00:00Hola, Mr. Gleason, this is Gonzalo from Hipertextual in Spain.
00:03First of all, such an honor being here. How are you?
00:05Hi, Gonzalo. How are you doing? Good to be here.
00:08Fine. Thank you very much.
00:10Well, I only have five minutes, so I will quickly go.
00:13I want to ask you, because you were a few years ago in another big franchise, which was Harry Potter.
00:19I want to know if in this experience you had this same feeling of kind of entering something bigger than
00:25usual,
00:26because you are entering the Marvel Universe in a way.
00:30I've got to be honest, I'm a little dim, a little bit dull that way.
00:36It's not the way I look at the work.
00:38Okay.
00:41The work for me is about what's the quality of the writing,
00:44what's the quality of the people who are going to be shooting it,
00:47and is the world an interesting one to go into?
00:53And, you know, the Marvel Universe and all that kind of stuff is either pure escapism,
00:56escapism, which is kind of like at this stage of my career, I'm less interested in.
01:03But it is wonderfully escapist.
01:06And I love that aspect of it.
01:09But to go and explore a character, there has to be something else going on.
01:14So the idea that the noir was going to be where all that was, that I was going to basically
01:19inhabit that space,
01:20where there's such interesting kind of characterizations possible.
01:23That was the big draw rather than the size of the franchise or anything.
01:27It was like, and the ambition of what they were doing.
01:31What you love about these big franchises is what they're able to achieve,
01:35like in terms of cinematically and all that.
01:37And the technical kind of stuff that they're able to pull off and all this advanced technologies that they're able
01:43to do.
01:43And the idea of black and white and color even of itself was interesting.
01:48I had done a movie a little bit like that before in the 90s, The General with John Berman.
01:54But this was going to be just a different aspect of it.
01:58So all of those things, you know, count.
02:01And it means that if there are resources and they're going to get these extraordinary people in every creative department,
02:08you're working at a level.
02:10So it's really more about that, the level that everybody is working at and the way the showrunners embrace that
02:17and would take the ideas of really creative people right across from the costuming to the technicals,
02:22to the cinematography, to the colorization, to everything.
02:26Everything was kind of brought together in a way that was very collaborative.
02:28So that's what the attraction is, really.
02:31It's the opportunity.
02:32And when it's been run by people who know and buy into it, it's really exciting.
02:39That's so beautiful.
02:40That's a lovely answer.
02:41You were talking precisely about black and white and color.
02:44For this series, audiences will have the chance to watch it in both ways.
02:48Which one would you recommend?
02:50Which one would be your favorite?
02:51Black and white.
02:53Unquestionably.
02:54The world is extraordinarily vivid.
02:59And there's a different perspective.
03:01And it was shot, really, as a noir film.
03:04The end of that, particularly my stuff, you know, I had less of the genre stuff in terms of flying
03:10around the buildings.
03:11But flying around the buildings, working in the noir setting, is such an extraordinary kind of achievement.
03:17Because technically, and, you know, I was talking to somebody last night who was saying that technically moving from black
03:21and white to color, you suddenly realize, oh, geez, like the special effects, all the swing and all, all that
03:26has to be tackled in a completely different way.
03:29So even when they got it right for black and white, they needed to kind of really rejig it around
03:33for, so the challenges are extraordinary.
03:35But for me, it's black and white is the world of the people, the characters, the people.
03:41And, you know, the costuming, all those, all those departments work, the design of the stuff was so beautifully done.
03:50And the colors were so vivid and just kind of artistic that you kind of have to switch over to
03:58color every so often and be shocked about how beautiful the color is.
04:03But for me, the world exists best.
04:05I found I was going through three, four black and white.
04:09And I said, I'd love to see and go into a color.
04:13But the following episode, then I'll be back into black and white immediately because it just feels right.
04:19I also love black and white more than color, but color was amazing, too.
04:23It's been such an honor being here.
04:25And congratulations.
04:25The show is amazing.
04:26And you are amazing.
04:27Cheers.
04:28Thanks very much.
04:29Thank you.
04:29Thank you very much.
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