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00:08We read a manuscript of a book called
00:10The Descendants by first-time writer
00:12Cowie Hart Hemmings and
00:13immediately saw it
00:16as a film.
00:18Alex?
00:19Dad?
00:21What's up, Dad?
00:23What's happening?
00:24You need to come home and see your mom.
00:30I guess the novel appealed to me
00:32because it's a human story.
00:34It's the emotional story of a man who
00:36has to deal with his two pain-in-the-ass daughters.
00:38You were supposed to be getting your act together.
00:40I've been doing really well, actually.
00:41Nobody ever seems to notice that.
00:48I got an email from
00:50Alexander that said, I've decided
00:52Descendants is going to be my next film
00:54to direct.
00:55I just about died.
00:57I mean, he's my favorite director.
01:00I think I was relatively faithful to her book.
01:04I'm the backup parent.
01:05The understudy.
01:06And with Elizabeth, my wife, at the hospital
01:09my daughters are testing me.
01:11He's sort of reconnecting with his daughters
01:13for the first time.
01:14He is now forced to be in charge of these two girls
01:17who he doesn't know very well.
01:23I don't like eggs.
01:26Why didn't you tell me before I made them?
01:27I thought they were for you.
01:29He's kind of like in his own world.
01:31He's never really been there
01:33to put the kids to bed
01:35or to make sure they're dressed.
01:37That was the mom's job.
01:39Put on a swimsuit.
01:40Why?
01:41Now.
01:43Real good job you're doing.
01:45Alex's relationship with her father is
01:47she loves him and she knows
01:49that he has a lot to offer
01:50but she also looks at him kind of as the child
01:52and she kind of takes on the parenting role
01:54in this movie.
01:55You really don't have a clue, do you?
01:59Mom was cheating on you.
02:03George's character, Matt Cain, goes through this whole arc
02:06and this transformation and this journey to find him.
02:08I want to see his face.
02:10I want to go too.
02:12Sid's coming too. Is that cool?
02:13Sup, bro?
02:15He's come to hang out with the family
02:17while they go learn more about their mother
02:20learn about this guy that she was having an affair with
02:23to go try to find this guy
02:25and get to know each other in the process.
02:28This is part of your great-great-great-grandmother's inheritance
02:31going all the way back to Kamehameha the First.
02:35Down there is where mom and I would camp.
02:38We all did all our lives.
02:41Lots of memories.
02:47I'm incredibly proud of what this movie promises to be
02:51which is absolutely unique.
02:54You don't need to be told you're watching an Alexander Kamehame movie.
02:57He's a master filmmaker.
03:00He makes awesome movies that are different and beautiful
03:04and the characters are flawed
03:06and they look like normal people and they're amazing.
03:08Well, the nice thing about being a director is
03:11you get the credit for a director but you're never alone.
03:13To have actors like George Clooney, Bo Bridges, Matthew Lillard, Judy Greer, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, and Robert Forster have
03:22this series of collaborators, that's a good feeling.
03:27What you've been going through, that's a tough deal.
03:29Just trying to keep my head above water.
03:44What you've been going through, that's a tough deal.
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