00:00Morgan, you choose your projects very carefully, what was it about Lucy that appealed to you and made you want
00:06to be in it?
00:07Luc, Luc Besson, one of the most fascinating film makers, Exeter today, I think.
00:18His mind, I mean, he's so inventive, he's so creative. Think of the fifth element. Think of the professional. I
00:34mean, he just got these.
00:35And Lucy, I think, is quite as far out as he's gone so far, except for the fifth element. That
00:42was deep. But that's the biggest draw for me.
00:48And then he says to me, we were at lunch, having lunch, talking about the project, why he wanted me
00:55to do it.
00:57And he said, well, you know, Scarlett Johansson is going to play Lucy. I said, I'm in.
01:07Well, let's talk about Luc Besson. What is he like on set?
01:11I want to say fun, because he's easy to work with. He has this wonderful sense of, let's get it
01:21done. But along with that is his own sense of humor.
01:25So the set is, he just makes work fun. It makes filmmaking easy. And it doesn't have to be hard,
01:39really, you know, unless you've got physical stuff to deal with that's difficult, like working in the rain.
01:48I hate that. It's always cold. But the work itself, it does not have to be filled with tension and
01:59strife, you know. And you're working with Luc Besson, you don't get any of it.
02:05You started our conversation mentioning he was your number one reason to do the movie, and then immediately you jumped
02:09to Scarlett Johansson. What do you think Scarlett brought to the role of Luc Besson?
02:15A fascinating actress doesn't take herself as a being too seriously. Just, you know, she's a lot like, to me,
02:34maybe odious comparison, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep.
02:40They're just real people. Fascinating actress. What I think, what I would call a dedication to the craft, because she's
02:50really good.
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