00:00...e' dealing with some different things, but yeah, it was nice to be on the other side of it,
00:05not kind of running the show, but just kind of like going along for the ride,
00:09as traumatic as that sometimes was.
00:12You're not the Marsha of the situation.
00:15Exactly, yeah, yeah.
00:21Brings you here.
00:22Just, it's vacation.
00:24Got it.
00:27So what you like?
00:29Hi, Federico Bascotto from Italy for Movie Player.
00:32Hi.
00:33Hi, nice to meet you.
00:35First of all, would you go on a retreat like the one in the show, and why?
00:41No.
00:43No, no, no.
00:45Because I think people went in with one set of expectations,
00:49and those expectations were completely blown up, and chaos ensued.
00:54And it just got a little...
00:56I'm open-minded.
00:57I would go on a retreat, I would do some psychedelics, I would meet new friends in a beautiful location,
01:02but just that level of chaos is just outside of my comfort zone.
01:07Yeah, yeah, ditto.
01:09I would definitely be interested in doing that, for sure, just not with Marsha.
01:15Yeah.
01:15Not with Nicole's character.
01:17Well put.
01:17Yeah.
01:17I can agree with that.
01:20For the both of you, we tend to idealize people in show business, and they can't fail.
01:27They always have to be perfect in our eyes.
01:30That's, in a way, what happens between Brian and Imogen.
01:35a way to talk about our perception of society, not only about getting cancelled, don't you think?
01:41Yeah, I mean, I think it's a beautiful opportunity in this show between these two characters to kind of play
01:49with that.
01:50And, like, you know, what we project on people in the public eye, how they can become quite important to
01:57us and can play sort of a vital role in our life.
02:02And then, you know, if it comes to a point where we realize they're not perfect, we feel betrayed and,
02:09like, it stirs up all this kind of stuff in us.
02:14And the possibility of what comes beyond that once we realize that.
02:18And, you know, it's just a, it's something that feels very current and, like, just well written, I think, in
02:27the show.
02:27And a beautiful kind of opportunity to explore that stuff between the two of us.
02:33Yeah, I really, what I love about, the shows that I love the most are the shows that exist in
02:38the gray area.
02:40And it's not just black and white, good and bad, because humans are all of it, you know.
02:46So it was really fun to, especially with Murray's character.
02:50My character thought he was, because he had done one pretty awful thing, she just painted him with one paintbrush
02:55and decided he was terrible and a write-off and not worth it, but then peeled back the layers
03:01and realized he was just a pretty troubled man going through a really hard time.
03:05Hey!
03:07It's true, just admit it.
03:09But, yeah, it was so much fun to play the gray area.
03:13We are all humans, after all.
03:17Murray, how did it feel to switch from the crazy stuff of our resort on the White Lotus
03:23to the crazy guests on our resort on Life's Perfect Strangers?
03:29I mean, it's sort of a different dynamic, I guess, in that you're not kind of the ringleader,
03:36you know, you're kind of like the sort of the victim, maybe.
03:41Not that Arman wasn't a victim at some point in White Lotus, but so there's a dynamic shift.
03:47I guess, you know, both of these characters are, you know, quite sort of larger-than-life
03:55characters in the way that, you know, what I love about these kind of characters is that
04:01they're not actually larger than life.
04:03In fact, there are characters in life that are much larger than these characters.
04:08characters, and so, you know, getting to sort of play these types of characters and anchor
04:14them in something that feels kind of human and real is, like, something that I love.
04:19It's a beautiful challenge, and they're quite, you know, they're quite different characters.
04:22They're dealing with some different things, but, yeah, it was nice to be on the other
04:27side of it, not kind of running the show, but just kind of, like, going along for the
04:31ride, as traumatic as that sometimes was.
04:34You're not the mash of the situation in this movie, right?
04:37Exactly, yeah, yeah.
04:39Annie, for you, how it feel to switch from a spoiled daughter on Sheet's Creek to a strange
04:47daughter, in a way?
04:48You make a good point.
04:50I kind of did switch from a...
04:51I didn't switch.
04:52I went from a spoiled daughter to a spoiled daughter.
04:55Two very different types of spoiled daughters.
04:58Yeah.
04:59Who I think would not care for each other at all.
05:02I've been thinking about that.
05:04There's a show in there, like, the two characters come together.
05:09But it was, it was, it's always fun to play a new character, and I've been saying it's,
05:15what I love most about acting is that you get the opportunity to play characters and behave
05:21in a way that you would never in a million years would ever consider behaving as a human on this
05:29earth.
05:30And so any kind, any time I get to play bad behavior, I really, really thrive and enjoy
05:37it and milk it for all it's worth.
05:39And you sign immediately.
05:41Yes, exactly.
05:42Sign me up.
05:43Okay.
05:44Mary, a line from your character says that sometimes people fail not because they don't
05:50care, but because they care too much.
05:53This line can be applied to both your character in a way.
05:59Yeah, I think it's such a great line because I think when we, you know, often when we try
06:07and force things or we're too attached to an end result or a status quo, it can make us
06:17crazy.
06:18You know, it can make us clinging, cling, and it can take us further away from the thing
06:26that we actually want.
06:30So I, you know, I think that there's something to be learned about that and it, you know,
06:37it's encapsulated in that line.
06:39If we're just kind of like can take a breath and be kind of easy and compassionate and kind
06:46of not let ourselves get up, get caught up in our projections or our judgments or whatever,
06:52then maybe it's going to be a smoother ride, you know, and that we can just kind of accept
06:58people for who they are and kind of roll with the punches in a way when we sort of cling
07:03to
07:03the things that we think that we want too intensely.
07:08It can just end in disaster.
07:12Oh, gee.
07:14Annie, do you have something to add?
07:16I mean, yeah, I think Imogen ended up at this retreat because she has just been trying way
07:23too hard.
07:24I think she was broken at a very, very early age and spent her teenage years and her young
07:30adulthood trying to fix the trauma and to mend herself through various types of therapy
07:38and it hasn't worked.
07:40and she's someone who is so smart and is usually able to figure everything out and this has
07:46been the one crucial thing that she hasn't been able to figure out and it's driven her
07:50crazy.
08:17Thank you.
08:19Grazie a tutti.
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