00:00You guys are heavily involved in the museum, right?
00:03Yeah, she is a current trustee.
00:06I'm a governor of the Academy.
00:09I'm the governor of the Actors Branch along with Marlee Matlin and Lou Diamond Phillips.
00:14I was a governor when this was not even on the drawing board yet.
00:19I was involved in the saying this must happen because it's going to be a natural resource for the city of Los Angeles.
00:28And any visitor who loves movies, who comes to Los Angeles because of movies they've seen, will come to this building and see what we've got.
00:36And now a couple years in, I mean, what have you kind of seen the value of it?
00:39It's so incredible.
00:41This is the fourth.
00:42Wow, really?
00:44The museum is incredible.
00:45I mean, it's really been a success in so many ways.
00:51And I just think there's so many more exciting things that are coming down the road for it.
00:56So, yeah, it's a great addition to our city.
01:00When the metro station is finished, this area is going to be unlike any other part of the city as well.
01:10There's the new Lackawas coming in.
01:12There's museums galore.
01:13There's the Academy.
01:15There's the Peterson.
01:16It's really going to be a place you'll be able to come here and stay all day long.
01:21And it's a museum.
01:22You don't have to buy, you know, you don't have to buy parking or, you know, a general admission ticket.
01:27You just come.
01:29And you've got here coming out.
01:32Not if you take the metro.
01:35Oh, if you take the metro.
01:36Yeah, yeah.
01:37You've got here coming out.
01:38What did you think when Robert Zemeckis came to you with that idea?
01:43We sit around and talk all the time.
01:46So that he, we were, we're always trying to figure out how can we bust this thing really wide open.
01:54And I asked a question about a particular type of cinematic narrative.
02:03And he said, funny you should ask that question, Tom.
02:06And he had the graphic novel that it was based on, written in 1986, which I couldn't understand the first three times I read it.
02:14But then he also had the screenplay that he and Eric Roth had written on.
02:18So it wasn't so much of, hey, Tom, would you do this thing?
02:23It's like, as Bob said, so what do you think?
02:26I think we should try this?
02:28And we throw ourselves in.
02:30And then after that, it was just, so it's a, it's a great, it's a great hang.
02:34And it's a very challenging working environment.
02:37Bob, Bob can't do anything that's been done before.
02:40So we're throwing deep, baby.
02:42What did you think when you saw the de-aging?
02:45The de-aging.
02:46Well, there's been versions of that.
02:48The technology and the tool that's used here, the difference is we see it in literally real time.
02:56That's what I thought was pretty incredible.
02:58When you're on set, you have a monitor, which is what they're filming and capturing in that moment.
03:03But right next to that monitor is another monitor, and that is the de-aging monitor that you see happening in real time.
03:11So you see Tom in his makeup or whatever, but then immediately next to it, it's already, he's younger.
03:19You don't have to wait for six months of, you know, pre-production.
03:23But don't think that we didn't go through prolonged hair and makeup in order to get there.
03:28We, we went through, you, they have to move our ears.
03:32They have to do stuff to our skin.
03:34We have to have a very, very particular camera ready everything because the expense comes in the skin.
03:42Because you have a tool that literally reads the pores of your skin and matches that up to a thousand.
03:48So what it is, is it's just a great tool.
03:53That's it.
03:53That same sort of tool as spirit gum and crepe hair and, you know, putty noses that utilizes that,
04:00but then takes it to a next kind of level.
04:03Yeah, it's pretty cool.
04:04Thank you so much.
04:05Thank you, Hollywood Report.
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