Featured Session: Baby, This is Keke Palmer Live

Unknown Speaker 0:00 And today, Unknown Speaker 0:07 we're going to hear the Unknown Speaker 0:09 answers. Guys, you don't care about me. You Unknown Speaker 0:20 Oh, Unknown Speaker 0:36 excited guys to be here with you. My new film, I love boosters, directed by the brilliant, has just had the world premiere here in Austin. What did you guys think? Unknown Speaker 0:50 Did you check it out? Professional shoplifters engaging in what we call fashion forward, okay, stealing from a fashion logo to send a message about power, money and consumerism. But the best part of making this film was part of Unknown Speaker 1:05 making this film was getting to work with some truly incredible women, and I am so excited to talk with them about This movie. So please welcome Demi Moore Gonzales, Hey, Unknown Speaker 1:20 God Unknown Speaker 1:40 let's give another round of applause. Unknown Speaker 1:59 You really show up and show out. But you definitely did without Unknown Speaker 2:04 realizing. I know we applied Unknown Speaker 2:07 for the meeting and we could not make it happen like we're not a group of artists in a group chat is not good for planning. Unknown Speaker 2:21 Still happen because psychic you you guys feeling after last night? Everybody got to see the movie with people, like we watched it before, but it's different when you get to watch it with an audience, especially like one like South by Southwest, like the perfect audience. So how do you guys feel after just getting that reaction? Everybody it was Unknown Speaker 2:43 wonderful. I feel like it was really electric. I just don't think films come to life until you see it Unknown Speaker 2:50 with an audience. It allows you to forget that you're on screen, which is only Unknown Speaker 2:56 easy when you're watching yourself. Unknown Speaker 3:01 It was incredible to feel the response and also to be part of a film that you want to see. You want the communal experience. You want to look through paper and go, Holy shit. I felt the exact same Unknown Speaker 3:18 way I was just waiting for everybody Unknown Speaker 3:26 in the building's teeth Unknown Speaker 3:30 on the big screen, the dripping teeth. It kind Unknown Speaker 3:34 of had multiple movie has multiple movies in it. Like, when people hear me talking about it, they're like, I thought this movie was about Unknown Speaker 3:46 boosters. Riley doesn't just make movies, right? Build worlds. I mean, they're creative and they're surreal. What drew each of you to this story, and what's the state that you feel like, Unknown Speaker 3:58 the way this movie is making well, they all around. Unknown Speaker 4:03 Well, I know that working with boots has been like a bucket list career dream, and so when I was first sent this group, I was ecstatic, and boots and I had a zoom and, you know, it's a complicated world. Some scripts you read, it's very intuitive, like, what's going on, he kind of had to, like, say the vision, even when we were filming it, I feel like a lot of it is a fever dream that influences mind. And until you're sitting there seeing the final product, you're sort of like, oh my God, that's what he was envisioning the entire time. So I was talking to character and everything, and I did my tape afterwards. I remember just thinking that I was like, even if I don't get this role, I was like, I already feel so happy that I got the chance to talk to him, I got to read the script. I was like, it's making it's reminding me that the right creative collaborators are out there. And it just gave me a feeling of hope. And then I did get to do it with him, and that was such a dream. Unknown Speaker 5:00 Come true. I just finished Unknown Speaker 5:03 filming. Welcome Unknown Speaker 5:13 to dairy, which was seriously but it was that's obviously really dark and poor, and so this came in, and y'all were already attached, and I thought this will be really Unknown Speaker 5:21 fun. But I also really work with Unknown Speaker 5:25 boots, like you. And so the minute My agent said, hoots, Riley has a new foot, they couldn't even finish the sentence. I was like, send it now. Unknown Speaker 5:33 And we met, and then I didn't hear anything. And then I was pregnant, yeah. And so then when he, when they when they said, you know Unknown Speaker 5:43 you're doing it. Oh, wait to tell them. And Unknown Speaker 5:48 we Unknown Speaker 5:53 went to dinner. Okay, I guess, like your character, Mariah, couldn't be pregnant, trying to figure it out. Unknown Speaker 