00:00Well, Kit, nice to meet you, and what a wonderful job you did in Pompeii.
00:04Thank you.
00:05You know, the shot in 3D, would you agree it's a reincarnation of an ancient tragedy,
00:13but the themes in this version of Pompeii are timeless?
00:18Yeah, I'd say the human elements in this story are timeless.
00:24You have a very simple love story running through it with a young man who falls in love with a
00:31woman
00:31who he can't have through social status and social restrictions.
00:37Almost a little Romeo and Juliet there.
00:39A Romeo and Juliet style, yeah.
00:41And then the volcano erupts, which destroys anyone's concept of social standings.
00:49It brings everyone to the same level.
00:52Everyone's on the same plane.
00:53And that lets them be together in a way.
00:57And I don't know, I found when I researched the story of Pompeii
01:01and how people in the city died
01:03and looked at some of the plaster casts of people frozen in time,
01:08I found it very moving.
01:09Amazing how it was preserved.
01:11The movie opens on a modern city
01:13and then reverts to 79 AD to Pompeii.
01:18Is that kind of to show that no city will go on forever, perhaps?
01:24That they're all, perhaps, you never know.
01:30I think it's, even today there was a volcano that went off in Malaysia killing 11 people.
01:38I think in our day and age, natural disasters are very prevalent in the news.
01:44I don't think this is making any particularly big statement about that,
01:47but it is a natural disaster movie.
01:51And I think we see that a lot on the news at the moment.
01:53And at that time, Pompeii, am I correct, was like a resort city?
01:57It was like maybe Las Vegas.
01:59It was like Vegas, yeah.
02:00It was the Romans' Vegas.
02:02And it was like, it was a place to go and have fun, really.
02:07I love the scene with you and Emily where you become a horse whisperer.
02:14Yeah.
02:15It's a nice scene, that, in the stables, and he calms the horse down.
02:19And you see that maybe he's a person who doesn't understand,
02:23he doesn't understand other humans because of what he's seen of them,
02:26but he understands animals.
02:28I like that in the character.
02:29I do, too.
02:30And I also like, you know, for a movie, a big epic adventure like this,
02:35is to have, you've got to have a good bad guy.
02:38And I saw Kiefer Sutherland.
02:41He made it interesting, I thought.
02:43Yeah, and it's, I think it's, yeah, you do have to have a good bad guy,
02:49but he has to have a really selfish streak to make him fully rounded,
02:56and I think that's what Kiefer brought to it.
02:57Yeah, he certainly did.
03:00Amazed, you've been on a lot of sets, you've done a lot of work.
03:02Amazed at the effects, as we see behind you?
03:05I did, and what was interesting about this film is,
03:08maybe we haven't made a film about Pompeii
03:09until we can do a movie justice with a volcano blowing up, you know,
03:15and try and bring that to the screens.
03:18And a lot of it, obviously, we don't see until the final product.
03:21There's a wonderful team in post-production, a CGI team,
03:25who bring it all to life,
03:27and so it was incredible seeing it fully rounded
03:28when they'd finished the whole thing.
03:31Well, Kitt's acting, his stunt work are unbelievable.
03:34The good cast, amazing story.
03:36If you're into history like I am, I want to see it twice.
03:40Thank you so much.
03:41Thank you.
03:42Thank you.
03:45Grazie a tutti
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