00:00What I wanted to do with Tenet was to take the audience on a very wild ride.
00:22John David Washington plays the protagonist, who's unnamed, he's just referred to as the protagonist.
00:27And that, to me, was always indicative of wanting to create an iconic presence at the heart of the film.
00:34Very much in the tradition of, you know, The Prisoner or Clint Eastwood playing the man with no name, you
00:40know, in the Sergi Leoni westerns of the 60s.
00:44You know, we wanted to tap into that idea of the iconic presence at the heart of the film.
00:48And John David had the requisite charisma to play this kind of character.
00:53That was very apparent to me from his other work.
00:56But also what he had that I thought was equally important, possibly more important, was this sense of empathy with
01:03his fellow man.
01:04He's got a generosity of spirit that I think is enormously important.
01:08Because at the heart of these kind of spy films, generally, there's a degree of cynicism to the character at
01:14the center of it.
01:14And yet these are characters who, at least in the stories, they're prepared to lay down their life for their
01:20fellow human being.
01:22They're prepared to self-sacrifice for an abstract ideal or their country or whatever that is.
01:28And it seemed to us that somebody really prepared to do that in the real world would have to have
01:35a sense of faith, a sense of generosity of spirit, a sense of empathy with the people around him.
01:41And John David was able to bring that to the character while still staying true to the sort of ruthless
01:46professionalism required of these kind of characters to make the most exciting story.
01:51Well, what I wanted to do with Tenet was to take the audience on a very wild ride in terms
01:56of the spy genre and the espionage genre.
01:58But I really wanted to get back to that childlike sense of wonder that I had when I first encountered
02:03the genre many, many years ago.
02:06And to do that, I felt like I really wanted to try and turn it on its head and try
02:10and give people a reason for re-approaching the genre, engaging with it differently, looking at what's really exciting about
02:18it.
02:19And the way to do that for me was to bring in this component, the science fiction idea, this idea
02:25of time and the manipulation of time.
02:27It's something I've been fascinated with for a long time, really based on an initial understanding of the idea that
02:36the laws of physics are symmetrical.
02:38They can run forwards and backwards and they're the same other than entropy.
02:42So, it's really about taking one little aspect of the world and changing it and seeing what that could do
02:48to a story like this.
03:02Here, this is a bit dramatic part.
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