Kate Mara Calls Ted Kennedy Inspired Film 'Chappaquiddick' "Thrilling and Upsetting" | TIFF 2017 - video Dailymotion

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Ed Helms and Jason Clarke also star in the John Curran directed piece.

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00:00I guess I want to start off with, John, I heard your birthday's tomorrow.

00:02Is that right?

00:03What?

00:05Damn!

00:09No, you know what that is?

00:10That's a mistake.

00:12In Australia, I used to live in Australia, and they say it in reverse.

00:17Day month.

00:18The 9th to the 11th.

00:19Yeah, day month.

00:20Oh.

00:21And so my birthday is November 9th.

00:23What?

00:24Is that true?

00:25Yeah.

00:26My birthday is November 9th, but for some reason online, it's 9th to the 11th.

00:29You're correcting it now for the world.

00:31Are you sure you didn't?

00:31But no, don't.

00:32Don't correct it, because what happens is I get birthday wishes on two different days.

00:37So for any identity thieves out there, the proper birthday.

00:41Lovely.

00:48This is the story of Chappaquiddick, which is an incident where a young Ted Kennedy, Senator

00:56Ted Kennedy crashed a car off of a bridge, and there was a young woman in the car who

01:02died.

01:03Ted Kennedy then sort of didn't handle it quite perfectly.

01:09The film's really that week, that pivotal week in Ted Kennedy's life.

01:13Yeah.

01:14I don't think any of us were trying to mimic him, you know, specifically and go too hard

01:20on that.

01:21You know, and Jason did a fantastic job making the character his own, which I think is the

01:25point.

01:26I didn't know.

01:27I really didn't know anything about this story.

01:29So reading the script for the first time was really quite thrilling and upsetting.

01:34And I couldn't put it down.

01:37So I really had to research, you know, as much as I could about Mary Jo and about the

01:43entire, you know, incident, because I wasn't familiar at all.

01:48But there isn't, you know, there's only so much information out there about her.

01:53So, yeah, I definitely, I tried to find out as much as I could.

01:57But, yeah, that was about it for me.

02:00I did it all, as much as I could.

02:02I mean, right from, you know, making teeth, which took a lot of work.

02:05And she did a lot of help to get that, you know, Ted smile and size of his face to getting

02:09a wig right to, um, and then video-wise, I didn't know there was a wonderful sailing

02:15movie of Ted and, um, and, and, and, and, um, Joe, Joe Gargan, um, sailing, you know,

02:23just free and easy.

02:24But really, you know, Steve McQueen, glasses, cigarette in the mouth, pulling up the sails,

02:29pointing to the, you know, and then to the, to the great speeches of Ted and his family

02:33and his brothers and his father.

02:34And it's, it's researching this story and this family is, is, is, is, you know, modern

02:41American and moral history in the 20th century.

02:43I think that they'll take away that my character, Joe Gargan, was so pivotal to American history

02:52in a way that, uh, they had no idea before.

02:56Right?

02:57I mean, when I, when I kind of, uh, um, that's right, that's right.

03:02Yeah.

03:03Yeah.

03:08Yeah.

Kate Mara Calls Ted Kennedy Inspired Film 'Chappaquiddick' "Thrilling and Upsetting" | TIFF 2017

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