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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.
03:14You
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