Nicole Kidman & Russell Crowe - Actors on Actors - Full Conversation

how's the corn taming being well Nicole as it turns out asking you that not only camera I've been practicing self-isolation for some three decades or more turn I'm quite good at it and I have no problems whatsoever self isolating away from the rest of the world because you know I've been getting a lot done you know without having to get on a plane and rush around and you know the way I've been describing it as it felt like I was dragging like a whole bunch of tin cans and those tailpipes behind me and then not actually stopped in one place and they've you know unfolded like a list I've been able to go I've done and done and don't you notice it's actually being really good because you've got a lot of property there it's a nice little spot yeah yeah oh yeah that's yeah but Nashville right out there [Music] but I want to jump into something that from a perspective that is really interesting for me and I'm not sure if you know the entire narrative of this I'm sure you know a lot of other right so I don't know the source material it was a book yeah big little asses all right yeah the first series was a book yeah Australia North early on mati and then and it was and then the second series she wrote sort of a novella that was never published and that's what that was the second series was based on this yours is based on a book loudest voice talk about that later it's talked about so my question was just fill me in because I'm interested in how it came together who found what who brought people together because this is kind of like you know I'm not I'm not being being silly you're used to that it's kind of like an Avengers rewrite carnot or whatever those two superhero movies do so many great actresses all coming together on the same project so it's just very interesting to me who found the piece who brought who was the catalyst and how did you all come together well a mutual friend you know was working with Reese at his time and she called me up and said I've always wanted you and risk to work together we think we found this book Reese has read it big little eyes you should read it and this was the first series so I read it overnight and then I was getting on a plane to go to Australia just by chance and I and she's an Australian novelist Leo Moriarty so I said I should just call her up and and go and meet her and see if she'll give us the rights to the book and that was how the first series happen and we met in Darlinghurst at a coffee shop and I said Leon just give us the book don't shop it around just let us have the rides and I promise you we'll make the series and that that was that right yeah well I have to be totally honest I haven't seen a second series yet but the first I really got my reference point is that is the first series and that's some extremely fine writing I mean if the book as a sort of being great as one thing but that process of being able to distill somebody else's will and then put it in you know in a form for the camera you know that in itself is calm and I was I was David he Kelly yeah yeah he wrote all of it and then jean-marc vallée was the first series and then Andrea Ronald was the second series and in the second series Leon came up with as a catalyst to get a second series going this character married with who's the mother of Perry who's my husband who dies at the end of the first series is you've seen and then so meryl streep comes in playing my mother-in-law and that's sort of my I mean then there's a number of other storylines for the second series I will I will how many films have you done with Meryl Streep three three well so he just finished a film together contracted the photo well I said you're going to work with Meryl Streep did you say that has to be a multiple picture deal I don't want very well I've had to come like maybe two conversations with ever but I just think she's so special I love what she does tell me about working with Mel well she's very similar to how we work because we've obviously worked together in the sense that she just melts in like with Meryl free you're all bad Russell once Monica what's going on anyway you were saying yeah so because we want to talk about you in a minute we want to get off me no she but she's yeah she's just very intuitive she comes she's in she's so every take is different everything is some she's just like Quicksilver and she's off the charts smart so she has notes but she's as sharp as she you would love her and having just walked with her back to back so I did big little lives where she's in the cardigan and she's sort of very this pious my mother-in-law and then we've just done a big musical together which was the complete opposite of of being little eyes where we are singing and dancing and being absolutely ridiculous and so seeing both her I just love her it was called the prom and I was with Ryan Ryan Murphy directed it we still have three more days to shoot so we'll use the prior to the of the first series of bigger the lights because it seemed to permeate everywhere all at the same time I was I was surprised at the way in which it reached beyond what was expected because when it first the first episode Ned it was it sort of it was good in terms of the way you know the audience is the worship but it wasn't a huge ratings or anything and then it just started to snowball and that's what I believed in it when I saw it I was like gosh I think we're sitting on something really really good here but you know how you can make something really good and it just disappears into the ether