00:00People came to see Oppenheimer, came to see Barbie, they came to see Top Gun.
00:04So it's, you have a kitchen in your home, yet you like to go out to eat.
00:22Can we say that if cool guys don't look at explosions, cool girls look at the ocean?
00:30I don't know about what cool girls do, but I'm not sure we look at explosions.
00:35We just like to make great entertainment and take you on a journey, transport you from one place to another.
00:40We felt this was a real inspirational story about a young girl who had all these things going against her,
00:46yet she had this willpower.
00:47We like to inspire people.
00:49She paved the way for all the great female athletes of today by the triumph that she did and her
00:55journey.
00:56So it's, look, it's the highest testing movie I've ever made.
00:59I've made some pretty big movies.
01:01So apparently it captivates audiences and they enjoy the ride that they go on with Trudy.
01:06She says in the movie, we go to England or we die trying.
01:11I feel that go big or go home has been the constant in your career.
01:16Why are you so drawn to huge stories like this one?
01:20I like to tell stories about people who got lost in time, whether it's Glory Road or Remember the Titans
01:27or Veronica Guerin or Dangerous Minds or Black Hawk Down.
01:32Those are all people that are lost.
01:34Trudy Ederle had the biggest parade down Fifth Avenue ever for an athlete, and yet nobody knows her name.
01:40Nobody knows who she is.
01:41So it's now they do.
01:43Now people are going to watch her on the big screen.
01:46They're going to watch her in their homes.
01:47And people will remember Trudy for what she accomplished.
01:52She had to swim the last final five miles alone and in the dark.
01:58I think that really swimming the last final miles alone and in the dark, it's the difference between a good
02:06athlete, a good artist and a great one.
02:07So in your opinion, how can we find the courage to swim those last final miles alone and in the
02:16dark?
02:16Well, it's your conviction.
02:18It's how you've been trained, how you've been brought up, all the things that positive experiences you've had and how
02:25you overcome it and the willpower.
02:26She said, I'm going to make it.
02:28I'm going to do it.
02:28And that's a true story.
02:30She said, you know, don't take me out of the water.
02:33And in movies, how do you find the courage?
02:37Because it's not a physical thing, but it's all in the mind.
02:40So how do you find the courage to do a jump in the dark?
02:45Movies like this encourage me because we entertain audiences.
02:51It's the highest testing movie I've ever made, which is interesting considering all the big hits I've had.
02:56I love to stand back in the theater and watch people enjoy what we do.
03:01And fortunately, we have a theatrical release, which is pretty exciting.
03:04So it shows the confidence in the movie that Disney has.
03:08They believe it's a story that empowers their whole brand about, you know, not only female empowerment,
03:15but individual stories about inspiration and triumph.
03:20So I think that's why we make movies, to entertain people.
03:25And this movie does that.
03:26And speaking about that, Jerry Seinfeld recently said that film business is over
03:31and movies are not as relevant as they were in the past.
03:36Since you've made history in Hollywood, do you agree with him?
03:40You know, he's a very smart man, but yet people came to see Oppenheimer, came to see Barbie,
03:46they came to see Top Gun.
03:47And so it's, you have a kitchen in your home, yet you like to go out to eat.
03:54But you got, but it's got to be a good restaurant, right?
03:56You're not going to go out to a bad restaurant.
03:58So if we make really good entertainment, people are going to go out and see it.
04:01But that's what we have to do.
04:03Trudy's sister says that they don't want us to be heroes.
04:06They don't want us to be anything.
04:09They can't win, but Trudy proved that she could win.
04:12So how important is he telling a story like this, especially for young girls?
04:17It's enormously important.
04:19We had a little, I think she was an eight-year-old girl who saw the movie and she said,
04:23God, it's an inspirational story.
04:26So it's, and that's great.
04:28That's what you want to do.
04:29You want to get a lot of women who've seen it.
04:32They want to take their sons and their daughters to see it also.
04:35So it's a movie for the whole family and we like to entertain everybody.
04:38It's for anybody from eight to eight who can enjoy this movie and feel the emotion of it.
04:42We take on an emotional journey.
04:44You know, we transport you from one place to another, to another period, to another time.
04:48And when you see that parade at the end, it validates everything that we tell you in that story.
04:55It's real.
04:56It's the biggest parade down Fifth Avenue for an athlete ever.
04:59And yet nobody's ever heard of her.
05:01Benji says to Trudy that she has to pick the end of God.
05:05Do you feel that in your career you've picked up the end of God?
05:10I don't know about that.
05:11I just try to get up in the morning and try to work hard and make movies for audiences that
05:16they can enjoy and be entertained by.
05:18And give them two hours of forgetting about their lives and forgetting about everything that's going on in the world.
05:25And just take a ride with us.
05:26I think you do.
05:27Thank you so much.
05:28Thank you.
05:29I really love the movie.
05:30Oh, thank you.
05:31Thank you for your time.
05:32Really appreciate it.
06:01Thank you.
06:01Thank you.
06:01Thank you.
06:02Thank you.
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