6:01 I feel like the conversations that I had with you in the beginning of the movie, like I thought that I got the movie, but also talking to you maybe Unknown Speaker 6:08 get the movie even more, yes, because just I remember us, the first thing that we shot was the opening one of the opening scenes of the movie is when you wake me up. You got me working, working, working. Unknown Speaker 6:18 And I was just like, I remember you said something like a Unknown Speaker 6:23 cycle visitor, boss. Oh, look, I have Unknown Speaker 6:25 mom brain right now, so I don't remember anything. You're the Unknown Speaker 6:31 client. You're the man. Should Unknown Speaker 6:51 I don't Unknown Speaker 7:01 better. Unknown Speaker 7:02 I love boosters, as we call around the mid story right, grappling with the idea of, well, technically, the building are criminals, but hopefully they're making business. So how did this film make you look at that? You know that moral gray area? You know Unknown Speaker 7:18 what? I think the thing that stood out for me about this film, and that attracted me, nah, hey. He was doing some weird earlier. He Unknown Speaker 7:40 was trying to sneak Unknown Speaker 7:42 in. Sorry, he Unknown Speaker 7:49 was trying Unknown Speaker 7:55 to sneak in. Weird, oh, Unknown Speaker 8:00 keep Unknown Speaker 8:01 walking. Unknown Speaker 8:03 Wow. Unknown Speaker 8:04 I Unknown Speaker 8:07 wish Unknown Speaker 8:09 this happened Unknown Speaker 8:13 me all the time. Unknown Speaker 8:20 Was Unknown Speaker 8:25 girl. He's not here. He's not here mentally. Unknown Speaker 8:33 They didn't Unknown Speaker 8:38 give her a warning. Sorry, Unknown Speaker 8:40 guys, but Unknown Speaker 8:41 let's Just say, Lisa, this Unknown Speaker 9:22 moment. It Unknown Speaker 9:26 like I was trying to get into this room Unknown Speaker 9:33 earlier. When I came in, it looked like she was, like, trying to bug the line. And then, like, somebody, somebody said, I was like, Well, you can't, I can't be here because, like, you know, so I think the thing is, Unknown Speaker 9:44 like, I remember, obviously, I'm not Unknown Speaker 9:47 from the States, right? And we didn't call Unknown Speaker 9:51 it boosting back home, but also market at school time or Unknown Speaker 9:55 at lunchtime, or whatever. Unknown Speaker 10:00 Up, we go down the market, and you're seeing high end stuff on the market, soils that literally were in the shop next Unknown Speaker 10:08 door, which Unknown Speaker 10:10 is crazy, but like, it was the thing that we could afford. It was a thing that gave us an access to a world that we didn't have. Unknown Speaker 10:17 And yeah, it's great, but it's also community. Unknown Speaker 10:20 It's also like it feels like someone's sharing something with you that Unknown Speaker 10:25 you can aspire to, and you can have a little bit Unknown Speaker 10:28 of to create your own vision of yourself, which kind of leads to power. And there's something so special as well, even though it's great Yes, about how you can take little bits of everything and you Unknown Speaker 10:40 turn it into a culture. And that is what is special about working class a marginalized community. Unknown Speaker 10:50 You take Unknown Speaker 10:52 little things and you collect them, and then you make Unknown Speaker 10:56 it into your home. Is something that's actually really inspiring. And the cost from the big Unknown Speaker 11:00 man isn't as big. They take more Unknown Speaker 11:04 than we get. Unknown Speaker 11:06 So it really Unknown Speaker 11:22 moved me was Unknown Speaker 11:24 seeing the shift from a singular focus for oneself versus the collective focus of people coming together, and the impact we hear when we're not just working for our own self. Yes, and that for me was, you know, it was Unknown Speaker 11:46 deeply moving. I remember Unknown Speaker 11:49 just it, Unknown Speaker 11:52 it had a greater impact than I even realized by seeing it with, with with an audience, yeah, the importance of that. I really love the mirroring that happens between Christie Smith and Corvette, Unknown Speaker 12:06 because there's this idea that just that, you know, Christy is bad guy, you know what I mean. And that can be true in many ways, but you also see Corvette go on this journey where, what would it be like if she had a chance to be on top, and she has to look around, and she has to go through that transition in the movie where she's looking up at this person that she's mimicking, that she wants to be like fires to have