00:00Hi, nice to meet you. Ciao.
00:20In this movie, you play a villain, but a villain can be the hero of his own story.
00:29So, I want to ask you, what makes a villain, in your opinion?
00:33You know, I spent over a year trying to figure that out, and then I decided not to even question
00:41it anymore. I don't think this character, Safin, thinks about being heroic or being villainous.
00:49He's more pragmatic. It's a one-track mind situation. How can I inflict as much
00:59severity and brutality on Bond and accomplish my goals in the process?
01:08So, hero or villain, that's inconsequential to him.
01:12The constant is pain. Okay.
01:13Okay. Okay. Are you familiar with the no theater, Japanese theater? What can you tell me about
01:21that no mask?
01:23Well, our director, Kerry Fukunaga, has Japanese heritage. So, I think he's always been influenced
01:31by it. And that has seeped into the movie in a number of ways. But in regards to Safin,
01:40we wanted to keep it, the character, an enigma. And to balance an Eastern philosophy with a Western
01:48philosophy was an idea that we came up with. So, incorporating that mask with the costume,
01:55kind of tethered all of that together.
01:57Can you tell me if we will see at least a wedding, a funeral or a baby shower?
02:07Are you, um, maybe in, what is the Julia Roberts movie that all of that happens? No,
02:15no, I don't think that, it doesn't happen here. No.
02:19You said that you kiss James Bond. I was kissing James Bond better than trying to kill him.
02:27It was fun. You know, it was nice to have a lighthearted moment in the midst of all the chaos
02:34of shooting. Sometimes just a moment like that takes the pressure off of everybody. And it was
02:42great to be able to collaborate like that. Usually you don't have that, you're not afforded that amount
02:48of time to step off of set and do a rehearsal and, uh, you know, start to, you know, uh,
02:57re-imagine
02:58what the scene initially was and get to the root of it. Because oftentimes we end up going back to
03:04reshoot things that if we just had spent a little bit more time fixing on the day, uh, we would
03:10save a
03:11lot of people, a lot of time and energy.
03:13You, you've been, uh, Freddie Mercury. Now you are in the Bond franchise. You've become,
03:20um, a British icon, but you're American. How did you do that?
03:26Uh, I don't know, you know, I've fallen in love with, with England and, uh, I, spending so much time
03:34here preparing for Bohemian Rhapsody was, uh, a time that I, I really cherish and that's when I
03:42started to fall in love with the city of London. Uh, and then from then on, you know, I would
03:48come
03:48back and forth, back and forth for meetings. Uh, I shot the film here and then stayed afterwards
03:55and then we shot Bond here. So it becomes something of a second home and perhaps one day my, my
04:03first home. But I love the proximity to Italy, to Paris, to Rome, to Florence, to Venice, Sicily,
04:12all of it.
04:13Okay. Thank you so much. Bye. Ciao. Ciao.
04:22Avrò diritto a una serata piacevole prima che il mondo esploda?
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