00:00I drove over here tonight listening to the wonderful interview you did with Vanity Fair
00:05about your Oscar nominees, about the movies. I loved that. I learned so much more about you that I didn't
00:10know.
00:10But first of all, let's talk about today. How was the Oscar nominees luncheon?
00:13It was so nice, you know, and everybody was telling me that that was the nicest event.
00:19The luncheon is the nicest one because everybody got together, everybody gets together
00:24and you sit in different tables from the tables of your people from the film.
00:30So you get to know other people, talk to other people, you know, and you feel a very nice vibe.
00:37And when you go up there and everybody starts to call the names of the nominees, it's weirdly emotional.
00:44Very nice, yeah.
00:45And I saw you got to hang out with Jesse Buckley, other people, and any other meaningful conversation?
00:51You know, you keep, during this campaign, you keep bumping into sort of like the same people.
00:58So when I, every time I see Jafar Panayi, the actor of It Was Just An Accident, it feels so
01:04good.
01:05His interpreter, and it was nice to see Jesse again today, and everybody from Sentimental Value,
01:11Stellan, Elle, Inga, you know, Renat. It was, I don't know, just Joaquin.
01:19Yeah, it's great.
01:20You know, tell me, one thing I did not know about you when I was listening to that interview is
01:23that you described yourself as shy.
01:25So as a shy person, what has been this whole swirl like for you to step outside your company?
01:30It's not that I'm shy.
01:32There are some things that I, that I feel it's, I think it's when she mentioned, oh, have you, when
01:38I was about to say that I had dinner with Al Pacino,
01:41and I was like, I was, I felt very embarrassed to say, oh, I had dinner with Al Pacino.
01:44That, those kind of things make me feel a little uncomfortable, you know.
01:48And I don't want to ask the follow-up question is, how was dinner with Al Pacino?
01:51Amazing. It was amazing.
01:53And that I can answer really, like, freely, because he's, he's just amazing.
01:57Amazing. Extraordinary.
01:58What did you learn about him that you didn't know from just watching his work by sharing a meal with
02:02him?
02:03It's, you know, the beautiful thing about these people that have like this, you know, like, Al Pacino sort of,
02:13sort of like a God, right?
02:15Like, and, and it's just to see that they are just people just like us, you know, that they have
02:21struggles with their lives and career and family,
02:24like, which is, which is great. Let's just humanize him, makes him closer to, to, to us.
02:30And he's such a sweet man. He was very nice to me.
02:33And so what has been, how hard has it been for you to juggle all of those things too?
02:37Because you have all those things, a family and children and a whole life that you're living.
02:41So how is it to sort of straddle these two worlds?
02:43Yeah, I've been, I've been realizing and I've been saying this, the fact that I have three sons and a
02:50family and things to do.
02:52And then is that it really grounds you, I think, right?
02:55Because this, this, what's happening today and the entire, this is, this is not real life, right?
03:04Like, this is, we, we are doing this every day because it's a campaign, it's business and we are very
03:09happy and it's very rewarding and everything.
03:11But this is not where life lives, right?
03:15Yeah.
03:16So surreal for you because you made a movie that is so powerful and has something to say politically.
03:21And the way that you've sort of navigated this award season by speaking your mind.
03:25And even that, that interview you said, like, some of the things you say will not land well back at
03:29home.
03:30So, so to be able to do that amidst this surreal environment, I mean, how, are you paying any attention
03:36to how things that you're saying are landing back home or your comments on the, on the...
03:41I'm very lucky not to have social medias.
03:44So I don't, I'm not in the middle of the, but I'm sure as the world is completely polarized, I'm
03:52sure that half of the population don't like what I say, you know,
03:59because I'm very clear and I have a position that's very clear.
04:05And yeah, I guess many people don't like it, but I, but yeah, I, I, I, I am a political
04:13person.
04:13I like politics.
04:14I like to say, I also like, I'm a citizen.
04:18I'm a, you know, I like to exercise my citizenship.
04:21And I, there are certain things that I believe that are right.
04:24And I think that that's more important than anything.
04:27It's just say what you think.
04:28You're a citizen who also, you know, fulfills your civic duty and goes to jury duty when you're called.
04:34No, it was great because I got dismissed.
04:36You know, I had to go to the, to the, have you done this?
04:39Yeah.
04:39You have to go to the website like every day after 6 p.m.
04:44And every day they were like, you don't need to come.
04:46You don't need to, until the sixth day and they're like, you're dismissed.
04:49So I, I have to say that was very, uh, relieved.
04:53And then one fun question we're asking everyone.
04:55What's the most, what's been the most unexpected moment of your career?
04:58Maybe it's your Oscar nomination, but maybe it's something else.
05:01The most unexpected thing that's happened to you in your career.
05:03My career, um, I don't know.
05:11I don't know.
05:12Uh, I think that everything is unexpected.
05:15You know, I think that the beauty of it all is like, I'm not a planner, you know, which is
05:20a good thing.
05:20Everything is sort of, sort of like, uh, sort of, uh, unexpected.
05:24I think that's great.
05:25But you are planning something.
05:26You have enough, you have a new movie that you're directing.
05:28You're also going to star.
05:29And I, I loved hearing about that because it must be nice to sort of disappear into a new project.
05:33It's going to shoot later this year, last night at the lobster.
05:35Yes, it's a great, it's, I'm so excited about that.
05:38It's going to be my second feature film as a director.
05:40And it's going to be the first time that I'm going to act and direct in a film.
05:44First time that I'm going to direct something in English here in the U.S.
05:48But I'll be surrounded by people that I really love and trust and talented people like Brian Tyree Henry,
05:55Sophia Carson, Elizabeth Moss, the producer Peter Sareff, the DP that I'm bringing from Brazil,
06:01that I worked with since I, you know, I was a young actor in Brazil.
06:06So it's going to be great.
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