00:00you're our last stop on our digital press tour yeah oh i'm the last stop wow make it better make
00:06it good i have to say love that you met meredith marx i'm so happy that you're a dj now how wild
00:13she was so crazy and wild obsessed i was starstruck are you having a brat summer i'm sorry
00:20what is it again is it we agreed to brought summer forever what exact moment did this idea
00:25spark for you do you have like place in time i think i was sort of it was sort of probably mid
00:342024 maybe like after the record came out probably like end of summer um and i was just kind of
00:44thinking about like this sort of transition that i've been through in my life where i've been this
00:51kind of like relatively like niche sort of artist and then had suddenly been like opened up to this
00:58like huge new audience some of whom really connected with me some of whom only connected with aspects of
01:05me some of whom liked me but didn't really get me or like the music didn't really get me you know and
01:11how to sort of like deal with with that and i think how much you're under scrutiny in the spotlight
01:20um being listened to watched is a really interesting thing i in reality think i handled that quite well
01:28because obviously i've been doing this for a long time it wasn't like i was like an overnight success
01:32like i i've sort of had a very steady kind of a you know trajectory in my career but like i think it
01:41made me so acutely aware of like how hard that transition can be and like how you know in another
01:51world i could have made completely different decisions than i did make in reality and those
01:56are some of the decisions that we chose to make within the film you're constantly pulled apart in a
02:04million different directions in in my line of work well i mean yeah in reality you declared an end to
02:14brat summer you drove it home with your coachella set so i'm i'm curious why did you decide to take
02:20it into your own hands when it could have continued forever and then what inspired you to encourage
02:26your fans to like move on to other artists well i think nothing lasts forever is the thing and no one
02:33lasts forever i i think i've always known that and i think it's it's sort of cooler to just like leave
02:41it all behind but at the same time i do aiden and i've spoken about this a lot it's like that tension of
02:48staying too long is something that we found really interesting and a big sort of fuel for the initial
02:56seeds of the idea of this film because i think that is something that you know the sort of like
03:03business side or industry the commerce side let's say they're always like very much like desperate for
03:10for things to like go on and on and on forever because you can like you know generate more financial
03:16reward from it exactly yes daily but you know we were interested in that we were interested in that
03:24because that is such a reality and i think yeah this this tension of staying too long is is something
03:29that has been very inspiring for us yeah i remember actually in the process of when we were you know
03:34creating the story of this film uh charlie i don't know if you'll remember this but we had we had a
03:39like a we just facetime called each other and remember charlie talking about you know kind of knowing
03:45culture and knowing the sort of cycle of culture i remember charlie saying something like i'm i'm i know people
03:51will get sick of me everyone likes me right now but everyone will will get sick of me yeah and and i
03:57remember asking like well how does that make you feel and you know the sort of personal the human side
04:02of of you is like um obviously that makes me sad and obviously like i'll be i'll cry when it happens
04:08i'll be heartbroken when it happens but i know what's going to happen so something that was interesting
04:12for us when we're making the film was like you know that there's if you've got something and it
04:18makes you feel good the you'll jump at any chance to try and keep that thing around even when you know
04:24you're kind of it's not going to serve you to stay with it you know and that feels true across so many
04:29different parts of our lives you know whether that is you know uh uh a phenomenon album or or it's a
04:36relationship or a job or whatever you know so it felt like a very human feeling yeah that's so real
04:43um so the two of you obviously have a great working relationship how did this differ creatively
04:50in your approach versus like the music videos you've done
05:00it's a lot longer i mean i would say you know aiden and i have made like a video in like from like
05:06deciding we're gonna make it to it coming out in four days like we literally made the guest video
05:12and like from like the beginning to its release four days
05:23you know so this process was obviously really long and yeah yeah yeah and what's so fun about like
05:31when we're able to do really really something really really fast and something really instant
05:35yeah similar thing actually we just put out a video for ag cook's track a residue which is one of
05:42the the tracks from our our musical score for the film
05:52similar thing it was we turned it around so fast we actually shot that in a half day on one of our
05:57press days basically yeah um and and what's so fun about doing that is how instant it gets to feel for me
06:04it's like some of the only opportunities i get to to feel like you're doing something almost live
06:09you know charlie obviously plays shows and you get to feel the reaction of a crowd most of the time
06:13like if i make something you've got to sort of polish it and wet a little way and then and then it kind of
06:19goes out but it sort of feels removed from you so that's like really fun but you know there's something
06:23also amazing about being able to take a lot of time spend ages together really have an idea and um
06:33and a purpose um that you want to get across and then spend a lot of time figuring that out you know
06:39and that's what we got to do with this film so how has your relationship evolved have you gotten
06:44closer like what's the vibe now yeah we honestly have to do this remotely so much press and we're
06:53like oh no i think well i mean i hope charlie you back me up on this over the course of the filming
07:00charlie and i really became best friends we were already really close and really got each other
07:04but you know we it's like in order to make this film we had to be so honest with each other all the
07:08time charlie had to share really like the most sort of personal side of herself and i was grateful
07:13that i was able to be someone to talk to and work with you know when we were when we were figuring
07:19these things out but charlie what do you think yeah i think you want me do you want me to make you
07:25feel good something nice um yeah no i mean i agree completely it's like we've as aiden said we we were
07:32already you know close prior to this but i think this has just sort of bonded us in such a
07:38a huge way as friends but also as like creative partners because i don't know it's like i feel
07:45so lucky to have made or been a part of making aiden's first feature with him like i really do feel like
07:54he has such a you know singular vision and i think the more and more films he makes the more that's just
08:02gonna get honed and i just feel yeah i just feel really like excited for whatever you're gonna do
08:08next aiden and hopefully i'm i think it might be us together again can't get rid of each other
08:15you heard it here first yeah love to hear that um so 29 days you guys filmed this in 29 days that's
08:25insane what was the biggest challenge with that i mean well as charlie said earlier we're we actually
08:33have been used to extremely expedited timelines so i um i don't know i mean it's it's it's it's the
08:42longest i've ever worked on anything so weirdly it kind of didn't you know it has a really condensed
08:47timeline for a film it's extremely short amount of time to shoot a film in but um yeah it's it's
08:53i guess the funny thing is that most of the time we i'd really been used to shooting something and
08:58within two days you know you've shot everything that you need for that final thing and so it's
09:03funny being like a week two weeks in and you've maybe got 45 of the film in a button in a box
09:10somewhere so that feels strange to be like have have we have we got it all yet you know you feel
09:17like you're kind of waiting in the dark for a lot of it and then and then eventually you've got all
09:20this stuff you gotta click together but what about you charlie i mean the stamina of it i think and and
09:27as aiden said that's not even very a long a long film shoot but it's very short yeah for me that it
09:34was the that was the sort of um that was the longest time i've been on set as an actor and so
09:42just kind of like the stamina i think you know keeping the energy alive and we really tried i think
09:48this was really important to us and actually one of the good things about shooting this in such a
09:54short amount of time was we kind of could keep the sort of party chaos like frantic energy that you
10:05sometimes film feel in the film alive because you know we had like four weekends together so every
10:11single weekend we would just go out and we would and then sometimes even when we were on set because
10:17we were shooting in a rehearsal space we had a huge pa system so sometimes aiden would just like blast the
10:23prodigy like whilst they were like setting up a shot and so it was kind of like this like
10:35constant energy up which was really it was cool yeah yeah i i damaged the ceiling of a karaoke place
10:43but i did pay for it i did pay for it yeah because it was just we were just having the best time i paid
10:48for it i paid you back i paid you back you did my goods
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