00:00One of the biggest stories in music, but especially Venom
00:07Is that, er, don't ask any more questions?
00:12I got a tunnel!
00:14What, what's going on?
00:15I need a weapon, man! All you got is goddamn nunchucks!
00:18You know where to get a gun?
00:21Hi, I'm Alex from Venom Me, and today we're joined by two of our greatest living actors.
00:25It's Benicio Del Toro and Leonardo DiCaprio.
00:28You've both had many scene partners over the years, but Del Toro DiCaprio is brand new.
00:33What was one thing that you learned about each other from working on this film?
00:37I learned about Leo is, er, I've been friends, we've been friends for a long time.
00:44We've met in the hallways, and, er, many times.
00:47But, er, I think it's a sense of humour, aside from his talent and everything else that makes him who he is.
00:55But, er, I think, er, what I was surprised was his sense of humour before, you know, through the whole process of doing this film, I was laughing from beginning to end.
01:07Acting, or was he, like, just telling loads of knock-knock jokes?
01:10Just both, both, both, both, yeah.
01:13I think we all want to hear one of those, but I won't hear you, you won't know.
01:16What about you, Leo? What did you learn about Benicio?
01:18I've been, I, we started out around the same time, I think we were on the cover of Vanity Fair together way back in the day, and I've been just a huge admirer of his career, his, his, his choices.
01:30I, I, and to me it was no surprise to see him come onto set.
01:35He was in the middle of doing another movie, he, we waited around for him for a few months, because we knew we had to have Benicio in this character.
01:42But, I just loved his choices, the choices that he made for the character.
01:46I mean, he came in, you know, he defined who this character was, and he really changed the course of the entire narrative structure of the movie.
01:55It was no surprise to me that he, he would do that though, to be honest.
02:00And I've got to ask, partly because we're the enemy, but also it's just mind blowing, but Johnny Greenwood's score.
02:05Yeah.
02:06Wow.
02:07Yeah, it was incredible.
02:09And we got to, I got to see Dailies too, with a lot of those songs already done.
02:14So, Paul would show us some of these driving sequences, some of the huge helicopter stuff, with that score.
02:20And boy, that score really is like another character in this movie.
02:24It adds to the tension, you're kind of, the whole second half of the movie, you're on the edge of your seat.
02:29And that's in a large part to, to Johnny's score, which he did an incredible job.
02:33Well, there's the particular scene, which is behind you right now, with the cars going over the hills.
02:37Yeah, that sequence.
02:38Which is like, I've never seen anything like that.
02:39Yeah.
02:40But the music in that bit, it just makes it so tense.
02:42Yeah.
02:43Oh yeah, it is, it's almost so obvious.
02:45It's like a drum solo, it's just, it's just so good.
02:51It's almost like, wait, have I seen this before?
02:53No, it's very original and very, very, very good, very good.
02:57I know because you've both been on projects that have involved Radiohead slash Johnny before.
03:02I know Leo from Romeo and Juliet, the Radiohead song was written for that film.
03:07Yeah.
03:08And Inherent Vice, Johnny did the score for that as well.
03:10Yes, he did.
03:11Yes, he did.
03:12And I got a chance to meet him.
03:13Yeah.
03:14Great.
03:15What did you chat about?
03:16Are you big Radiohead fans?
03:17Yes, big time.
03:18Who's, how could you not be a Radiohead fan?
03:20Yeah.
03:21K-Day for me.
03:22What they've contributed to music, man, is incredible.
03:25They've just announced their first shows in seven years.
03:27I know.
03:28Are you going to try and go?
03:29Yeah.
03:30People are going to be flying all over the world for those, huh?
03:33Right.
03:34How are we?
03:35I'm going to keep around you because the winner don't quit on themselves.
03:44Whoa, who's this?
03:45Oh, they're just my friends.
03:47Now, is that a he or a she or a they?
03:49It's not that hard.
03:50They, them.
03:51Okay, I just want to be polite.
03:52So I'm glad we're onto music because one of the biggest stories in music this year,
03:56but also particularly for us at NME, was the Oasis reunion.
