00:00I think there's such a form of escapism to films, and especially this kind of a movie,
00:07which I think people will be hopefully really drawn to.
00:10I loved being able to step into Anna's skin and into this world of literature and poetry and love and dreams.
00:19It was beautiful to live in it.
00:21And yeah, I think it's also something we've always been drawn to in film,
00:25like Roman Holiday, What a Girl Wants.
00:28There's something so beautiful about that kind of story,
00:32because I think it's when you leave what you know and go into the unknown,
00:38you see yourself in such a different way, and you learn so much about yourself,
00:41and you grow in such a profound way.
00:44It's a beautiful thing to get to experience both on film and then to actually live it as well.
00:50We don't have this back home, this history.
00:52I just love being among those dusty old first editions.
00:56If you have time, then there's something I'd like to show you.
00:58I think it's quite special.
01:00Oh, the inner sanctum.
01:03I wanted to know more than what I said, because otherwise I would have felt like a fraud.
01:07Yes.
01:08But I, and actually I only remember because I was talking about this yesterday,
01:14but there is a poem by Tennyson who is featured quite heavily in our film,
01:18but the poem isn't featured in the film, but it's Ulysses,
01:23which often people think of James Joyce,
01:26but there is a poem called Ulysses by Tennyson,
01:28and it is just so remarkably beautiful.
01:36I just implore anyone to read it.
01:38It just, it's so, it's so moving.
01:41And I actually spoke to Ian, our director, and tried to get it into the film,
01:46and I like made a cut of it to try and like get it,
01:49get the most, most fitting bits in.
01:53Didn't work.
01:55But I, yeah, I just implore anyone to, yeah, it's so beautiful.
01:57I also did a lot of studying as well, because, you know,
02:00that's Anna's entire existence.
02:03So as much as I also discovered the poets that we quoted,
02:06I tried to learn as much as I could of other poets,
02:09or quotes that weren't, poets that weren't featured.
02:11One of them that I didn't know Emily Dickinson wrote
02:14was Forever's Composed of Nows,
02:16and that really stuck with me as Anna,
02:20because I think you could understand that so differently,
02:23like Anna or like Jamie,
02:25and her understanding of that towards the end of the movie
02:28is so powerful.
02:29It's really understanding that life is so short,
02:31that now is the only thing that's promised to us.
02:34So how are we going to live that now?
02:37What are we going to do with that now that we are given?
02:42And Anna's decision is to step into the shoes
02:46she always wanted to step into
02:47and to do the thing that she loved
02:50more than anything in the world,
02:51which is to teach.
02:53And she learns that through loving and losing Jamie.
02:56So that was one that was kind of always
02:58I'd go back to every morning.
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