00:00Sir, you're an icon. Let's start with that. Let's just get that part out of the way.
00:04And then two, we about to have some fun. This show has had me hooked from season one.
00:10How much does the truth cost? Because I've seen Bernard protect. I've seen Bernard attempt to
00:18give people a reason to keep going, but it also always ends up in this universal roller coaster
00:26of people not knowing. How would you describe him as a whole?
00:30Well, he's what happens when you have something to hide. When you can't be honest, you need people
00:36like Bernard to be the buffer between the citizens and the power. And the power convinces people like
00:45Bernard to tell lies for the greater good, to manipulate the information that goes to the
00:53public because it's best for them. And so the power requires the compromise of the morality of the
01:03leaders that communicate with the public. And that's what I found really fascinating about it,
01:08because I've been aware of that dynamic for years. The big lie for the greater good,
01:15justifying war and death. And I've always had a real revulsion of it,
01:21but I've also been really curious about what is it that happens inside someone that makes them
01:29do that to themselves. And you know what it is? They always retain virtue. They always say,
01:36you know what, I'm doing a good thing. No bad guy ever believes he's doing a bad thing.
01:42They all have rationalizations that elevate them and their egos to that, you know, this is a difficult job.
01:51And it's, you know, it's very big burden, but someone's got to do it. And I'm the one,
02:00but guess what? Guess what? They also have power. And that's the real reason they do it.
02:06They also have the brandy when no one has the brandy as Bernard does, right? It's there's perks
02:13that come along with power. Silo is so good. If you really pay attention, it actually, if I'm wrong,
02:19it has real life applications to like today. The silo itself, classism, what you're assigned to be,
02:28that's what you're, that's what you're supposed to be. When I first read this script, I couldn't
02:33believe how relevant it was because we were just coming out of lockdown. Yeah. Two years of
02:40lockdown. I had to close my theater for two years and I'm reading a script that is talking about an
02:45entire society that's locked down. Their, their movement is, is, is, is restricted. The information
02:51they receive is restricted. Uh, anyone that steps outside of the narrative, that questions the
02:57narrative is excluded from society. All the stuff we had just been through and are still going through
03:03to some degree. If still, if you question the narrative, you can be excluded from society.
03:08Here we are, here I am reading this thing and realizing, Oh my God, they're talking about now
03:13they're talking about right now. And that's what great drama does. You know, when Shakespeare was
03:18writing, he was writing, you know, Richard the third, but he's really talking about the King right
03:22now. He has, you know, he can't be blamed for it. It's a fictional character. I didn't, it's not you.
03:28It's, it's that. So the same thing, the whole origins of drama way back thousands of years ago,
03:35when it started, it was about a communication between the citizens of Athens, Greece and the
03:42people on stage. And what were they telling? The stories they were telling were about recent
03:47traumatic events that happened. Great wars that had a lot of death, famine that had a lot of death,
03:54plague that had a lot of death. The society was traumatized by it. So the citizenry had to go
04:00through an experience on stage where they witnessed a drama that could give them catharsis and
04:07understanding of what the trauma they had just been through was. They could cry, they could have,
04:13they could laugh in the comedies. They could make a mutual communal experience with all the other
04:19people in the audience and understand deeper what they've just been through by acknowledging
04:25it. Right now we have this situation where everyone wants to say, Oh, you know, if I don't want to
04:30think about it, it just said it's over. No, no. We went through a trauma as a world that was
04:37unprecedented. It's never happened in human history. Two years of a lockdown. Show me the history books
04:43where that happened. I have to say this, man. Writing is dope. The directing is dope. Storytelling
04:49is amazing. I appreciate you. And I think it's amazing, man. Thank you so much. Thanks.
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