00:00Mi scusi, è tardissimo.
00:03Signora Garland.
00:03La prego, mi chiami Giude.
00:05Sono desolato, ma la suite è stata liberata.
00:08Intende che se n'è andata?
00:09Aveva troppi arretrati.
00:11How do you tell a story about a legend?
00:13What was the approach?
00:18Well, this film existed as a play initially on stage.
00:22I have to say I never saw the play, but I read it and it was very much about her performances
00:27in London, and of course that is still in the film.
00:31For me, though, I think what we did in the movie was to try and look at how her childhood
00:36shaped her later life, and that was new material that we added.
00:40And so the more I studied her life, the more unique it was, because it was a Hollywood life,
00:47but also I kind of actually wanted to make her less of a legend and more of a real person.
00:52And so, yes, there is all the iconography you associate with Wizard of Oz,
00:57but also we wanted to make her a real woman, a single mother, with no money, working,
01:02you know, like a lot of people have those challenges.
01:05Okay.
01:06Your previous film was based on a true story, and this is a biopic, sort of biopic.
01:12What do you like about tell a story about reality?
01:16I think sometimes when you're doing drama in whatever form, there can be those moments
01:25where they're joyful, that are pure play, like a child making up a story, but then sometimes
01:31you think, is this ridiculous?
01:34And knowing that you are circling around a truth in some way gives it a gravity, maybe.
01:39But I also find the, it's like portraiture, you know, the difference between a portrait
01:46and a photograph of somebody, that what the actor brings in trying to, and the writer and
01:52the director, but particularly the actor brings in approximating an idea of a character,
01:58an essence of a character, rather than a complete exact replication.
02:03I find that a very fascinating art form, almost in its own right.
02:07Il film, vincitore del Golden Globe per la migliore attrice.
02:12Candidato a due premi Oscar.
02:13The season award is approaching, and which are your hopes about this movie and about,
02:19obviously, the performance of Renée Zerweger?
02:22Yeah, I hope she wins.
02:24Me too.
02:26I, um, look, I'm biased, of course, but I think, you know, when I think about how difficult
02:32what Renée was doing, I mean, because she has to have the courage to take on a legend.
02:37She has to be quite brave about exposing, um, her own age, maybe, at some level, and her,
02:44you know, she doesn't, you know, we're, in the film, we're brave about allowing her
02:47to look beautiful, yes, but sometimes, you know, difficult times.
02:52Uh, she has to sing, you know, which is, sing live, uh, uh, be funny.
02:57She carries the whole movie.
02:58Um, I think, I mean, obviously, you don't win a prize for working hard, but if you did,
03:04she would definitely win, but I also think she's, uh, sometimes people talk about a role
03:10waiting for an actor.
03:12In theatre, we talk about that, you know, that you see, or in opera as well, you wait
03:15for a singer to be ready for a role.
03:17Uh, in movies, it's less true that way, because the role doesn't exist before the movie, but
03:21I think, at some deep level, Renée maybe was, this role was waiting for Renée, and she
03:25arrived.
03:25Yeah.
03:26Okay, thank you.
03:27Somewhere over the rainbow.
03:31Non vi dimenticherete di me, vero?
03:34Brava!
03:35Brava!
03:36Brava!
03:37Prometetemelo.