success, but at the same time, she's slowly forgetting the people around her. They're now just they're not just turning into the background or so we get to see this reality. I think it's so important that you know, no matter what, where you're standing from, integrity is something that you have to be conscious of, thinking about having and everything where you are the top Unknown Speaker 12:51 and the people around you, they're not just here to support you, but they're here to exist alongside you. So that's what I love, that Corvette finds. And that really was hitting touch me the more that I watched. You know, what really hit to me when I was watching your performance was the concept of we are conditioned as a society to idolize these people while still having a moral compass right. She is completely a morally balanced human being of who she is, but somehow we are all trapped into this vortex of you see her when she talks about her like her eyes glisten, and it's she has an identity of your own. She knows who she is, yet somehow she's like, you know, like a fly to the light. And I think it really encompasses the world we live in, because it is I find myself, especially with social media now and seeing all these kids and us, including US adults, you know, we kind of hate it Beloved. Hate it Beloved. We all live in this dimension of this duality. And I think it does capture that, because you're not just villainizing her. And I think it, I have to say, It owes to the performances as well that everyone brings it's very nuanced. It's not linear, like she is the villain. We hate her. It's I want to be her. Unknown Speaker 14:07 Well, why do I want to be her if she is this version that I hate and I'm fighting, but yet I still want to be her. And I think we can all see ourselves in those moments throughout life that is the real human experience. And I think what boots is really good is understanding society. He does social commentary about society, and he's always on point, and he's quiet man. He's not like, you know, he's on set, and he's just observing, observing, observing, and then he just plasters it on art. And I think Unknown Speaker 14:41 people will watch this movie and rewatch it and get so much more from it, because these are very fundamentally balanced women, yet still being swayed by one thing they hate, and we cannot relate to that. I think, well, we all have a sense that it doesn't have to be. Unknown Speaker 15:00 Be this way, and we've all, we all are Unknown Speaker 15:05 victims of it, but also benefit from it. I mean, we critique America, but we all benefit from being here. Also Unknown Speaker 15:16 the world is it's going to continue to spin, and we're going to continue to want to wear clothes and have nice things, and, you know, your car system, your transportation, your your options. You have, we have options. You know, it's like, I don't really like bananas. I actually prefer this. And most of the world doesn't live like that. Most of the world doesn't have options. Most of the world has one pair of shoes, you know, and so it gets really it is this kind of awareness Unknown Speaker 15:48 is very important. You spoke to the duality of it, and that is the duality, because the moment that Corvette meets Deon, who, like John Hughes, Unknown Speaker 16:02 like John Hughes. Unknown Speaker 16:06 You know the first thing happening, chickens, John Hughes, Unknown Speaker 16:13 but you know you're Unknown Speaker 16:15 on set. Can John moon come to meet John? So then giving John Hugh, which turn into John Hughes, and now I'm John Hughes. And so I have I raised chickens, and so one of my chickens is now John Unknown Speaker 16:27 Hughes. She's a gorgeous, silky, I think Unknown Speaker 16:34 she's also a bomb, like, Unknown Speaker 16:36 I think she's now becoming a bit of a bully. It's a whole Unknown Speaker 16:40 thing, you see, like, the cycle of violence for people hurt people, hurt chickens. Hurt chicken boosters. Unknown Speaker 16:46 So, Unknown Speaker 16:49 you know, copy everybody. This was Unknown Speaker 16:54 stand up. I just Unknown Speaker 16:57 like, I think it's so iconic that, like, I mean, we have a whole sequence where we're fully in China. And I thought this, this entire movie works with us, without us having to go to China. I keep saying that roosters in me feels like it's a movie that is Trojan horsey, a story about class solidarity and class struggle. And you could have kept it just here. There's enough between the velvet game between Christie Smith about, you