00:04Piacere
00:30So there's both characters dealing with a lot of people, and I think especially every person's villain with a really
00:32funny part of this circle, and they don't want maybe to know.
00:32Piacere
00:33So I want to ask you, if, in your opinion, hate on social media is the modern version of it.
00:39Man. Yeah!
00:51I'm not someone who uses social media, so I don't really know.
00:54But I do feel that there's all sorts of energies being spent on social media.
00:58People getting themselves very worked up about things and polarizing themselves and being very reactive and things spinning back and
01:08forth.
01:08And you hear stories of violence, things happening because somebody's offended someone on social media.
01:13It's a whole world that after initially looking into it, I've chosen to completely avoid.
01:21So I don't really know how that works.
01:22And from what I can see, it's a rather toxic thing.
01:26And social media is obviously good for spreading messages about movies and things like that.
01:29But all of this sort of fighting in social media seems to be a negative thing, a kind of Tower
01:35of Babel.
01:36It's also anonymous bullying.
01:38I think that's what is at least maybe in the archaic version, you would look someone in the eye and
01:48tell them what you thought.
01:49And now you get to hide behind a computer screen and say whatever you want.
01:52And I think there's a toxicity in that.
02:00And hopefully less blood, I hope.
02:04First, Ura in Star Trek, then Wonder Woman, now Elizabeth.
02:09You have a difficult relationship with strong women on screen.
02:13They are all strong.
02:14So in your opinion, movies, TV shows are changing?
02:22How so?
02:24Yeah.
02:24What do you mean?
02:25Because you have constantly co-stars, female co-stars who are strong, independent.
02:31Elizabeth is really, she knows who she is.
02:35She stands for women's rights.
02:36So, yeah, I think there's, look, I think there's strength in all different versions of being a woman.
02:43I'm not a woman, so I don't want to speak for women.
02:46But I think of someone like Gal Gadot, who's a mother of two young children.
02:53She's a wonderful mom.
02:54She's also a great actress.
02:58Florence in this film plays a woman who is incredibly, incredibly, strong.
03:04Someone asked me yesterday about Florence and the Me Too movement.
03:08And if we had, because there were so many men on set, if we had like a conversation with her
03:12to make her feel comfortable.
03:14And I said, if there's one person on planet Earth who can handle herself amongst anyone, it's Florence.
03:20And she would be the first to say if she felt uncomfortable.
03:24So I enjoy being around strong women.
03:29I think I grew up with strong women.
03:30And I don't really, that's, that is my, that is my model of womanhood is someone who can be, yeah,
03:39I don't know.
03:40One of the great things about this movie is the relationship between Chris and Florence, Robert and Elizabeth.
03:46And the history of this arranged marriage with these two people, she was the goddaughter of the occupying King Edward
03:55of England.
03:55And it shouldn't have been anything more than the marriage of convenience, but it grew into something that was quite
04:02strong.
04:02And then they were ripped apart and she was in captivity for many years.
04:06And then she, you know, she stood up for Robert in that period of captivity and then they returned and
04:14raised a family together.
04:15It's a kind of almost a fairy tale of happy ever after story.
04:18And that's the history of these characters.
04:20And it's wonderful for the film, which is quite a male film, to have this really strong female presence and
04:26this really lovely romantic art, which is a true story.
04:29In the end, Robert says that he's not king of land, but king of people.
04:33Now we have leaders who want to build walls between countries.
04:38So how important is his example?
04:44His example was an old 700-year-old story about someone trying to rid his country of occupation
04:53and trying to push back against oppression and the sort of surrender of his country and create an identity again.
05:08And that's very important for his story.
05:11The contemporary resonances are so complicated and go and touch so many different things that it's very hard to pin
05:18down, I think.
05:19Okay. Thank you so much.
05:21Thank you.
05:26Thank you.
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