00:00Congratulations on this. Thank you.
00:02What did you think when you first wrote the script?
00:04I thought that that was no ordinary project.
00:07I thought that that was, especially coming from Alex Garland,
00:10I thought that that was a very timely and well-written script.
00:15Yeah. And obviously you got a show off this two years ago,
00:18but you're releasing it six months before the election at this kind of crazy time.
00:22How does that timing kind of feel for you?
00:24You know, I think that any art form is an interaction between what an artist wanted to say with it,
00:33with the time and the audience, a particular audience that's receiving this.
00:38Let's think that if this film was released like 10 years ago, it would have a different reception.
00:44If it would release this film 10 years in the future, it would have another reception.
00:51So I always find that very fascinating, right?
00:55Like even like films that are re-evaluated like after 20 years, 30 years and people will look,
01:00Oh my God, look at what this film is trying to say.
01:03But of course it's going to be read in the middle of this polarization,
01:09which is why I think Alex wrote this, which is what this film is about.
01:15Some of the chatter on this has been like, is this going to incite real life violence?
01:19Any of that stuff? Are you worried about that? Or do you feel like that's a risk?
01:23I wish it doesn't happen because this is exactly what, what the film is not about.
01:28You know, the film doesn't have a political agenda.
01:31You can, you can really not say that this is a liberal film.
01:34It's a conservative film. It's a film that says that polarization can lead.
01:39I wouldn't say like it was going to lead to any civil war, but can lead to social conflict, you know, and it's, and it's a problem for democracies.
01:49So it's kind of the biggest thing you want people to take away from this.
01:53Yeah, like I said, I mean, people have different reads, right? Like you have, I know what I thought when I was doing.
02:01I know, I kind of know what Alex thought when he was doing.
02:03But the beauty of it all is that when you release it, it's going to have different reads, right?
02:08Some, some of the reads are like, are like a surprise in a good way.
02:12Some of the reads can be a surprise in a bad way, but I can tell you myself after I wrapped this film,
02:20I really started to reach out to people that think differently politically, you know, and listen to them, you know,
02:27because if, if, if, if you believe in democracy, if you're not like some crazy racist, I don't know, homophobic kind of crazy thing,
02:35I'm really listening, willing to listen to you. And I'm surprised to, I was very surprised to see that there are a lot of common grounds.
02:45Lots of common grounds. If, if, if our differences are only like how the state deals with things,
02:51we should definitely listen to each other and talk to each other and avoid this hate, this, you know, this polarization.
02:58And journalism plays a very important role in that.
03:02And one of the things that we're getting a lot of attention is like the California and Texas being on the same side.
03:07What did you kind of think about that decision?
03:09There was, I was, I saw a poster with that Godzilla and, and, and King Kong are on the same side, right?
03:15They're working together. But in, in this one, I think that if there is an autocrat government, you know,
03:25if there is a fascist government that's like destroying democracy, why wouldn't Texas and California get together to, to bring this guy down?
03:34Yeah.
03:35Yeah.
03:36Yeah.
03:37Yeah.
03:38Yeah.
03:51That sounds like a beautiful, very dear, very nice.
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