00:00Wow. It'll bring in the serious questions. I'm very impressed. I thought you were going to say, what was it
00:07like to wear an old fancy overcoat in the foggy town of London?
00:28Your character with Jasper's character is kind, is polite, is friendly, is good, as Cruella's mother says she should be.
00:39So how was it being the good, kind and friendly character of the movie?
00:45It was fun. I really like, I really enjoy the characters of Horace and Jasper. I think they cast it
00:52really well.
00:53If you put me next to Joel Fry, who plays Jasper, we just look very funny and interesting, I think.
01:00And yeah, it was fun to play like a sweet character. He does some naughty things. He gets into some
01:10trouble.
01:11But I still think the audience believes that he's a good guy at the end of the day. So that,
01:16yeah, that's nice. I like that.
01:18The Baroness says to Cruella that gratitude is for losers. Do you believe she's got a point or being grateful
01:27is a good thing?
01:29I think being grateful might be one of the best things. I haven't always been good at it. I think
01:36I'm still learning how to do it sometimes because as an actor, you experience so many high highs and low
01:45lows, you know, rejection with auditions and difficult things and being away from family and friends all the time.
01:51And the high highs are great too. I'm very grateful for the fact that I got to not only do
01:57a Disney movie, I got to do, I think, one of the best ones they've made.
02:00I'm really, really proud of the movie. And I'm just excited for people to see Emma Stone. I'm grateful that
02:06I got to work with Emma and Emma Thompson for a second time.
02:10I worked with Emma Thompson on another movie and both women are just incredible. We're very lucky to get them
02:16in this movie.
02:17Artie says that normal is the cruelest insult of all. Do you agree with him? Normal today is almost like
02:29an insult or not?
02:32If normal is considered an insult in modern society, it's probably because we've become so self-focused and delusional that
02:44we can't find any joy or contentment in quiet, small or seemingly dismissible things.
02:54So, yeah, I don't think normal is bad at all. I think we just lose sight of normal because we
02:59keep creating new normals and probably overcomplicating things.
03:04Cruella says that the people need a villain to believe in. Do you agree with her? Sometimes we need a
03:13villain in our lives to justify maybe when we are not happy, when we are frustrated. Do you agree with
03:22her? We need a villain sometimes in our lives.
03:24Wow. It'll bring in the serious questions. I'm very impressed. I thought you were going to say, what was it
03:31like to wear an old fancy overcoat in the foggy town of London?
03:37Yeah. Do we need a villain in our lives? I go back to the New Testament of the Bible. There's
03:46an interesting moment where the Apostle Paul says to God, he says, three times I asked you to take this
03:55thorn out of my side or out of my foot or whatever the phrasing is.
03:59And God never took away the thorn. So, like, sometimes we have things in our lives like villains or problems
04:08that make us weak, but that weakness is just probably to make us human and normal and search for help
04:15or for a higher power.
04:17So, there are some villains in my life, not like Cruella, thankfully. No one in my life is making coats
04:25out of dogs. But I think maybe that's normal. Yeah, that's probably more normal than we think.
04:33But what makes a villain? Because now we see a more complex Cruella. She showed us her story, her side
04:43of the story. So, what makes a villain? Because my villain could be the hero of his own story. So,
04:50what makes a villain in your opinion?
04:52When a person or things, actions start to hurt many, many other people or even one other person. Life is
05:05hard enough. So, I think living life is hard enough that when someone makes living life even more difficult, they're
05:14immediately a villain in some regard.
05:18You know, look at automated systems, like the robotics that take care of your banking. You go to the bank,
05:25you might not even talk to a person anymore. You're talking to a system in a computer or something. Now,
05:31in one regard, that's a hero. Because, oh, it's making it, it might make the process faster. Maybe I'll get
05:38in and out of this place quicker.
05:40So, that might be heroic to some, but it's also a villain to the fact that it took away a
05:45job from another person. And someone now doesn't work at the bank because we have a computer.
05:51So, what is a hero to one can be a villain to another. And this film, I think, explores that
06:00gray area that you can be a good person, but also be drawn to do bad things sometimes, which is
06:06where we find Cruella and her misfit cohort friends in Jasper and Horace.
06:13Yeah. And speaking about dogs, you mentioned dogs. I was working with the two dogs because human characters here are
06:23amazing, but the dogs are extraordinary because 90% of the things that happen in the movie is thanks to
06:30them. So, I was working with them.
06:32It was fun. I got to do one or two training sessions with the dog who played Wink with the
06:41eyepatch.
06:42And I thought it was so cute and so funny. Like, the little, everything a dog does is fascinating to
06:50me.
06:50Like, I love watching dogs just interact with people or interact in their own environment when they think no one's
06:57watching. It's very entertaining.
06:59I think, I think, um, the dogs in this film are, uh, are cast pretty perfectly. I thought they did
07:06a really good job. And, and even though it's tough to work with animals, sometimes, uh, the, the result on
07:13screen is pretty terrific. I'm really happy with what they got.
07:16I was being in a two hour long fashion show because Cruella could be a two hour long fashion show.
07:24I was being in it.
07:25Yeah. Cruella kind of is a two hour long fashion show. Um, it was fun. I love trying on different
07:31costumes. I love that process. Um, sometimes you'll put a piece of clothing on and you'll literally start walking differently
07:39or your posture changes unconsciously.
07:43And it's just a result of you feeling the wardrobe and feeling the setting of what you're trying to inhabit.
07:51So that's pretty cool. That's a lot of fun. And, and I think Emma Stone, uh, some of her dresses
07:58in this movie will definitely be replicated for Halloween or costume parties. People are going to want to wear all
08:04the, all the stuff in Cruella. That's, that's exciting.
08:07This movie is also the new generation asking the old one to step back. So how important is in your
08:16opinion that the new, the youngster, um, make their voice be heard? How important is it?
08:24That's a really interesting question. I think I would answer it by saying this, which is older people have a
08:30lot of wisdom, but they don't, they don't always have knowledge. Younger people have a lot of knowledge because of
08:38the internet, lots of knowledge.
08:40They don't have as much wisdom. They don't have as much wisdom sometimes. So if you can marry the two
08:45and have the young and old learn from each other, I think it could be a very happy scenario, but,
08:52um, it's quite a divisive world we live in where people don't want to really listen or collaborate with each
09:00other so much. Um, which is out of fear, you know, people fear the unknown or they feel, they fear
09:08a loss of control.
09:10And I think Cruella, you know, Estella in the movie, Estella never really had control. She's been trying to gain
09:18control. She's been trying to find her way. And then when she finally finds it and knows what she's good
09:23at and starts excelling, she's fearing losing all of the success and all of the things that she amassed.
09:31So it kind of, it kind of turns her into this villain that she may never have been otherwise. The
09:38combination of fear and hurt push her to the edge to kind of become this villainous person that she becomes.
09:47Okay. Thank you so much. Great work. I admire a lot your work.
09:51Hey, thank you so much. It was really nice to meet you.
09:55Calma, ci sono tante altre cose brutte in arrivo.
09:57Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
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