know, the value of material goods, what options someone has given the choices in front of them, etc, etc. But he took it all the way back to like, okay, we're talking about clothes, talking about choices. Where is that coming from? Yeah? Who is making that? Because we're all the star of our own story, and we're all on one side of the thing, yeah, it goes both ways. Because the moment that I like that isn't just the underdog, the moment that she meets Dean. She's, yeah, that's good. This we gonna do for me, that's what she fools with. Unknown Speaker 17:48 Christie Unknown Speaker 17:50 says Unknown Speaker 17:51 there at that time we watch the whole forehead movie. It all falls down Unknown Speaker 17:56 glory line. And the first thing Corvette says is, that's great. Give me the machine. There's Unknown Speaker 18:03 not until honestly your character, where we actually the whole movie. She popping out the window. She said, Hey, dog this Unknown Speaker 18:11 I'm here to tell you that finally Quebec gets it. We all, we all starve Unknown Speaker 18:18 at home. We all gotta struggle. We're all the villain in somebody's world, and we all have a vision. We just trying to bring the light. And I think that awareness is what helps us. It doesn't change everything, but it can at least help us to see each other more fully. You know, that's why it's profound. When Christie says, You're just fighting yourself. Unknown Speaker 18:42 What will say, though, I do think in her heart that Zambo is a revolutionary, because I've always thought, think about it, she gets her hands on a teleporter and another thing, like, I'm gonna rob a bank or, like, whatever, or even just take these clothes and try to resell them and do whatever she says. We're going to use these quotes as a bargaining chip for labor rights and for us to unionize absolutely that. You know, I was like, Oh, this girl isn't thinking in terms of capitalism. She's actually, like, thinking in a human centric way. And like that twist is like, like, you're saying one Corvette hears about this. Her first thought is to do an exchange. Is to perform capitalism totally. And Seattle was like, I want to make sure that, like, my my family members not dying from the like, you know, the Santa Claus at center on your great point, Taylor, you know, everybody has a different vantage point from what is around them and what they know. That's why I do feel like it's such a great power. We can create art that impacts or moves away, that people think and reaches us from different vantage points. We go online, we can see somebody else's more. We can see somebody's perspective. I mean, I take it back to my space. Tom just wanted us to see somebody's face. You Unknown Speaker 19:55 might understand things differently. We didn't Unknown Speaker 19:58 foresee that was bad ways to. Unknown Speaker 20:00 Awesome Tom, you know, on Unknown Speaker 20:03 an island somewhere, probably, Unknown Speaker 20:10 who always holds up American society, and there's a lot that is showing us with this movie. But what do you think he's saying about the moment that we're living in right now? I know we said a lot of it here, but maybe a few words, what would you say? He's trying to say? I Unknown Speaker 20:25 think he's saying that borders are not real, and the thing that unites us all is class struggle and that it needs to be a global, international Unknown Speaker 20:33 movement. Yeah, sort of Unknown Speaker 20:39 revolutionary, and I think Unknown Speaker 20:43 that we can kind of as a society. I mean, it does blow my mind, because we did film this movie how long ago? Unknown Speaker 20:50 In the time, it couldn't be more exact. In his moment, it feels like he filmed it two weeks ago, and it's like this is the time to drop it, that I think it's, I mean, obviously it's a foreshadowing. I think we've all been seeing where we're heading towards, slowly but surely. I think, you know, again, I go back to, he's a person of the people. He makes movies for people, for audiences, who's just not someone who's like, bothered and flustered about what Hollywood wants. Clearly, as you watch that movie. And, you know, I think that's what I appreciate about him as a filmmaker, is is this man who has something really important to say outside of the system. And the point is to criticize the system within being in the system, it's quite meta, and Unknown Speaker 21:41 he's like but as the system, and this is what it's at in this patriarchy, and this is how it sets and this is and by the way, the fact that, I