so I always have that thing like well you'll see we'll see I'm proud of it we'll see what happens with it so then it just started to connect when you do something like that which you know has its own arc and it's supposed to sort of finish how is it then what is the process how did the conversations begin when you say I that works for will rain yeah how do we reef name for story sir is that Bruna then talking with the original writer as you said she sort of wrote this novella and then who broke it down again in terror episodes after that I mean it was very much and I waste and I going we want to do this again Laura Zoe Shailene going I can't bear to walk away from this because we all we get on we just have we have a great time together so the idea of walking away and not exploring what the next there was so it was so dense the first novel so we didn't even get into a lot of the characters and their backstories and so we thought well to allow that to unfold over second series would be amazing how it happens is Leon and I have become very very good friends and so I sat with her in my apartment she was at my birthday party house like Leon you got to write some more come up with some things we then had to talk to David and we had to and it took a lot of just sitting on Miranda's I mean Leon and I and pare sorry who's my producing partner and Bruno was sitting around and Reiss calling on what's happening what's happening so it was more just the whole the group of us going can we make this Ruben and I was like pushing a rock up a mountain and then it was worked we just suddenly ministered moving along and then wrote the scripts for the second series David wrote all of them huh why but it's a director you said for the second series yeah Jon that valet was directing sharp objects with Amy and so it was Annie was exhausted I mean it's a huge feat to direct those seven hours because you on ladders voice had Kapil directors for four yeah and so but I've only ever done limited series with one director so I don't know the idea of a different director coming in and directing a couple of episodes and then another director and I just finished another series that I'm doing and that was Susana BIA and directed all six hours so I don't I don't see how anybody can go into a series like that and be comfortable with directors coming and going it's a to me you know it's actually a kink in the parabola that's not necessarily great I mean especially if you're doing a single merit with a beginning middle and end you know to sort of pumpkin and out different perspectives and stuff it's it's funny because it can cross over work that you've done earlier because the next person come in isn't seeing things at the same observation and coming from a film perspective where then you get on the track one person and that's the person that is you know that you're doing the journey with you know to then be in a television situation and that long 7 hour schedule that you're going to shoot over many months should be coming in you're changing perspectives I didn't necessarily think it was the greatest way to do it and I look at something like this a big little eyes as I watch it I see the consistency you know I mean and I think it's it's just a 7 hour movie you know it doesn't it's not serialized TV in the way that is traditional where directors coming and going is fine you know this is sort of stuff where you begin and you're telling a story of a certain arc of a certain you know length are it's so you know it's fun I enjoyed working with all the individual directors but I I can see why a single director is still probably you know the preferred choice from my perspective mine too looking for perhaps seeking refuge problem what's that supposed to be how many other women and did he go - if there's one there are others so playing roger ailes that the idea of constructing that character because usually you're working with the director constructing it together and you know you are you going to shoot that falls on you primarily then you know a lot of that you know has to be seeded at the beginning and then you have to make sure that the directors to come are in that same loop you know and you don't get you know I'm more experienced was not spending any other time with him apart from when they basically arrived on the set you know so and there was no combined prep time at the beginning where everybody was talking about the same thing I had a funny little mama with Stephen Frears it was a wonderful fella you know and exceptional director he came in to direct Episode six and he was asking for a certain thing to happen and I questioned him I said Stephen that that can't happen now because in Episode two such-and-such went on and episode 4 blah blah five we confirmed that so now we're here this is like the six debated the story thinks other thing that you're asking for can't happen and Stephen in his wonderfully dry English turn scible Russell you have me at a disadvantage you see because you have read the script anyway so it was great to work with my attire I'd love to do an actual movie with Stevie was wonderful yeah approaching the second series we're going back to you know everything to talk about you haven't talked or individual character and that journey cuz that was pretty harsh to watch babe that was harsh you know as some I mean that the the writing was stunning in that show and the way everybody approach their characters the community formed just that I really liked it will put that up into you know but what you individually did you know going through the process of playing