00:00So your filmography is a bit different from this movie, what is the challenge to direct Christopher Robin and how you define that, because it's a movie with Winnie the Pooh, but it's also a bit dark, you know, a bit, I don't know, sad sometimes, but I was in love, for example, with the color you choose and the way you define Winnie the Pooh is not a typical
00:30Winnie the Pooh, it was a, you know, it wasn't yellow, it was, you know, beige, something.
00:36So, you know, most people know Winnie the Pooh out of the cartoons.
00:41Yes.
00:41So I went back to the original drawings of Shepard, you know, Christopher Robin is an origin story from the beginning when A.M. Milne created the character, and obviously, you know, you have Winnie the Pooh as a bear for children, and, you know, it has a red sweater, and the sweater is a metaphor for love, for the heart, but then at the same time, A.M. Milne wrote
00:59these incredible Pooh-isms, which are very funny, and they're very philosophical.
01:04So, you know, the movie is really for kids and grown-ups, you know, I first had a, you know, idea when I was with my daughter on a plane, and she was watching a cartoon of Winnie the Pooh, and she turned to me and said, can you finally make a movie for kids?
01:17Wow.
01:17So I said, okay, why don't we make Winnie the Pooh?
01:20And she said, yes, make Winnie the Pooh.
01:21Really?
01:22Yes.
01:22So then I said, you know what, but if I make Winnie the Pooh, then, you know, it's not just for you, and these movies you take me to.
01:29It's for you, for me, and my mother, for everyone.
01:32It's for the whole family, like a classic Disney movie.
01:34And because, you know, in one hand, yes, it's a bear we all love and want to hug, but also he has so much philosophy and so much humor.
01:42It's so deep.
01:42Yes.
01:43He is a deep bear.
01:44So it's also for grown-ups.
01:46So, and I think, you know, the classic Disney movies in my childhood growing up were always for everyone.
01:51Yeah, they destroy our life.
01:53Yes, exactly.
01:53When you said it, there's darkness, all these, but I think that Chris Robin inspires your life.
02:00Yes.
02:01It's about, it inspires your life.
02:04It's about people you, you know, you want to spend time with people you love and care for.
02:07Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:07So, did this movie remind you something like Neverland?
02:13Because it's a lost man who finds his way through the eyes of a child.
02:20I don't know.
02:21How important is to preserve our child's appearance?
02:26Yeah, I definitely, I was, since Finding Neverland, looked for a sort of a piece like it, again, sort of about magic realism.
02:36But I do think, you know, when we grow up, we've been educated.
02:40You, we become older.
02:41You have to be serious.
02:42You have to have responsibility.
02:44You can't have fun anymore.
02:45But at the end, I think when you grow up, it's key to keep your child alive.
02:49because the kid in you makes you happy and you can't forget to play.
02:53It's really about play.
02:55And because if you only become about work, responsibility, life becomes very boring.
03:01Yes.
03:02So, if you don't forget to play and live the child within you, that's sad.
03:08That's sad.
03:09Yes.
03:09Yes.
03:09That is sad.
03:11So, the Winnie the Pooh company is afraid of a half-a-lump.
03:15What scares you the same?
03:20If I'm scared of the half-a-lump?
03:21No, something like death.
03:23Oh, oh, the half-a-lump or death?
03:26Something like...
03:27Oh, that good.
03:27Yeah.
03:28You know, I do think we all have half-a-lumps and boozles in our life.
03:34But I wouldn't say, you know, I'm at a point where I'm very zen.
03:39I'm not really scared of anything because I think at the end, you know, ultimately,
03:44all there is is, you know, love and the people you love and the people who love you back
03:49and everything else really doesn't matter.
03:52Thank you.
03:52So, I'm very zen about it.
03:54Thank you.
03:55Thank you.
03:56Yeah, thanks.
03:57Good to meet you.
03:57Thank you.
03:57Thank you.
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