mean, I don't have to go gender specific, but most of these revolutionary characters are women, I don't know, like he's he's a father, he's a partner. He gets it, man, in a deep, cellular way of what's this world looking like. And I think that last moment in the movie, I mean, we were talking about it, and moves you. It hits you deep with turning on the news and what's going on in the world. And I think when you watch characters like this going through these journeys, it makes you believe, Damn man, my life has purpose, even if I'm in the small place, you're in a big place, like my desires, my dreams, what I look for, I can go for it, whatever that looks like, and I just gotta push. Don't let the system brainwash you, because it's it's designed for us to just be completely drawn by it. And so we are getting to a place where, like, I think, is everything that pendulum swings so far right and so far left. And now people are like, nananana. Not anymore. We're pushing back. And I think that's very motivating. We see it with the strikes on the streets. We see it with, you know, it started all with, like, in the middle of covid and Black Lives Matter and like we're just like, No, the system doesn't dictate anymore. And I think in a world that feels so bleak, this feels like a ray of sunshine that there Unknown Speaker 23:18 is a sweet demon Unknown Speaker 23:22 sun. I'm still wrapping Unknown Speaker 23:28 myself. I've been around a few of your Unknown Speaker 23:34 PhD on what the symbolism of that, you know, kind of Unknown Speaker 23:38 Lingus demon, how I read it. Unknown Speaker 23:42 I will say there, I mean to what Asa was saying, there is an irony about a film which, you know, I feel like Polyana is about class being told through Hollywood. And I feel like that irony is, like, really not lost on any of us, but I feel like that's also what makes it special, because it's not just the kind of art that boots makes. Part of my excitement about working with him is also about who he is as a person, and, you know, at his level as a director, and where he is in Hollywood, he has never shied away from like, being politically outspoken, regardless of repercussions. He was one of the first, I think that was spoken about Gaza and Palestine and the genocide, Unknown Speaker 24:25 and he has never wavered at all. And I think he did that knowing that there would be a cause and not knowing what. So I feel like that that weighs into the miracle that like he has gotten all the support, and this film has gotten all the support. And, you know, sometimes I struggle too with like artists. So I feel like are doing a lot of important storytelling with their art, but then in their personal life, can't follow that moral code, or, you know, take the same kind of risk. And I just feel like leads is like a just, he's it's not a performance. It's not at all. Yeah, they admire that. A lot of. Unknown Speaker 25:00 A hammer, and I do not work with them. I do too, because the truth is the truth. It's always be the truth, whether you acknowledge it or not. And that's how he lives his life. He's just speaking his truth. And so how can you be mad at somebody that had that know their POV and stick to it, you know, and boots, but boots is, I feel his baseline is still all with an open heart. So we have these conversations, and we could disagree, or he could, and there's still just this openness. And I wonder what that would be like. All of us have different brains and different upbringings and different perspectives and the way we see we're not supposed to see it the same. I mean, we're diverse in the way that we think and the way that we profess and what we like and what we gravitate toward, it. But what would it be like to sit with that with an open heart? Like? What would the world be like? It's like, I don't really agree, but I'm just open my heart to you, and now you open your heart to me. We could do something with that. That's confusing. Unknown Speaker 25:56 My Unknown Speaker 26:01 next question was, what were the vibes like? Was said, you could see this with the Unknown Speaker 26:06 Bible. We were always talking having some and then, honestly, it could have been about pizza, it could have been about the State of the Union. It could have been anything across the board. But we were always having dialog, and it felt really good. We were all so excited when the meeting, we were like, which I Unknown Speaker 26:23 think she gonna Unknown Speaker 26:25 be like, was she came right sit down in the middle of floor. She's