00:00Do you really believe that music is almost like a superpower?
00:05Yeah, I do. Absolutely I do.
00:13Ecco a voi Elvis Presley!
00:17Tagliate i capelli, Fiorellino!
00:21In quel momento, vidi quel ragazzo smilso trasformarsi in un supereroe.
00:32Hi, nice to meet you.
00:34Nice to meet you.
00:35Fine. So, since Strictly Ballroom, your motto as always has been
00:41a life lived in fear is a life half lived.
00:44Yes.
00:45But it's not easy. It's not easy. How can we fight fear?
00:50Well, you know what? It's not like I don't have a magic gift for it.
00:54I'm fearful and I'll wake up every morning on the set.
01:00Or when I'm working on the script or when I'm working on the project.
01:04Or when I think I can't find Elvis.
01:08And I'll be fearful. I'll be just full of fear.
01:12But I see it as my job.
01:16To create an environment where fear is held off.
01:19I have to fight the fear for everybody else.
01:23See, Valentina, it's called, you know, what we do for a living is play.
01:29It's like play acting or a screen play.
01:33And, you know, little kids, they can't play.
01:36They can't play when they're fearful.
01:40So, around five in the morning, I get up and I don't know,
01:44maybe through my dad's commando training, you know,
01:48jump in the icy water and crawl on the bottom of a river, you know,
01:54to the bank, I say, I just flick a switch that goes, no fear.
02:02And I don't say I'm fearless because I'm full of it.
02:08But I've got to keep the fear away so that the actors can play.
02:12I love the scene in which music is almost like a superpower
02:17that enters in Elvis' body.
02:21You use comics in this movie.
02:23You use them also in The Get Down.
02:26Do you really believe that music is almost like a superpower?
02:31Yeah, I do. Absolutely, I do.
02:34Because I think words can do certain things.
02:39Actions can do certain things.
02:41But music touches and moves us in a way that's almost inexplicable.
02:46It's very hard.
02:48I don't think anyone, you can sort of scientifically explain it.
02:52I think Pythagoras realized that music and math lock up
02:56and that the body has certain reactions to certain mathematical rhythms.
03:00But who can explain why when Andrea Bocelli or Pavarotti
03:11sings that high note in Nessa Dorma, who can explain why the soul is so exalted,
03:19why we all collectively just feel it's a feeling that you can't explain,
03:24but somehow collectively we're all lifted up.
03:28And it's intriguing to me that for good and sometimes for bad,
03:34collective singing can be used to make people do things they otherwise wouldn't.
03:40I feel that in each one of your movies, the real villain, the true villain is it's time.
03:47Why are you so obsessed with time?
03:53Because it's limited.
03:55I mean, you know, and it's like, I mean, Elvis lives a 42 year life.
04:03And I've got to tell it in two hours, two and a half hours.
04:07Okay.
04:07Two hours, 34 or something.
04:09And, um, but time is also like, you know what?
04:16If time was money, maybe if you're really lucky, we'd be giving a hundred dollars for our life.
04:24By the time you're really cognizant, you've already spent, you know, kind of 10 of it.
04:30And then at the last, the last kind of 20, I'm not saying 80 is nothing, but 80 to a
04:37hundred.
04:37And who lives to a hundred?
04:38Hardly anyone.
04:39So, you know, as you look at it as dollars, the amount of time we've got is quite precious.
04:48So how to use it.
04:49And I like to try and make sure that my time is adventurous and that I feel alive.
05:00And I've lost my way sometimes, you know, I've lost the feeling of being present and alive.
05:09And when you do that, you realize how whatever it takes, you've got to use your time to feel present
05:18and alive.
05:20And since the pandemic, like being in Cannes, that amazing ovation wasn't fake.
05:27And the crackling visceral excitement in the streets to watch movies and for people to be together again and, and
05:35live life collectively and feel human.
05:39And that wasn't fake, you know, people have a deep hunger to feel alive again.
05:48And that's all about how you use your time.
05:51Okay.
05:52Thank you so much.
05:54Thank you.
05:55Great work.
05:56Bye.
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