00:00So this is a story about love.
00:06Very much so, yeah, absolutely, yeah.
00:09Yeah, it's a story about the very universal experiences like love, yeah, absolutely, love and life and death.
00:17And I think, you know, that's always what's appealed to me about writing it from the start,
00:22was that hopefully these universal experiences would really be, you know, end up being quite profound
00:28because, you know, because everyone sort of goes through them to one extent or another.
00:32So, yeah, I'm glad you thought that.
00:34And there is a really beautiful connection with the hands.
00:38Yeah.
00:39So the movie opened in there, but during all the movie, you can see how important is the touch.
00:48Yeah, yeah.
00:49The piano, the writing, how they love each other with their hands and everything.
00:55Yeah.
00:55I don't know if it's something.
00:57Yeah.
00:57Yeah?
00:57Absolutely.
00:58I mean, I think I always tried to make, the film's about intimacy, right, I think basically.
01:04And I think the way we shot it and the way we performed it was with that in mind at all times.
01:09So when I was writing it, I was trying to find something that felt like a motif throughout the film.
01:15But it had to be something that was sort of an expression of their trust and their love for each other.
01:21And because, as you say, they both work with their hands, one way or the other, a pianist or a writer,
01:25it felt like that was quite a nice little simple connection between them throughout.
01:31And one of them is a musician.
01:33Yeah.
01:33And the soundtrack is amazing.
01:35Oh, yeah.
01:36Thank you.
01:36Yeah.
01:37We're at the Broadway and we have so many beautiful bands about 70s or 80s.
01:43How did you choose the songs to put inside the movie?
01:46Well, I think the songs needed for me to reflect the characters and their generation.
01:53So I wanted it to sort of speak, speak to that generation and be kind of, and be like kind of modern and cool.
02:00I mean, they're kind of cool guys, kind of, sort of.
02:02So it was partly because of that.
02:05But then also we work with this incredible composer called Keaton Henson, who's really, he's really well known in the UK.
02:10He's a kind of folk musician, and this is his first feature film.
02:15And then, of course, you've got Colin playing at the end.
02:18So, yeah, there's a lot of music in the film.
02:19But it's not him.
02:20It is him, yeah.
02:21Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:22It's amazing because he, so Colin, he plays piano, but like not that well.
02:30Like he used to play as a child.
02:32And right from the start, I said to him, look, I really, I want this to be as natural as possible.
02:37I don't really want to fake it.
02:39I think if we can try and find a way of making it work.
02:43And he said, look, I'll learn it.
02:44I'll just learn it.
02:44And he was amazing.
02:46He's just the most dedicated guy ever.
02:48I mean, we know he's a, you know, really incredible actor.
02:52But what I didn't know was that he's so amazing next to Stanley Tucci.
02:59Yeah, I think the, I mean, the film was always going to either, it was going to live or die on the two central performances.
03:05And the believability of that relationship.
03:09And I think we were helped enormously by the fact that they're best friends in real life.
03:13And they love each other.
03:14They've known each other for 20 years.
03:16They've been through some really difficult things together, you know, in their personal life.
03:20And we worked with that as much as we could.
03:24You know, we, obviously the characters are very different from them.
03:27And the situation is very different, obviously.
03:29But there was such a natural rapport and like love and chemistry between them right from the start that it was kind of effortlessly beautiful right from the first, you know, the first day.
03:43And the story is very different.
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