like, Hey, girls, Unknown Speaker 26:32 how's it going? I'm so happy the movie. And we just would get into it. I mean, you gotta have a favorite moment or a favorite day that you remember on set fun memory, Unknown Speaker 26:48 it was kind of sorry I can't share what was shared, but you share a story, and then you share A story, and we all collapse all the time Unknown Speaker 27:02 that Unknown Speaker 27:06 but also because I was pregnant, babies pushing. I peed on myself Unknown Speaker 27:12 twice, once on set and once in the hallway, I was like, you guys were collapsed on the floor. Unknown Speaker 27:19 You don't have a black court. I do feel like this doesn't happen often, but I do feel like we was telling each Unknown Speaker 27:27 other our business on this job, Unknown Speaker 27:32 whether you're on set, whether you're in the office, wherever you are, these are my colleagues, but Unknown Speaker 27:37 then they'll come along where it's like, these are my Unknown Speaker 27:42 bitches. I were getting into by the way, you were pregnant on set, you now have your baby story. Unknown Speaker 27:59 Do you guys remember when the doctor came and made us hear the heartbeat? The Unknown Speaker 28:04 doctor came our set Unknown Speaker 28:09 happened to be a doula at midwife, and she let me hear his heartbeat all the time, and there was once when we were looking for it. So I get a little panicked, and the girls would start talking, and all of a sudden, Unknown Speaker 28:24 I'm not Unknown Speaker 28:32 being funny. Right before I was I was I was in LA, and I was like, Hey, can I come around? I want to Unknown Speaker 28:42 see Yeah, labor, I was Humpty Dumpty it was, I Unknown Speaker 28:50 was Humpty Dumpty girl. I was about to roll down that Unknown Speaker 28:56 hill. Memory of this movie is tailored that like Unknown Speaker 28:59 titty onesie Unknown Speaker 29:07 there's Unknown Speaker 29:11 so funny. Unknown Speaker 29:14 Like the idea of Boosters is tailoring that one seat walking around like rubbing your belly. It Unknown Speaker 29:20 was giving me, it was letting me, you know, get used to the idea of being, you know, more woman and more voluptuous. Oh, poor areola. How do Unknown Speaker 29:31 you feel about that time now, you know, looking back at the movie, how it's impacted, you know, the work we were doing, but also, like in your now new mind, because you do, I mean, anybody in the audience with kids, Mom, you know you're not the same person you were before the baby. You know what I mean. And so how do you feel about that time? And you know, compared to them, I'm so grateful to all of you. I feel you. You raised him in the in there, because I laughed so much, and he's so happy. Makes me proud. Unknown Speaker 30:00 Because he's so happy, he's so healthy, he's so beautiful, and it really birthing him initiated me into this life that I've always wanted for myself. And I just feel like finally living inside my life, but you guys being there with me, it was just so amazing. We just laughed so much. I mean, I think my belly, he was in there. Probably like, okay, Unknown Speaker 30:26 he's so that's how he is today. He's always in on, you know, I'm laughing, and he just starts giggling. It's just, Unknown Speaker 30:33 it's incredible. Kids do have this really incredible power. You just said something quick, and I want to pull it out, because just make sure everybody heard it is that now you're living inside your life, you know what I'm saying, like kids, really, especially when we're in our kind of industry, and look, in our kind of world, or in our kind of country, whatever, where, you know, you're working, you're working, you know, everybody's hyper functioning and trying to do it right and get it done and be the one and get the job you can, you know, then you end up just like, who am I gonna do? Just the thing. Now you're just the product. You're You're the you're not even being, you're human doing. You know what I mean? And so I know for me, that was really big. When have my son just like, because my son, he's just being so then you start feeling like, damn, I want to be like, you my son Unknown Speaker 31:22 would be like, No. Looking at this baby, and Unknown Speaker 31:38 they're, they're on an acid trip all day. Unknown Speaker 31:44 Wow, the sky. Here I am in this moment. Wow. My feet, my hands, you know, everything. His belly button is a lemon. He's like this lemon. All these amazing things of being alive is so cool. It really is Yeah, to love and to be alive, and to love