00:00So Lily, we all started Citizen King at the university and now I'm here talking with you about Monk that is based to the making of that movie.
00:10So I think this is what I call the true magic of cinema, the unexpected.
00:16So what is for you the true magic of cinema?
00:19It's quite similar to what you were saying in that you just never know when your art or something that you enjoy creatively watching or experiencing is going to mirror your real life.
00:35And for me, you know, doing a film like To the Bone a few years ago, which deals with a subject matter that I experienced and that my experience with it could benefit the story and vice versa.
00:48And it could be healing in a sense to doing something like Emily in Paris, which is healing in another way in that people are laughing and smiling while watching it.
00:59And we all need to laugh and smile more right now to something like Monk, where I grew up being obsessed with old Hollywood, visiting Hearst Castle, knowing all about Citizen Kane and watching it and just being so enamored by it to then being in a movie about it.
01:17It's it's it's all these kind of moments when you can thread your life and and your experiences with your craft or an art form in a way that is so healing and beautiful.
01:32Like that's the magic of cinema.
01:35It's it's it brings people together and it can heal you in a way that you weren't expecting either as the actor or as an audience member.
01:43And I think that that's beautiful.