04:00And doing some research, I saw last week, Leo, that you managed to go to one of the shows.
04:05Yeah.
04:06How was that?
04:07It was incredible.
04:08It was incredible to see them back together again.
04:10And Paul McCartney was actually there and I think they sang a Beatles song.
04:16And I remember I was in the section next to him and the whole sort of stadium look back,
04:21look back at Paul and clap for Paul too, which was, which was awesome.
04:25It was a great tip of the hat.
04:27So it was a special night.
04:28Have either of you ever come across them in the nineties maybe when you're coming out?
04:31I've never met them.
04:32No, no, but I like them.
04:33Yes.
04:34I didn't get a chance to see them, but yeah.
04:38What do you do when you go to, because I've got a list of names from the guest list for that show,
04:42because it was in Pasadena, I think, wasn't it?
04:44The Rose Bowl.
04:45It's like Paul McCartney, Billie Eilish, Salma Hayek, just full of so many like star names.
04:51What is it like when you go to one of those shows?
04:53Because I imagine quite a few of them are like that in LA.
04:55They sort of just funnel you into one room and you're like the who's who of Hollywood.
04:59You usually have your own separate section.
05:01You don't really talk to anybody, to be honest.
05:04And you look over and you go, oh, so-and-so's here.
05:07But no, it was a great tour.
05:08Everyone's so excited about it, really.
05:11Much like Radiohead, when that happens too, I think everyone's going to do their best to be there for those moments.
05:18Yeah.
05:19Well, we always end on this question.
05:21I know you're both into music.
05:23It's, if there was one album you always go back to, only one you could keep, what would it be and why?
05:29Stevie Wonder and her visions.
05:32Tell me about your relationship with that.
05:34Stevie Wonder is just the great, I say it over and over again.
05:38For me, he's one of the greatest living artists on earth.
05:41I'm obsessed with his talent.
05:44I've always been a Stevie Wonder fan.
05:46Have you managed to meet him, see him live?
05:48I have met him.
05:49It was one of the most exciting moments I can remember in a long time.
05:53And he actually played a song that I requested.
05:56What was that?
05:57That was Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away, which he hadn't played for decades.
06:03And then he played it.
06:04It was an incredible moment.
06:05At the concert you were at?
06:06It was a concert in Australia, yeah.
06:08Oh, amazing.
06:09How did you put that request in?
06:10Just like an email?
06:11I just asked those beeps.
06:12I was like, yo, this is one of my favorite songs.
06:15Can you play it?
06:16And he did it.
06:17That is a flex.
06:18Yeah.
06:19I guess for me it would be Tattoo You.
06:22It's like a family member, that album.
06:26The Rolling Stones.
06:27The Rolling Stones, of course.
06:28The Rolling Stones, yeah.
06:29I got it when I was like, I don't know, 13.
06:32I bought it.
06:33And that's around the time that I left home.
06:36And it was like some talisman or something.
06:39And it's just like I've been a fan of the Stones since I was a kid.
06:43I'm still a fan of the Stones.
06:45So it would have to be Tattoo You.
06:48I bought it.
06:49It came out from the box.
06:51I got it.
06:52And I've been listening to the Stones ever since, yeah.
06:55Both great choices.
06:56Thanks so much for chatting to me.
06:59Sensei.
07:00Sensei.
07:01Sensei, please.
07:02Courage, Bob.
07:03Courage.
07:04That's it?
07:06Courage.
07:07Yeah.
07:08Yes.
07:10Hey.
07:11Thank you, Sensei.
07:12Thank you, Sensei.
07:14God damn it.
07:16Viva la revolution!
07:29You're welcome.
07:34Let's bring them everything.
07:38All right.
07:39I need a set of the Stones.
07:41Welcome back.
07:42You're welcome.
07:43All right.
07:44You're welcome.
07:45You're welcome.
07:46Let's find the Stones.
07:48We will be in the New York City.
07:50All right.
07:51So you've got to makeeso up the Stones.
07:53All right.
07:54You're welcome.
07:55You're welcome.
07:56To be here.
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