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00:00Philip, from all accounts, was a grand character.
00:09He was loud, loved women, was drunk, and obviously just to have almost unimaginable power in battle, as his son did,
00:27because when you read the details of the battles and see the miles that they covered and what they accomplished in such a short period of time, it's pretty staggering.
00:44The character Alexander finds himself deeper and deeper immersed in a world of reality that is a myth.
00:51He does things that humans haven't done, and that's his search, is to find some sense of home, reconciliation with his parents.
01:00So, in playing the character, I was just so looking forward to being the character.
01:06He's charismatic and he's a brute.
01:08I mean, the story begins with him, the film begins with Alexander's death, and then immediately the first real scene is with Olympias.
01:23It's magnificently played by Angelina Jolie, basically in a process of a kind of seduction with her son.
01:33There's a particular scene where Colin is addressing the troops, and like he learned from his father, and was, I'm sure, he saw his father be right down on the ground with his boys.
01:56And he's on horseback, but he delivers this Henry V-like speech to rally the troops, and it's just so wonderful.
02:11Like a lot of scenes, and I think the whole film, it's something that we've wanted to see in the classic, in quotes.
02:20But it's tragic. I mean, I don't think it's because I'm playing Philip, but one of my favorite moments in the story is when Alexander asks his mother, he says, you know, did you ever love him?
02:33And she says, I never stopped.
02:35I just find it so dramatic and poignant in the story, because he's so desperate to be himself, and he only understands himself through mythology.
02:53And that sense of becoming, you know, rest in action, that I think Oliver Stone shares with the character a lot, that he's just got a restless soul.
03:10I just loved it.
03:13So he saw them dead.
03:14And that's why the triggers are so desperate to him.
03:15He hasuccimal written.
03:18So he doesn't have to come to blood.
03:22I see you, though.
03:24His mother has all been stopped.
03:26They didn't have to move to the back of the ship, and as I write, I've told you, that that the ship would have been to Somewhere located?
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