about the way I responded to it as a film so much of
03:22it had to do with acting with with Collie and with odd and all these marvelous the wonderful
03:31aunties in the film uh it's just and this is a great tribute to Sophie you just saw all these
03:39relationships come to life in such an emotionally authentic way is that a nickname Collie yes yeah
03:47yeah sorry in case you're going I didn't know there was a Collie are we supposed to keep that
03:51secret oh it's too late now John said it all day oh and uh where were we yesterday morning at 6 30
04:00a.m not in time when they announced fast asleep fast asleep I I barely have a dog in that race I
04:09I love everybody involved in Conclave I I literally had forgotten it was Oscar morning
04:15yeah when I turned my phone on um my friends in England were going Cynthia
04:20and I was texting Cynthia going
04:24sorry is the nickname Jimpa something that that did you is that fictional or is that
04:30no that was what um my dad decided he wanted to be called by Ord Jimpa like grandpa yeah yeah
04:38he didn't want to be he didn't want to sound too old so he thought he he didn't want to be
04:42grandpa he wanted to be Jimpa um and that's what we called forever and you called him it even though
04:47he wasn't your grandpa I always called him Jimpa from that point on yeah yeah did anyone else call
04:53their grandparents something not very much my brother who's older than me they said we need
04:59to differentiate differentiate between the grandparents so what do you think and you went
05:04old nana young nana nope nope nope that won't no and so they suggested um one nana had a dog
05:12called sooty and so they went sooty nana and old nana uh nanny oh yeah a bit like old nana yeah
05:24three of my four grandparents were gone by the time I was cognizant I had my one grammy
05:32at shoot a lot she uh sadly I've been nominated four times but I've never won a grammy
05:37but I had a grammy grandma what's like one suggestion for how how what Hollywood used
05:42to be doing more of or less of like what's comes to mind as oh that's a big question
05:49it's such a hard moment to answer that isn't it because the we just watched the fires and that
05:54was so impactful on the whole film community that I'm a bit like oh I don't really want to say
05:59anything they should be doing yeah I mean making stories like telling independent stories uh telling
06:04stories about humans uh the things that Hollywood has always done really well you know it'd be
06:10really nice to think that that's still possible and continues to be possible I I'm in this
06:18marvelous film conclave uh and every one thing that people are constantly saying about is it's
06:24like the way movies used to be uh and I I think it's like the way I responded to man for all
06:34seasons when I was like 16 years old it's true I would love to think that that kind of storytelling
06:41comes back just great writing that's turns turns into great movies
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