that woman talk to me a little bit about where you begin where you even begin with understanding her well it's sort of it was working very very intimately with Alex and then trying to have the love of the relationship is ultimately their relationship with based in this laughs it was a toxic love but a love and I think once that then we created a whole relationship we delved in deeply to have that relationship II and the push-pull of it and the need to stay the fear of leaving the desire to not be alone the eighty percent is good and 20 percent is bad and I think that so you know and then that grows to maybe seventy percent is good and thirty percent is bad but I can still and then the psychology of saying well I can take a lot of this because my children are having a good life and all of the complications those emotions are so important and the sexuality between them which is at times good and loving and tender and then things go awry and then suddenly does explosion so this and it's and it starts to snowball out of control but it doesn't it didn't start that way you know and that was really important to me because so much of the relationships in the domestic yes a where you don't see a lot of the a good times you know and so it was about focusing on what are the good times because that's what's keeping me here and and the second series deals very much with the aftermath of when someone leaves who you still love and they're gone and through in this capacity its death but in other in other relationships its they've just they've left and they're not coming back so therefore it can exist almost in this place that's quite row Scotland and suddenly it can be like oh that was the greatest part of my life cuz you're forgetting all of the bad and that that was very much where I started with with her you know and and it was wonderful because also there's a lot of self blame because it's not like I would just cower in the corner I would fight back and that was one of the first things Elena I said to me when when she when she said I want you to cry Celeste she goes because so it strikes back and when you fight back in a relationship there's an enormous amount of I'm culpable I'm to blame I pushed him I I scream I created as I was slow I'm responsible for so many things that have happened and it's not all it's not all I can't he's not the monster you know so there's it's it's so complicated and to have the chance to play that it with all its complication was was I would just amazed that they let me do it that way because a lot of times it gets done it gets sort of glossed over you know and that we watch films that we love and you and your loving your film but you feel the director is now closing the narrative down this like once into you know you can feel that black screen with the end coming up to and you just want to stay that you know hmm is that what meaning is it that kind of feeling you know we seem to have gone into this period of sequels possibly be one of the Rings that maybe it even predates all the way back to Star Wars or whatever you know but people are looking for a long and narrative you know and is that what things like big.little the feeling is like once they you know you can get in and give people a much more complex world because you've got more time you can play in hard later you know but you sort of it to me there's an engine and big little lies the narrative is pumping it's not a language it's like informations coming very quickly you know and so it's still in that tradition of a movie way you've got it feels like a define my time the story needs to be told - isn't bigger it's deeper and stuff what do you think so joes are having success at the moment as opposed to perhaps their cinematic cousins which you know you still have temple films but it feels like a lot about drama and stuff is coming through right now hmm yeah I mean did you find having that the time to explore on the character and still have really really strong narrative been having that time was just glorious did you like that I mean I I love that because you got to be able to play especially if you're doing a thing like that with Roger Ennis and that's that particular journey you know she's being able to show him a bewdley intend and why people like working with him and all these other complications instead of just this one thing which might say this man is a monster you know thing of being able to show a wider picture now ultimately his behaviors and everything are and ridiculous and he gets his comeuppance but showing how he created the energy around him that allowed him to get away with whatever he wanted to do you know he's very smart you know and he saw incredible commercial opportunity and was able to you know describe what that is achievable and you know when you see that success I mean the amount of money that Fox News began to generate you know it and the power began to have over people because it had a certain perspective and was you know being contrary to what else was going on and you know they were writing their own rules as they went you know I can understand how that would be in writing journey to be part of because it would feel like you're breaking new ground etc etc you know but it's also interesting to put that big story together like that in that way so you can stand back and understand you know the negative impacts and how it may have even shifted society and where we are right now and the conversations that we're having right now is because of the impact of that one new service but I loved that you could see his really the relationship