00:02Good morning.
00:03Good night.
00:05Time to go make a movie.
00:07Well, congrats to both of you on the new film.
00:10It's one of the most expansive kind of cinema spectacles I've seen in a really long time.
00:14What was it like for you both to step into Damien Chazelle's crazy world?
00:18I mean, it was a spectacle exactly the way you feel watching that movie.
00:22It was that feeling when you're on set.
00:24You're like, this is so insane.
00:26The scale of it was, yeah, unbelievable.
00:29It's like being part of a Damien Chazelle movie out of the Damien Chazelle movie.
00:33Yeah.
00:33The same kind of experience.
00:35Now, that kind of touches on one of the things I wanted to ask,
00:37but what was it like to make a movie about making movies?
00:41Wow.
00:42So cool.
00:43I mean, this moment when you can, like, I mean, you answered this question better,
00:47but I want to steal your answer.
00:48But, like, you can finally, like, put, like, the audience feeling the movie magic.
00:53Like, this idea that we are always, like, all of us working to get, like, perfection,
00:58and perfection sometimes needs that magic touch, you know, the unexpected.
01:02But when you got it, it's like that feeling of, like, yeah.
01:06And in this movie, you can actually feel it.
01:08Like, you can actually be there in a movie set working with all of us making another movie,
01:12a movie about a movie about a movie.
01:13Yeah, it was so hilarious watching our film crew and our director directing Spike Jones,
01:22who is a director, playing a director, and our film crew filming a film crew who are actually actors,
01:27and they are all filming a film.
01:29I mean, it was so crazy.
01:30And at that moment, you hear them on set say, cut, we got it.
01:35And then they all cheer.
01:37And then for us in real life, Damien goes, cut, we got it.
01:40And then we all cheer.
01:41And then the sun goes down, and everyone's like, we lost the light.
01:45I mean, it's just the best feeling in the world.
01:47There's something so bizarre about watching a film crew film film crew film film.
01:52But being there for it was amazing.
01:56Amazing. It's definitely a surreal experience.
01:57So surreal.
01:58Now, Margot, your character is kind of the original wild child of Hollywood.
02:02Yeah.
02:03Was Nellie Leroy based on a real character for you?
02:05Yeah, in a lot of ways, she was based on Clara Bow,
02:07but she was also based on a lot of other kind of actresses at the time.
02:11But Clara Bow was a hugely famous silent film star, and she was the first It Girl.
02:16She kind of was in this movie called It.
02:18Not scary It, but that coined the term an It Girl, which we now use as a normal term.
02:25But yeah, she kind of kicked that whole movement off.
02:29And then there was like a whole series of movies where it would be about It Girls,
02:33like these party girls that would come in and dance and, you know,
02:37kiss the wrong man and cause some trouble.
02:38And like these movies are like, they're so fun to watch.
02:41It's like a glass of champagne as a movie.
02:44I love it.
02:44They're like just effervescent.
02:45It's not the first time we've kind of seen you play a character who's maybe unpredictable or a bit chaotic.
02:50Yeah.
02:50How did this one differ from kind of previous roles that you've had?
02:53She was more exhausting than all the other characters I've played,
02:57who I thought were quite exhausting as well.
02:58Like Harley is a pretty like, you know, chaotic character,
03:03but Nellie just took things to a whole different level that I adored.
03:08Like she's my favorite character ever.
03:10Now, one of the things that Nellie does in the film is she struggles a little bit to kind of
03:14reel in her accent.
03:15Is that something that you related to as an Aussie?
03:18Yeah.
03:18I told Damien how when I was on Neighbours they got a dialect coach to come in to soften my
03:22Australian accent
03:23because it was so strong.
03:25And I was like, I can totally relate to this with Nellie.
03:27Everyone being like, ah, your voice is awful.
03:29I had the exact same thing happen.
03:31And I couldn't hear it at the time.
03:33I was like, what do you mean?
03:35But yeah.
03:36Softer your Australian accent for an Australian show?
03:40Yes.
03:40Oh, that's a new one.
03:41My accent was so strong.
03:44I mean, you've met my family now, but you can hear how Aussie some of the accents are.
03:49Hmm.
03:50Now, Diego, you're absolutely fantastic in this film.
03:53It's amazing to see Manny's arc throughout the whole film.
03:56What was it about that character that really inspired you to be part of this project?
04:00I think his love for movies and all the hustle he's doing to just be part of this idea of
04:08there's something bigger than life, you know?
04:10I really relate with that.
04:12And I don't know, also like the idea of a Mexican successful during the 20s.
04:17Like when I was doing research, I didn't find like a name, you know?
04:20So that was like pretty exciting too.
04:22Our readers would probably know you best from, of course, Narcos Mexico.
04:26Do you feel like your time in that role kind of prepared you for the amount of cocaine in Babylon?
04:30No, because I was producing it, not taking it.
04:33Yeah.
04:36Now, this film is kind of all about reaching the lofty heights of what cinema can really be.
04:42For you both, is this kind of the pinnacle of where you've been in your career?
04:45For me, yes.
04:47Yeah.
04:47I'm just getting started.
04:48Yeah.
04:51I've peaked.
04:51I don't know how it can get better than this.
04:53I really don't.
05:01Oh, yes.
05:01You'll never forget it.
