00:00Happy New Year, my friend.
00:01Happy New Year to you. Good to see you.
00:03We're doing this all over again.
00:04We're doing this all over again, and you're going to go get an award tonight.
00:06I know. Isn't it nice? It's so beautiful to come back here again.
00:09I guess every time I come here, I'm going to pick up an award.
00:11Maybe that's it. I can't just come and just stay for the summer.
00:14I have to come only at this time.
00:15You know what? It's a good reason to come to get an award,
00:18especially when you know you're going to win.
00:21That's actually the most relaxing thing,
00:23because you're just here with your colleagues.
00:25I feel like you're just shot up at a cannon.
00:27I was just in Punta Mita for like a week,
00:30and now suddenly I'm back into all this.
00:32But I feel great, because I'm here with Sing Sing and my colleagues.
00:35It's beautiful.
00:37Congratulations on this ride with this film.
00:38I feel like this has been such a special journey.
00:41You know, they're all special, but this one in particular for you.
00:43This does feel different.
00:45It feels like, because I really do feel like there's a power in our film
00:49that can really promote some real change.
00:51Not only change in the way people treat inmates
00:54and what access they have to arts
00:57and things to do some rehabilitation,
00:59but it has changed the heart and minds of people examining inmates.
01:03Because usually we've seen a few prison dramas,
01:06and we think that that's all there is.
01:07Instead of also some people in these places
01:10that are really doing their damnedest to do work,
01:12that does some real soul work and some transformative work.
01:15So much so that there's a less than 3% recidivism rate
01:19among men who go through this program,
01:21rehabilitation of the arts,
01:22compared to 60% nationwide.
01:24So for me, when you look at that margin,
01:26you're like, this is a film that can promote some real change.
01:29That was really beautiful.
01:31Also beautiful, these gloves.
01:32Gloves are a thing, aren't they?
01:34They're a thing.
01:34They're a thing.
01:35And you know, I was also just reading your cover story
01:37in Palm Springs Life or Palm Springs Magazine,
01:39where you said your New Year's resolution would be maximalist,
01:42which I think this qualifies.
01:44Listen, Alessandro, Alessandro Michelle, who's at Valentino,
01:49will let you know that he's very maximalistic, basically.
01:52It's phenomenal.
01:53Look at this.
01:53I mean, why we chose this, and this is custom,
01:56was because it feels like Palm Springs in the 1960s,
01:59but also has a little bit of Victorian England.
02:02I love the fact that it feels timeless.
02:04And I feel like I'm a man of the world,
02:06and I want to express myself in that way.
02:08It should feel North African,
02:10and I don't know, I think I have a lot going on
02:12in all the right ways.
02:14I took the words right out of my mouth, by the way.
02:16Looking ahead to 2025, you have a lot of exciting things coming.
02:19You're re-teaming with your Lincoln director, Steven Spielberg,
02:22which I saw.
02:23I know you probably can't say much about it,
02:25but just tell me what it feels like to reunite with someone like him.
02:28Well, I first worked with Steven Spielberg in the very beginning of my film career
02:33with a little film called Lincoln.
02:35And I just had the opening scene, and I was the opening voice.
02:38And now for that journey to have been lasting,
02:43and every time I would see Steven throughout the years,
02:45we did know we wanted to work together again.
02:47And so when this project came up,
02:49he said I was one of the first that he thought about.
02:52And so it's myself with some people who I really love and admire,
02:55like Emily Blunt and Colin Firth and Joshua Conner and Eve Hewson,
02:59I think we want to make something special,
03:01something very special that is written and directed by Steven,
03:06which is beautiful.
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