we have with his wife with UNC Anna Rio which was I mean fantastic so yeah and you'd saw or your and I mean and I want to say this you're an unbelievably generous act how so and there's very few men and I will then this is so good for you to hear and for the world to hear that can get that can love a woman on screen and we've seen you do it in things like gladiator but when you love you love and you felt that love on-screen for her and that so Horton and I don't I always say this about you I say Russell can love so he can love a woman on screen where he will go to the ends of the earth for that woman and that's really powerful but it's true and I love seeing you do that and you saw it in this capacity in such a different way but it was so important to see it because you saw roger ailes capable of being this husband and loving his child and you know though that that part of him that you would never get to see if you didn't I mean if you didn't have that amount of time to explore him that wasn't really like you know you having Siena play that role and the way you did it and the way she stood a step you can quit you know I tour de force performance it comes together so gently it's beautifully you know but everybody in that in that class you know Annabelle Rose you know oh yeah Howard Dean and I own me I mean you know it was just for me to work with her I'm calm I work with her I think she was like 16 or 17 you know it was TV thing brides of Christ and I came in and did some wacky Catholic boy freaking out about you know this and that and I think I had to in the helmet air I was ejaculating and losing my virginity it was just one of those gigs you know me yeah but you know and we've been friends for so long and then fun to actually you know be on the job together it was it was a really cool moment it was it it was the same as being on the with you it's like it's unbelievable if you think back to where we all started from and our aspiration it's inconceivable Nicole you may hang in August it's inconceivable that we've had the careers that we've had what the happened with that me is diamine and it's you and like this whole generation of people that you know we're kind of it but directly in touch or vaguely connected it's like it's it is stunning what's that all still friends what's more we are ya know like so for that too but I've got something I'm so proud of his ass enough in our friendship to when when this came along I was like I so want to do this because I love you you know I love you and so and I've known you now for decades but just to be but I've also worked with you and watched you as an actor and you're one of the great great great actors that's ever existed and everyone would say that that's true so don't get too settled there in that old recipe maybe it's technically I don't think anybody's ever gonna eat up like you know in television the audience they want you to be their friend their mother and their lover all at the same time you've got to give all of that I'm well I'm trying to get back to first road to come back where I would love to come and shoot there I just finished a show the undoing and I finished the problem so I've just been doing nothing right now but doing a lot of thinking I broke my ankle which is subsequently healed because I've been able to just lie around we're on a gig the just finished in time before the lockdown so right with three more days three but I finished you are one of the most fine league how actors that I've ever had the pleasure of working with but I've known that what you Pierre Lee instinctively in our conversations intuitively over time I've known that in you in the work I see you do and what is incredible to me is that you have been quite prolific you work continuously but you always bring the just new shade it's just like what what is in the water in Kentucky all see what a dick sorry I should have thought about that gag before I did it yes what's in the water in Tennessee or what was in water on the North Shore of Sydney when you were growing up its Kristen how do you approach things so freshly I mean as you know I feel things so I feel everything and I so I come through life with and you've known me know because so long and many many things have happened in my life but I feel all of them I go through I never avoid them so that gives me this this well of emotion to draw on I also read voraciously and somehow since I was a little girl I've absorbed emotions and feelings and people and ideas and I do still have that insatiable appetite for look for people and from what I read somewhere once that actors should read and writers should travel right really yeah yeah is that think the act of reading is that sort of internal journey you've gotta fill yourself up with that information you know people asked how I prepare for stuff and it's like start reading it what I'm supposed to be or the time whatever you know all the other stuff you know he laughs he smiles he cries he vomits whatever that's what that's the worst of the particular instruction the rest of it has to be you know from this yeah are you reading it in particular the month I'm reading American history right now called these truths which is a fantastic book but it was recommended to me by actually by journalists who then said that Adam McKay was reading it and he was reading and I was like okay I better read it so I'm into that but that is that is long and slow but incredible and then I'm reading I read untamed which is definitely really powerful book so yeah I literally have 20 books I don't read on a Kindle I read a book