people, to love people around you, and love your baby. It's just like, it's incredible. Unknown Speaker 32:10 Was there a moment, you guys, I completely agree with you. Was there a moment, you guys, where you felt like, I know for me, I'll say this because the question is about when our chemistry was working. I remember when we did that first read, if y'all remember, it was like, before we started filming the movie, and we were in there and was just like, let's just talk, you know, just do the line. This is our first session, or whatever, like that. And I could, I'm a very rhythm person. I don't care if it's comedy, I don't care if it's drama. I don't care what the material is. I'm just always hearing the voices as like, beats. You know, it's like music in my ear, and we're doing the lines. And I was like, This beat is quick. How did Unknown Speaker 32:50 you know we were going Unknown Speaker 32:55 to sound Unknown Speaker 32:57 like this? Not even, how did you know we were going to act like this? Like, how did you know you would sound like this? Because we were like, ping, it just like, now it's like ping theme. Unknown Speaker 33:06 And that's when I knew all this is boots is not just like, great writer, director, but like this casting, like, we match, yeah, that's when I saw it. Was there a moment or scene where you guys felt that well, because we didn't even do a chemistry reading beforehand. And the thing about this rehearsal in quotes and heavy, heavy clothes, is that it was really three to four hours long. I basically went through the scene two times maximum. And the best of it, what they admire about those is that he takes up like zero space as a man, which Unknown Speaker 33:41 is like we and I quote, just be like yapping and I'll just turn on. He's observing us, yeah, it's just like, with a few smile on his face. Unknown Speaker 33:50 But like, this rehearsal, it was just us like yapping, and he was just sit back and at the end of it, we were like, do we need a briefest scene more? Unknown Speaker 33:57 And he was like, no. He's Unknown Speaker 34:00 like, I think that's the rehearsal. You know, he has this quality of seeing people, Unknown Speaker 34:06 and that's not easy, and we see it obviously they're directors that have vision, and some that follow the pattern of what the industry tells them, and they're like, she's the cool girl, or that's the cool person, or she's what people are going to be. Like, thumbs up. And he just doesn't care. He's just like, who are you? What's your deal? And I felt that like when I watched all of you perform. Unknown Speaker 34:28 You know he sees you. He's not trying to impose into you. He's just letting the collaboration exist. And you see it like it's not it's I really want to highlight this. It's not a casualty that most of the performances are good. That's not a casualty. That's not oh my god, everyone's amazing, because a lot of these actors go on to other movies and they don't get the chance to get these performances. Why is that? Because you have a director who's imposing it to you, and not a director that is wanting collaborate with reach and. Unknown Speaker 35:00 That is a ginormous difference. Because, you see, I mean, who the hell would think of me as a goth, like physicist, knowledgeable, like nobody. Yeah, he's like, I see something. You're You're a fighter. And I feel that way in the inside, I feel it, but no one sees me that way. No one sees like on you like that. You know, they're like, she can really bring this layer into a halter. And that is just a blessing. It's like the most like, when you leave the set and you go home and you watch this movie, and whatever the movie does amazing, and hopefully does amazing, because you're gonna go watch it when it opens, but you're gonna pay, bring all your friends. Unknown Speaker 35:43 Like, my point is, like, you're just like, God, thank you for giving us a director that sees me and sees what is my voice wanting to say as an art, artist, as an individual, as a moral compass. And that man is like gold. And in every movie you see, you see, sorry to bother you. You see, obviously we're there is magical performances. This is a man watching you, listening to you and say, Bring it on to that point. What about your characters do you relate to the most? Or what were you zeroing in on in their story that allowed you to have empathy, compassion, bring them Unknown Speaker 36:24 to life. Unknown Speaker 36:28 I'm like, I'm ever the realist I channeled this past kind of. Transcribed by https://otter.ai