00:00Nicole, shedding the light that you did on Big Little Lies with domestic abuse and what the sort of layers of that, because on its face of it was something much messier than we initially thought.
00:17What was that preparation process for you and also what were the conversations between you and Jean-Marc, between you and Alexander Skarsgård, between you and Rhys?
00:27Rhys and I talked about everything else pretty much.
00:30And then we would dip in there for about, I mean, so much of when we were all working together.
00:34I remember the first time you were shooting and I was so nervous.
00:38I was like sitting in my trailer like, they're doing the first thing where she gets a kid.
00:42And I like went in your trailer and I was like, it's okay because I was so worried about you.
00:46And she was so vulnerable in her underwear.
00:48Yeah.
00:49I felt my way through the character.
00:51That would be how I, I mean, I sort of, it was beautifully written initially in the novel.
00:57And then it was written by David and then I was allowed to bring some things to it as well.
01:04What did you bring to it?
01:06There were certain things that I would call David and say, it's important that you know that I gave up my career, that I moved there for him.
01:16When he says that I don't love him, it's important that I say, but I gave up this and this and this and this and this.
01:24Isn't that enough to show you how much I love you?
01:27So that you see the constant push pull of the relationship and the desire for him to realise how much I love him, which is to me an interesting motivation.
01:42I mean, that is the motivation of her the whole time is to say, look, look what I will do.
01:46What else can I do?
01:47To keep this relationship.
01:49We get angry.
01:52We fight and we, we then have this crazy angry sex.
02:05And then we make up and it's, it's all better.
02:08And we have this dirty secret.
02:19John Mark is the sort of director that just shoots the rehearsal, shoots everything, keeps going and walks away and goes, well, good.
02:29Yeah.
02:29And that's it.
02:30You know, there's not much.
02:31It doesn't seem to cover a lot or anything.
02:33It seems like he really just kind of sits in something.
02:35He moves the camera in because he shoots as well and they're real heavy of shooting and he'll, I mean, Rhys knows because she's worked with him twice.
02:41But it's a fantastic way to do a performance like this because you're just in it.
02:46And particularly for the, for the sex scenes in terms of a lot of finding those, you know, you, you want a, you want a director who just gets in there and allows it to play out.
02:58And then, and things happen that are very surprising.
03:05The other thing is being a woman and some of us here have children, some of us don't, but boy, any relationship or children, you have so much to, there's so many things I would want to do, but so much of my life is how do I balance that?
03:22Because we're in a position of, I, if I have my fantasy life, there's so many roles and places and things I want to do.
03:30I'm now at a point where I have to go, what's that going to cost me?
03:34Yeah.
03:34And what's that going to cost the people I love?
03:36And as you said, leaving, I want to, do I want to leave now to do this?
03:40But, you know, so much.
03:42And men don't really, I mean, they have that, but they don't have it in the same way that we have it.
03:47Well, they go away and come back and they're a hero.
03:48Yeah.
03:49Well, then they're allowed to go.
03:49We go away and come back and we've abandoned our children.
03:51We have to, we don't get the choices as much with our careers and our lives because a lot of it is we have to be there to take care of everything still.
04:02I do.
04:03And so a lot of my fantasy life is I can go and read a play and I've done it.
04:08I just, I then don't have to go and actually do it because I've, I've done the play, I've done it in my bedroom.
04:14I remember talking.
04:16And that's what I realized at this stage of my life, that's going to have to be enough.
04:26What did you want to be when you were five years old?
04:29Astronaut.
04:30Really?
04:31Yeah.
04:32Because I'd lie on my back and look at the stars and be like, I want to go out there.
04:36I still would love to be able to do that.
04:38Well, would you do it if space travel?
04:40I mean, I would love to, yeah, but I, I almost like, I can take myself out there now.
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