why we hate but because I don't like it disturbs my eyes and I'm particularly read at night so yeah 20 books going right now I remember when you were preparing for Roger Ailes you were taught you were compiling all the information about him how did you do that yeah well that's the funny little thing because you do tend to just take advantage of situations that come up if you were in New York for Hugh's birthday party right yeah yeah yes yeah yeah go that gave me the opportunity to have a very long complication with the bunkers husband Wow right he has a very direct relationship with Roger over 18 of their presidential campaign phone calls every Sunday so it gave me that contemporary last chapter inside that the book could not give me and that newspaper reports couldn't give me because Roger had exploded into this thing which was just about his misdeeds and you know all of his reputation beforehand had been blown up so then knowing what he did after that so it's a funny nobody else was talking to him like you had the book you read the book obviously and you had that but then you weren't you there was up people you met within you were because I remember when you were delving you know and I just know the research but I'm always amazed it that's the thing about that book dug every Owens book it's so dead it's so bolted in terms of the three sure to research it detail and all that stuff so he gave me but at a certain point you know it's like a singular perspective it's still you know functionally has a bias so now I've got to try and find the other side of the story you know I also talked to Wendy Murdoch at that party that night as well but you already yes but I hadn't seen a very long time probably since your marriage actually and yeah what I was gonna say is just when you start looking at stuff when you're about to play a character do you find that things just become they come to you you know if you've turned your mind to a particular okay like that subjective you know that you delved into with that character that domestic violence and why people stay in it you know when they know it's destructive and everything it's once you've opened yourself to just things start arriving in front of you or that you notice more clearly or something which help you with that journey that you're on at that particular time do you find that as an activist at all you know not necessarily all gnosis but there's a thing with confidence where the information you need somehow seems to so I'm like yeah and then I'll find one thing that can kind of lay that will propel me because a lot of my what I when I start I'm like I'm almost like a donkey who is being pulled cuz I'm like and then and then I release but I can like be digging in right up into the day before even and that terrible feeling and I find that I I'd literally peed on cold up and said I am not the right person for this and you're gonna let me yeah I don't know how but once something happens then it just flows and once it's flowing it's all it's almost like yeah it's like I just have to get out of the way my brain actually has to get out of the way my brain can get too analytical and that's not how I work is he I was doing and sort of molded and then I just have to release because a lot of my a lot of what I try to do is just exist in the moment and have take care of the narrative beforehand so that and then suddenly things will explode and appear that I didn't even expect because human behavior is so surprising and I'm always interested in the surprises coincident get at the fight was a UMAX was it seen stuff about dad and he was picking on Ziggy so what - the three of you attacked him you ganged up on him you can't do that violence is not the answer tell me about the prom right the experience of making it because it's just as an aside in my experience when the project that you're on has a lot of music involved yes it's more fun everything's more fun if like a story involves music or its musical and there's songs to be sung or whatever it's just the you know the regular energy of a film is supercharged or something - yeah and I hadn't really done I mean this was a comedy as well so I haven't done a car made for so long and to watch Meryl Streep and James Corden do their thing together and it was just say and watch Ronnie and do I mean this is the man that created Glee come in and go and sort of almost put sparkle into the room it was like he would blow and they would be it was like glitter would just through and we would dance and sing I mean I was terrifying Fossey dancing so Fosse Dancing's very not not my dance that I'm was educated or trained in so I was like I'm so out of my comfort zone but do you like would you love to do another musical oh yeah I'd love to you know yeah yeah that'd be just their energies it's my two greatest loves combined did you grow up singing or something you're identified that you want learn about it was just a natural thing for you no no I I'm not a singer I will act through my song you're a singer I'm noticing I'm I was seeing as a character but I'm never gonna get up and sing that's just not my my natural expression so I was seen but as soon as I can be in character I can sing but I have to find the character oh yeah I trained for Moulin Rouge I trained that I mean bats trained us and had us working and also he gave me confidence because I was saying to Beth I can't do this and bass would say yes she can through the whole film he would say yes absolutely Rob your vocals cannot feel superb when when are we gonna do a play together that would be interesting what do