'Okja' Cast on Tilda Swinton: "She Completely Encompasses the Character" | Cannes 2017 - video Dailymotion

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Paul Dano, Lily Collins, Steven Yeun and Giancarlo Esposito discuss their film with THR at the Cannes Film Festival.

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00:00A lot of people feel like the film shouldn't be in competition because it's

00:04streaming on Netflix. How do you respond to that?

00:07We were accepted into the film festival which is amazing. I mean they invited us here.

00:12Netflix gave us a Bong movie and they took the risk to create such an amazing

00:18storyline and to let Bong do his thing and I'm honored to be here with the film

00:23and to be representing such a brilliant combination of a lot of different geniuses.

00:30Last night I was at the premiere, I cried. People around me were crying.

00:42Did you get emotional watching it and did you feel that from the audience?

00:46I felt it from the audience for sure. I quite love being in the middle.

00:50We were like in the middle of the theater where you could hear laughter.

00:53So we could hear laughter, we could hear crying, sobbing, surprise.

00:59I mean it's great to be in the middle of an audience who hasn't seen it before.

01:03I had seen it once before but not finished. I hadn't actually seen Okja finalized.

01:08And that was kind of emotional because, not kind of, it was very emotional because we had been acting

01:13opposite a stuffed version of Okja for so long.

01:17So to be able to see it and to feel Mija and its connection and our interaction with it.

01:24It was, we shot it just last year. I mean it happened and got put together very quickly.

01:30I took nature and science and I synthesized.

01:38Now you spent the most time filming with Tilda. What's it like working with Tilda?

01:42I love her. She's so definitive about her work.

01:45I mean she's so direct as a human being and warm and lovely and giving.

01:49Yet she's on her J-O-B.

01:52She completely encompasses the character. She leaves you.

01:55And I love playing a character named, you know, the character Frank Dawson

01:58because in much of my time with her, the character is in observance of her.

02:03And in observance of the sister that she plays.

02:06So it was really great for me to be able to, just through my observing eyes,

02:11get so close to her and find out where it was appropriate for me to interject.

02:15And as a character to find out, oh, I'm very much like Frank who really is in a way pulling the strings

02:21and fooling her is operating on a number of levels. But I loved working with her.

02:26You guys worked a lot with the actress who plays Mija.

02:29And she balances this sensitivity and this emotional journey, but also while being a 14-year-old badass.

02:35What was it like working with her?

02:38She was awesome. She didn't speak very much English at the beginning.

02:42Now she's speaking English, but it was really fascinating to see her go through so many emotions.

02:48You know, Bong would just say something to her and she could just alter it so quickly.

02:53Yeah, she was great. She also seems like super down to earth in her own, you know, way.

02:59She's beautiful in the film. She's got such a great face.

03:02You know, her eyes and her expression.

03:04So expressive, yeah.

03:05So expressive.

03:06Yeah.

03:07So expressive, yeah.

03:08So expressive.

03:09Yeah.

03:10So expressive.

03:11Yeah.

03:12You know.

03:13Yeah.

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