00:00Yes, Valentina Netti, Italy, movie player.
00:03Hi, nice to meet you.
00:05Hi there, nice to meet you, Valentina.
00:07Why in many of your works you are literally obsessed with father and sons or father and daughter relationship?
00:19Why do you love so much this type of stories?
00:23Well, you know, it's so funny you say that because like the two most well-known ones is Magic Order
00:29probably.
00:30And Jupiter's Legacy, which is, but they were written seven years apart, you know, and in between them, I wrote
00:35maybe 20 other things, you know, but Hollywood tends to move in trends.
00:39So Wanted, Kick-Ass and Kingsman all featured a young man who wasn't living up to his full potential, suddenly
00:46living up to his full potential, you know, and Hollywood loved that story for a little while.
00:51And we had it with Superbad and we had it with Zombieland and everything as well.
00:54So I think what Hollywood's looking at right now is family stuff, you know, Succession.
01:00I'm seeing it with Succession, seeing it with the new Superman show that's out, seeing it with Jupiter's Legacy.
01:06But it never fails.
01:07You know, things about families are always just so interesting, aren't they?
01:10Like it means more when it's your family.
01:13The Godfather works beautifully for that reason that we really care about these people.
01:16because even though they're doing terrible things, they love each other and that makes it so important whenever something happens
01:23that if somebody's about to lose their brother or lose their son or something, it's enormous compared to just losing
01:29your friend.
01:30So I do like family stories.
01:31Plus, here's a weird thing.
01:33There's never been a live-action family superhero story yet.
01:38You know, interestingly, The Incredibles is the only one I can think of in its animation.
01:42So it's quite interesting.
01:43It feels like uncharted territory, and I always like to do something a little bit new.
01:48You're an artist, so you share with Sheldon his sense of wonder, his seek of adventure.
01:56Do you believe that he becomes the greatest man on Earth, the most powerful man on Earth, because he's a
02:03true believer, because he wants wonder?
02:05He wants to believe in wonder.
02:07Oh, yeah, completely.
02:08I mean, what I love about him is he wants to save America.
02:12I mean, that's what the whole character was in 1929.
02:15He saw everything fall apart around him, but he had such a good sense of decency, you know, that he
02:20was eventually having these weird visions.
02:22Something was calling out to him, and it wasn't for himself.
02:25He never wanted to make money or be famous or anything.
02:27He wanted to go to this place where he was told in his dreams that America was going to be
02:32saved.
02:33And we find out in later volumes and later seasons and everything what that thing really is, like what has
02:38actually called them out there and what they really want.
02:45Everything is, his code is at the core of this TV show.
02:51But his code is questioned by his friends, his brother, even his son, his daughter.
03:01So times change.
03:03So in Europe, you know, what makes a good leader today?
03:06What is the code that we have to ask to our leaders today?
03:14Well, it's interesting because the story is all about populism versus the opposite of that, you know, which is interesting
03:21because the most important thing with a leader you would imagine is to listen.
03:25But at the same time, if you do listen to people, sometimes the people are saying things that aren't very
03:30nice, you know.
03:30So, like, I mean, for example, most people believe in capital punishment, you know, and maybe that's an unethical thing
03:37as well, you know.
03:38So it's interesting.
03:39So what you have to do, I think, in his philosophy is you have to live your life by a
03:43good set of values.
03:44And he tries to live his life by this simple code, which is to try and always do the right
03:49thing, always be decent.
03:50But it doesn't always work.
03:51And the world is falling apart around them.
03:53And some of the younger heroes, it's very interesting.
03:55They're all starting to say, are we actually being bad by not using our power to help the world?
04:01You know, we've got climate emergency.
04:03We've got people being tortured in concentration camps.
04:06We've got starving in the third world.
04:09Why are we going after bank robbers?
04:10So it's a very interesting ethical dilemma.
04:12Do you end democracy and have the superheroes take over or, you know, the others?
04:19So that's the big argument between the two groups.
04:22I think that these characters are so fascinating because we see them first time in the 20s, then almost 19
04:33years later.
04:34So we know that we know their past and their present.
04:38Do you believe that to know where we are going, we have to know our history, our past, how important
04:43it is to know our history?
04:45Yeah, I think never forget where you came from.
04:48I always think that's so important in life, no matter what.
04:50And it's, I mean, I come from a small town in Scotland and working in Hollywood and everything, but I'm
04:55as comfortable, if not more comfortable, in my small town in Scotland.
04:58That's why I still live in this country, you know?
05:00So it's quite easy to get taken in and become brotherless and kind of lose track of what's important and
05:06who you really are.
05:07So, yeah, I totally agree.
05:10I think that is really moving how brotherhood is at the core of the source of power.
05:18But we tend to forget that brotherhood is what makes us human and makes us live.
05:26So how important was it for you in light, this sentiment of brotherhood?
05:32Well, do you mean within the family itself or just as a whole?
05:37When they obtain their power, they are like brothers.
05:43Yeah, I don't want to spoil it.
05:46No, I love that aspect of it, you know, because I think that the fact that there's a family bond
05:52between each of these guys is so powerful in the story.
05:54But what that also means is whenever betrayals come in future seasons and everything, as we can see, you know,
05:59from the end of season one, it's doubly hard.
06:03And it's not even who you're expecting.
06:05Sometimes it's people who we love in the story and they go a certain way.
06:08Game of Thrones was actually a comparison here of where this is going to go.
06:14Yeah, and you are also obsessed with human brain.
06:19Why are you so fascinated by human's mind?
06:24It's a superpower in our brain.
06:28Well, it's such a fascinating thing, isn't it?
06:31The idea of superpowers where somebody lifts a car or flies or something we've seen before.
06:36But the idea of playing around with intelligence and also psychic abilities is really visually very interesting.
06:43So, for example, one of the first things I came up with when I first started doodling this 10 years
06:47ago was the idea of fighting someone in the physical realm,
06:50but also a fight going on an intellectual level inside somebody's head.
06:55I thought that's so interesting.
06:56I've never seen that before.
06:57So I love the idea of always trying something that nobody's done before.
07:00That's what keeps it fresh for me, too.
07:03OK, thank you so much.
07:04Great work.
07:04I love the TV show.
07:06Thank you.
07:07I'll see you next time.
07:08Thank you.