you want to do there's Afraid of Virginia Woolf yes yes I want to do a play with you you know I want to do a play with you that would be fun wasn't terrifying that come on please I want to do another film that I would love to be onstage with you every night we should definitely find something we can have fun with that we don't want to you know be doing something that has some no that's the end or whatever we were gonna be enjoying fun what was that play that you did in England about Oh see it and I'm so successful what was that thing 51 in my store yes I did I was there in the first year your first week yeah yeah talk yeah and we were backstage working out tom was there huh and then did we glow the eye yeah yeah yeah everyone we got the idea right after photograph 51 we don't go to show needs yeah because that was across the road yeah that was very complex but which one yes it was you would tough on me you're always tough but that wasn't you to me that wasn't you that was like oh there was just aspects of that player I thought you know but you shifted you went and didn't on Broadway is that too right there's what did that go to New York no it's an enormous amount of work and and I just you know I was in every every I mean that that play I was onstage beginning to end and it was yeah a lot and and my kids were just like please mama please don't and they were little and and at some point your when your trial says no who do you know that that's there's a point where you go okay I get it because the one thing with the theater and my my children are a little older now I think that be better with because they just stop later but um but to not be there for bedtime is really tough when they're little so I was like I don't want and that's choices we're both made choices as a parent right the kids have to see me on film says you know and I'd be up good morning before they woke up and I'd be at home from what they got to bed the only time I could see them was on and I was so shattered we could just put in that it was like you know all they ever saw of me was you know snoring somewhere in a bed you know so it yeah it's you know when I'm talking about on the big sort of shooting of jobs you know I came you know the hours can get crazy you know no it's just not a place to have neither of us dude we've always talked about that it's like it took me so long to get to the place of being able to go okay it's okay to say no and choose my family and that's okay because I think as a young actor it's like I'm so grateful to have a job and then to go actually this doesn't work for my family and the family is is really taking the front seed in it's a priority and and the strangest things happened when I started to do that in the sense of the work that came to me was still really really great great work and yes I I missed out on many things that went on them with great projects but gosh what I got in return was colder yeah and that's I mean we live over there in Australia I live in the state so it's even harder for you but the idea of making separation anxiety there is an awful poor things over a lot of life but in a funny way you know I've discussed it with them it's like they understand that there's an element to the job which is like a fundamental importance to me you know I try to limit it I try to have no engineer at throw in the same place but then there's just periods of time where you said we can't but they're very resilient my young fellows you know I've had to put up with that since they were born and it it does put this sort of energy open when we are together that there's just you know we just really appreciate it we're really grateful for it and for being with each other hmm and that were you there's nothing more fun than that absolute mess that we're all with same house together and then we're all doing this then you know about dad's breakfast and you know planning with yeah yeah I love that side of you and people don't see that side of you so I like when you talk I'm saying the key here I have a contract so sue us where's the due process it's my word over theirs and they're all liars all of there is no proof we have tapes so how long were you awake as you went and made it from your film coming out which looks actually terrible oh yeah I'm not sure see I've played lots of different bad guys but I don't think I've ever played a character and I'd have to think about a little bit but who's completely devoid of humanity who has no access to any level of charm or empathy and it's just it's like a solid brick wall and I'm watching it myself going that's a little uncomfortable yes if that's some that's gonna come out on the 1st of July that's what they're they're just gonna see how many cinemas are open on the 1st of July and habitat it's made by a fella called Derek it's um he did a movie recently with Jim Gaffigan oh my god my mind's blanking on the name of the ad title Americans something around but it was really really really good Gaskins performance was fantastic it was a young actor in that I got called Rob Jones I think his name is this performance is so sharp it's fantastic anyway so based on that film you know I work with Derek and we shot in New Orleans and there was you know the floods and what have you and it was sobbing shoot in that regard but it was so organized and so calm you know and it's so we when you when I watch the movie and see how terrifying the situations are and the character is but my memory of that film is everybody crews and everybody getting on so easy an out of the sunshine you know once the floods died down everything