00:00Bueno, Tomás, hola, es Gonzalo de Ipertextual en España.
00:02First de todo, ¿cómo estás?
00:04Such a placer.
00:04I'm doing well.
00:05I'm so pleased to get a chance to speak with you.
00:07Thank you very much.
00:08Bueno, I guess I would like to start with the reason of this movie
00:12because lots of people are wondering
00:13why you guys are making a remake from a movie
00:16that is only 10 years old.
00:18So I guess, as a director,
00:20you are the best person on the planet to answer that.
00:23Well, maybe I'm the best person on the planet.
00:25I mean, I think about it very simply.
00:27I don't know where you were 10 years ago.
00:30But I was pretty different.
00:31And if you're six years old and you watch this movie,
00:33now you're 16, or you're 16 and you're 26,
00:35or you're 30 and now you're 40,
00:36you see the world in a absolutely fundamentally different way.
00:40And anybody who has not seen the world in a different way,
00:42that would be surprising to me.
00:44So I think that there's an opportunity in that.
00:46Because if you saw this when you were a kid,
00:48and now you're a teenager,
00:49if you're a teenager and now you're in your 20s,
00:50if you weren't a parent, now you're a parent.
00:53If you had lost somebody early
00:57and were still very close to it,
00:58and now you have distance,
00:59and it's like so many of those.
01:00I mean, so much happens in a decade.
01:03And so I think the opportunity to try to put this forth
01:06with flesh and blood,
01:08with two people looking at each other,
01:10eyes and spirits coming through,
01:12it just felt like opportunity.
01:14It felt like we could take this thing that we loved
01:17and honor it and also make something new.
01:19Yeah, that's such a beautiful answer.
01:22Of course, live action and animation are two very different formats.
01:25So what's the thing that you always have to keep in mind
01:27when adapting something like that?
01:29I don't know if it's something technical like CGI or something like that,
01:32or it's something deeper like the mean of the movie.
01:34What's that that you always have to keep in mind?
01:36It's a good question.
01:37You know, I've never done an adaptation from something that exists in animation,
01:41but I have done revivals.
01:43And I often work in the theater where something existed,
01:46and now you bring it to bear in a new way.
01:48And that's happened for the history of theater,
01:50which is why we're still doing plays by the Greeks,
01:53you know, thousands of years later.
01:54So I think, for me, it's more about the text.
01:58It's more about the material and how we interpret that.
02:00Because even Dwayne playing this part again,
02:03Dwayne's not the same person he was 10 years ago.
02:05You have Catherine stepping into this role,
02:07who has her own essence that she's going to shine through,
02:10as well as, you know, everyone else in the company.
02:12So because we're now, you know,
02:15sort of acknowledging that acting is an interpretive art,
02:18you know, even saying the same words is so different.
02:21Thousands of people have played Hamlet.
02:24Thousands of people have played King Lear.
02:26And each time they step into it,
02:28something different is revealed.
02:29That's so clever.
02:32A few years ago, we had Moana 2.
02:35I don't know if you guys,
02:37if this movie does as well as it's expected,
02:39you would like to adapt also Moana 2 into live action?
02:42Or would you like to go into another way?
02:44Like, for example, what happened with Lion King and Mufasa,
02:47which we had an original story.
02:50I mean, it's a great question.
02:51What I'll say this is I'm hoping people like this movie.
02:55And at some point in July, if everybody likes this movie
02:58and they want to talk about other things like that, that's wonderful.
03:01My feeling is, you know, this movie and its existence
03:06is about the expansion of that feeling that Moana gives us.
03:10I think one of the reasons why we were so happy to see Moana 2
03:12is we were back with our friends.
03:14There they were.
03:15And like, we were back with them.
03:16And it's why people watch television shows year after year
03:18because they want to be with the people that they care about.
03:20And I think there's something about these characters
03:22that were created in 2016 that we just want to be around.
03:25And that includes Heihei.
03:26You know what I mean?
03:27Like, it's even the chicken people want to be with.
03:28So it's really a testament to, you know, to that original
03:31and to the material and the characters that were made.
03:34Heihei is the MVP for me.
03:35So come on.
03:36For all of us.
03:38Now I would like to ask you, was it easier when you accepted this project?
03:41It's of course, I guess, thousands of ideas came to your mind
03:45about how you were going to do it.
03:47Was it easier for you or was it harder than you expected
03:49to adapt something like this material?
03:54It was incredibly difficult to do.
03:57But I was surrounded by the most passionate, dedicated,
04:02and high-level craftspeople and artisans and thinkers and designers.
04:06So you can't not be inspired.
04:09And my job is to make sure that we're all cohesive
04:14and moving in the same direction
04:15and telling the same story with the same language.
04:18So my job started three years ago and doesn't really ever end, right?
04:23Like, I mean, like, until, like, the movie is out into the world.
04:25You know, even this part of it, this is also part of my job.
04:28My job as a director is to talk about the movie,
04:31the making of the movie, what I think it means
04:33and maybe, you know, how we made it.
04:34And maybe that gets someone to come see it
04:36that didn't think that they wanted to see it.
04:38Oh, that's not for me.
04:39So, like, that's all the job.
04:40And I always say, like, directing isn't just being on set.
04:44Directing is conversations in the hallway.
04:47Directing is, you know, swapping images with the props master.
04:50You know, it's just so many different things.
04:52And I feel like it's, you know, I don't think work needs to be easy.
04:59I don't work because it's easy.
05:00I work because it's hard.
05:02And that's something that I feel very passionately about.
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