00:00Hi!
00:09L'orso è strafatto di cocaina!
00:15Un orso si è fatto di cocaina!
00:17Do you look at bears in a different way now?
00:21You know, I really don't,
00:23because this particular bear
00:24just came across something
00:26it never should have come across.
00:27You know, the real problem of this film
00:30are the humans.
00:32It's the drugs being dropped.
00:33You know, I remember reading the real story
00:36and really having sympathy for the bear,
00:38feeling so sad that that bear
00:40was sort of collateral damage
00:42in this war on drugs, you know?
00:43I think our little character Henry
00:45says it best, like,
00:47you're the problem at the end.
00:48You know, this is all your fault.
00:50Like, none of this would have happened without you.
00:51And so I don't, I hold nothing against bears.
00:55I'm still a fan.
00:58Yeah, it also could be a huge metaphor,
01:01this angry bear on drugs.
01:03So in your opinion,
01:05what does it represent to you?
01:06You know, I read this film in April 2020.
01:09And to me, a bear high on cocaine really,
01:13it was a metaphor for the chaos
01:15that was going on in our world, you know?
01:17that there's just nothing more chaotic
01:19than a bear on cocaine.
01:20And directing this film really felt like a way
01:23to almost tame that chaos, you know?
01:25And pull people through the trauma of it
01:30and use humor also to, like,
01:32I really wanted to give people
01:34a communal experience in the theater
01:35where they could sort of process the chaos
01:38and trauma of what is going on all around us,
01:41but also laugh and be with their friends
01:44and feel like they could, you know,
01:46go have a beer afterwards
01:47and it would bring people together.
01:49You were saying that the people
01:50are the real villains here.
01:52But from the poster,
01:54we could imagine that the bear is the villain.
01:56So I'm asking you,
01:57what makes a villain in your opinion?
02:00I think intent.
02:02You know, this bear doesn't mean
02:04to be doing any bad thing.
02:06So to me, the villains in this piece,
02:09it's their hubris and their greed.
02:12That's what makes them, you know,
02:14they want, they just can't let go
02:17of, like, the golden chalice, right?
02:19They have to get that bag of drugs
02:21and it doesn't matter who's standing in the way.
02:24And I think they just can't see,
02:26they couldn't see the forest for the trees.
02:30You took many risks with this movie.
02:34Do you believe that it's important now
02:37taking risks with movies?
02:39Because we have many sequels,
02:41many standard movies.
02:42Yours is really peculiar.
02:45So how important was to you taking risks?
02:48I loved how unique this felt to me.
02:52Honestly, I made a movie
02:53that I wanted to see in the theater.
02:55That's all I ever do.
02:56I only direct things that I want to see.
02:59And I put actors in them
03:01that I want to, you know, put into fun situations.
03:04I love surprising the audience.
03:06So the big risk to me here
03:08was that the bear was never on set.
03:10I never knew what the bear was going to be.
03:13Like, how is the bear going to look?
03:15Is it going to take people out of the movie?
03:17Is it going to look, you know,
03:18too animated or too sweet?
03:21And so that was the risk.
03:22The risk was I had to go through
03:25an entire process of making a movie
03:26and I never had the star of the movie on my set.
03:30And that was really scary.
03:31I had to really, you know,
03:33just hold hands with everybody
03:35and jump in with both feet.
03:38And I'm so glad I did
03:39and I'm so glad it worked out
03:40and I had incredible partners with Weta
03:43who created this bear.
03:45Thank you so much.
03:46Thank you.
03:47Thank you.
03:47Bye.
03:51Thank you.
03:52Shh.
03:52Che fortuna stare nella natura.
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