was fine you know and it it's so probably too much to do that so I saw you in New York when we were there any shock and yeah yeah I was on my way to make it yeah yeah and then since then I did another one as well called the Georgetown project which is a horror film so just fun I've never done like an absolute horror film for you know you have but yeah so I thought I'd try that and in that one I play a well I play an actor actually plays a prick in a movie and things go slightly awry shall we say story or you can't do enough right yeah I have to get back the other that's a little bit of an exploration into the darkness over the last couple of years and now I'll be going somewhere else yeah so today what are you doing what's your plan today no it's nighttime here we're moving into nighttime I'm in agarthan have some dinner with my kids yeah he's actually doing recording what are you doing now I've got to go and do this is the way we're set up here I've got I can do abig in it I have a studio so yes I'm going to undo some ADR for a project but also as soon as I'm finished that I've got what about 45 square metres of topsoil I've got a spread and some fertilizer I'm gonna put out I've got a new tractor this little V X it has a ripper on the backs just a tiny little tractor but it's very efficient so I got lots of good jobs to do today after I finish them you know come out in the sunshine we're going with you you know I love that yeah woman see it in the front paddock day no no no they've moved nothing further over past those trees to spell this paddock my highness oh well we've got the time we got about a three week period oh we've got Tom I'm just gonna freshen it up a little bit you know get in there and rip it up a little bit and put some seed in and blah blah blah and just bring it back - laughs it's been it's a what is it a petition for assignment of the guardian of the person persons it's plural in this case it'll be filed in the Monterey County Superior Court tomorrow morning we need to do what's best for the boys working courtroom scenes can be quite difficult times because and a day on the prosecutor then you spent a day on the fence meant a day on but just been a day of judge and the whole time you're doing it you know you know some of my courtroom experiences but then shooting a courtroom with Ridley Scott for example he was able to make everybody play at the same time and still and keep electricity how did it shooting at the bottom scenes approached in the series second series of little lives yeah we did it well we would shoot we would do the whole scene all the way through and some of them are eight no I'm innocent so it was like having Meryl and and all the other end doesn't even have corner we had ever had we had struggling great actors and it was just like doing theatre I mean we did it I remember at one point I went out and there was fifty people around monitor and I thought wow this is this is did but I stay in character pretty much through the whole and shut it for a week and there was gone there was eat they were though there was three we didn't really big ones and you know when you learn that I made sure I had full of everything lunch particularly the legal jargon so that by the time I came through it was able of just none of I was never never watching for a word or worried about that it was just like was it choreographed with the cameras Kim mmm many cameras were working we would shoot and they we did so much of it was just so handheld and just he would operate the camera and we would go in and go out you never quite knew where the cameras going to be so it was just always nothing and then we shot we did come in for close-ups but a lot of it was we didn't know where it was gonna be which I love because it makes everybody just focus and laser shot and then yes creates an electricity to create the original exists they can't either there is in there and working opposite Marilyn Monroe and I were not hanging out or talking we were very separate we were very much you know you know in now characters and in our place and we didn't we didn't learn so that was how we got through it and it was it was great to do because the writing is rich and the consi because we're women were related so it's a mother and and the wife of this of this man and the grief that they share and then the they're fighting over the children and and that already is a fantastic scenario to start with and then there was Larry upon layer of warmer and I mean it's it's so so complicated those things beautifully the tapestry the rich tapestry of those things is like when you don't mean to them it's just like a labyrinth but but the primary source is it's a it's a grieving wife and grieving mother so you live in Nashville Tennessee I - it's just started to rain here tell me when was the last time you wore a cowboy hat well no I haven't won a cowboy hat for a while when was the last time you wrote a paper boss yeah week ago we might because that's the thing I miss I miss running and I miss riding but my ankle when it healed it was like okay can I ride again can I run again cool I'm on was the last time you sang a country-and-western so you don't say country-and-western it's kinda nice just last time you sang it country's on it today I thought so I had to learn to play a facilities like the court so elegant and flexible as like what a woman yeah what a songwriter what a talent and what a hot tub yeah yes [Music] you

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Length: 55min 54sec (3354 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 01 2020