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Pharrell Williams sat down with The Hollywood Reporter during his THR cover shoot and opens up about his personal story in the animated Lego biopic 'Piece by Piece.' During his interview he talks about the evolution of creating his Lego doc, finding inspiration and more.

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00:00It's never too late. If you're eight years old or you're 80 years old, it's never too late to go

00:04buy yourself a Lego set and like build things, right? Or even in your own mind or even in your

00:10own life to build things piece by piece.

00:23Keith Worrell. Hey, how you doing, man? You know what'd be cool is if we told my story with

00:28Lego pieces. Seriously? Yes. Lego. Just be open. Yeah, that's exactly how it went. I never really

00:37liked talking about myself and I don't really like, I mean these days anyways. My agent at the time

00:44was just telling me about how many people were doing documentaries and how he felt like my story

00:50would be interesting. And then finally he was like, look, I mean, I understand why you wouldn't do it.

00:55You can literally do whatever you want to do. And I'm like, hold on, whatever I want to do.

01:00And he's like, yeah. I'm like, okay, well, cool. Let me think about that. Then I took it seriously

01:07because it was like, okay, they have no idea. I'm going to go left, which is where I feel like I

01:15belong. And so I took a minute and then when it dawned on me, I was like, oh, I want to tell

01:20my story through the platform of Legos. I mean, telling it through the guise of a Lego world

01:27allows everyone to feel like it's possible to not only tell their story, but to also ideate

01:39and be creative. And it's never too late to build things piece by piece. It's kind of

01:44like how it works. And that's the point. That's the point in the film. That's the point in my

01:51story. That's the point in the song. I mean, it's all one thing. It's like, we're all building

01:57our lives here. We're co-creators with the creator, right? So it's like just reminding people of that

02:03and using the Lego world as a platform to tell that story and to communicate that to people.

02:12It took five years to make. It wasn't just the animation that took the time. It was like all

02:17the interviews, you know, just like the thought that went into it because this has never happened

02:21before. You know, this is unprecedented. It's never happened before. I didn't feel vulnerable.

02:26It just felt like, felt like what I'm supposed to do, whether I want to be in front of the camera

02:34or not. And that's the other thing that I really loved is that I personally did not have to be in

02:40front of the camera, but my feelings and my reflections and my observations and, you know, at times my

02:46opinions, you know, whatever I got to opine whatever way I wanted to, like that brought about a level of

02:52comfort that where I wouldn't usually be comfortable because I don't like, I don't like being in front

02:58all the time. You know, in fact, I like being a producer and being in the back, being a writer and

03:03being in the back, you know, it's always an evolution to the process. And if it's not, you're no longer

03:10learning. So you have to remain curious and you have to, you know, listen to different genres and

03:17music of like, you know, what's out there in the world, you know, old and new, just be open.

03:24And that's, to me, I think, is the key. I think my, my levels of gratitude and my processes of just

03:36like how to invest in myself, how to invest in my health, invest in my mind, my body, my soul,

03:42and my spirit, those making those investments, you know, taking the time to block out the

03:49distractions, to just purely invest time and space, being open, being curious. I hope it lights a fire

03:59and every human being is able to see and feel.

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