00:00I think these are questions and secrets and mysteries that have followed us for centuries.
00:13It's got to be one of the all-time greatest privileges of our lives working with Stephen.
00:19It was such an honor. You're made to feel so special by him as well.
00:24Just even the fact that he wants to meet you is a great honor.
00:28And you want to breathe the same air as someone who has just changed the face of cinema like he
00:33has.
00:33And yet he doesn't wear that heavily. That is not his front foot as being Steven Spielberg.
00:38It's true. It's like it's a bizarre thing to say out loud.
00:43You've been in a Steven Spielberg movie.
00:45It's even stranger to be sat doing interviews with him.
00:49Then at the same time, he is just the most humble, most kind, generous, excited, curious.
00:56It's like, I imagine every movie is like his first.
01:00He's still so inquisitive.
01:04I can see you.
01:13I see them as quite classic Spielbergian characters.
01:16I think they're idiosyncratic.
01:19They're outsiders.
01:21There's a sort of loneliness, a search for belonging.
01:23I love that Steven doesn't use elite sort of action figures as his protagonist.
01:28That's quite a common theme.
01:30People in search of something.
01:31And they are very much in search of what they were made for in this world.
01:37And they're put through the ringer in this movie, this life or death race towards like uncovering the truth and
01:43those that believe it should remain concealed.
01:45And yet they're pulled inextricably towards it and towards each other and to this shared history that they seem to
01:53have, that they didn't know until this Disclosure Day.
02:00The first time I met Steven, the premise that he told me, you know, is before I'd read a script.
02:06He was like, this is a story about two people who are connected by their past, but they don't know
02:13it and they're being pulled together.
02:15And so that was always the kind of the driving force of this movie.
02:18And, you know, when I first read the script, but also having seen it, it's like it's like a 100
02:25meter sprint.
02:26You know, it's like the gun goes off and we're with you the whole way.
02:30And that comes from trying to these two people trying to find each other.
02:38Well, I think these are questions and secrets and mysteries that have followed us for centuries.
02:44And there's been fear around it.
02:47There's been fear mongered around it.
02:49There's been a lot of things withheld, shushed down, swept under the carpet.
02:55And I think that yet there have been these people who are adamant and convinced very peacefully that they've had
03:03these experiences,
03:04that they have seen inexplicable things that are not of this earth in any capacity.
03:10And I think when I started to kind of research all of this for the movie,
03:14it just became inarguable that these experiences people have had have been authentic ones.
03:18I think that the film explores maybe the injustice that these truths are being hidden from us.
03:24And maybe we have an awful lot to learn.
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