Timothée Chalamet & Daniel Kaluuya | EE Rising Star Q&A

welcome to this BAFTA II rising star panel I'd love to welcome Daniel Kuya and Timothy shower [Applause] we're gonna take lots of caffeine needed this week we're gonna start off with just I don't think anyone needs a reminder but let's take a quick look at trailers from get out and call me by your name did he know I'm black should they be my wanna you know mom and dad my black boyfriend will be coming up this weekend I just don't want you to be shocked but he's a Blackman I never see you like this before brother meet family take a road trip no come back all bougie bear come back get your damn pants up to your damn stomach so you guys coming up from the city yeah we're just heading up for the weekend can I see your license please he wasn't driving I didn't ask who was driving I asked to see his ID call me Dean and hungry my man so how long has this been going on this thing we hired Georgina and Walter to help care for my parents when they died I couldn't bear to let him go [Music] do you smoke in front of my daughter I'm gonna quit she'd take care of that for you how hypnosis I'm good actually I'm gonna be so look I go do it my research apparently the whole bunch of brothers been missing in this suburb that's cool well hi you're not scared of this man could see another brother run here Chris was just telling me how he felt much more comfortable with my being here yeah sorry man roast keys just give the keys rose sink to the floor [Music] just tell me why people are getting nervous I can show you around that'd be great thank you [Music] so what do you do around here read books transcribe music swim at the river go out at night sounds fun alright later in Tukwila that underscores just watch this is how i say goodbye to us and the time comes later meanwhile we'll have to put up with him for six long weeks muscles are firm not a straight body in these statues they're all curved sometimes impossibly curved and so no sealant hence they're ageless ambiguity as if they're daring you to desire them Oh Josie without my eyes is there anything you don't know by the time I only knew how little I know about the things that matter yeah [Music] what things that matter you know what thanks I'm saying what I think you're saying shouldn't have said anything just pretend you never did [Music] call me by your name and I'll call you back [Music] I just want to say what a year for both of you to master a rising star Nations two BAFTA Best Actor nominations and two nominations for that award other alter emoni it's not as important as just want to start off right at the beginning though kind of it seems like that perhaps this is a breakout year for both of you but there's been a lot of hard work for many years along the way did acting find you or did you seek it out you kind of found me yeah I was being a can you swear let me swear is that we love to sweat free space yeah that was a [ __ ] as far as the [ __ ] at school so then it kind of a teacher told my mum like you should get out of your system and then and then I did right in as a kid so it was kind of like just I just did stuff and I was like come in I might opportunity and it shares to do improv and then I did that and I was at all why like this and then I saw people making money I was that what oh cool let's try this and then I just fed him fell in love a bit so it kind of was just really natural yeah as I guess same for me in some ways my my mom had had been an actress and I had a grandfather who's a screenwriter so I had done it a little bit growing up but what really was the impetus for me was getting to a performing arts high school in New York called LaGuardia and I just remember being 13 on the first day of drama class really falling in love with it and seeing how much fun it was and you know more seriously you took it the better you got at it Italia I guess with a lot of the ordinance here growing up here we am would have seen you on skins and also that was a training ground ring huh I know Bing is black mirror with skins a training I'm not only as an actor but also for you is a writer yeah what kind of what how did skins come about um I just kind of allow either my agent was funny so funny dude ha ha there were dodgy and then so I was I'd do my own thing and then I and I just started writing plays in an acting and directing that heat in might fit a company and HAP Sofia which it doesn't really exist anymore and then like and then skins were looking for young writers and so I got skins it was me dev and kya or at the same open audition in Holloway we was all there and then they found us just like we did that and I joined as a riot it was just that kind of yeah we just do it it was like people I went to the open audition were already doing it extracurricular like doing extracurricular activity so that went into it so no one was really trying to get like because it was an e4 show like II for those nights she showed friends and scrubs like we want so we just did what we wanted and then it just became a became a thing on it what was your kind of first very first break into the world of acting uh you know there's two that I keep in my head one was a commercial I did when I was 10 years old for Disney or Disneyland I guess I went down to Florida to the theme park and it's funny they had three kids cats there's like an American version and I had to do the French Canadian version so how's my first dialect work they had me memorize had to say what an awesome vacation but with a Canadian accent French and the other one as it is for a lot of actors in New York the mothership it's a long order that was like my first like real acting gig and I got my throat slit and then Anthony Anderson comes up to my body and he's like that's a dead body fast corpse first course forgetting obviously to get out and call me by your name both astonishing films but both essentially small Indies when they started out let's start with kind of call me by your name how did you come on for to the project and how long was it before kind of even got to that stage of making it yeah while I was 17 years old I met with Luca Guadagnino for the first time that's the director of the film and and that was really by lucky the universe I mean I didn't have the acting credits really yet to justify that kind of meeting but my agent Brian sward Sturm represented Tilda Swinton who's the lead of a lot of Lucas other movies so when this project came around I could kind of I was presented for a meeting with him as someone that could maybe play this role and Luca historically doesn't like to audition his actors so he said you're attached but it felt like you know hopefully this comes together but that summer it didn't the summer after it didn't this summer after that it didn't - so I thought you know I don't know if this ever gonna happen but then when I was 20 years old and like the span of months it really rapidly came together and and I was thankful it took like that amount of time I think if I did it when I was 17 or 18 well I don't know if I could've done it 17 ever been we gonna do it so - yeah but like you know doing it later just having a couple more years of experience being able to be a little bit more calm like Daniel I didn't interview a couple months ago I don't like very proud to be up here right now I'm not like bouncing all over the place for the first time we did it together I was like tense though mr. Spock interviews always before kind of both of these films had binos get out had been released but I don't think call you by your name had been released at that point playing elio he is kind of a Renaissance teenager no way what was your research process in Tim did you read the book and also kind of you don't remember the 80 he's both variants there being a teenager in the 80s it's so nuanced in particular were you know captured so well well how did you go back yeah like you said it's the the book the book becomes like a Bible of sorts and for those who didn't read the book it's fiercely from the point of view of Elio so there's just so much to pull from and there's there's a lot of background information and then as you you know point it out to there's a lot of piano playing and I have to learn Italian for that too so there was a you know about a month and a half two months of a background research going into it and um then when it comes time to do it you just try to let that all go and do the best job you can get out um Jordan Peele script when it first came to you kind of what was it like on paper in terms of trying to make it John Riis Pacific it's not I would say it's like magical realism with a bit of horror with a thriller and exploration and race relations develop all come out at you on the page straight away or you like I don't know why sure what this is no it did it did it was all there like it's just for me I kind of read scripts and go that does do I feel like the writer knows it I mean and that's my thing is like you kind of don't really need to know the details because do they know the world does it speak to because I have got like and I've got good friends around you know a good [ __ ] detector it's like when I hear films so like now that doesn't make sense that doesn't make sense it doesn't make sense so I always see scripts from their angle God does it make sense and if it makes sense that means they've done the work so um so I kind of felt that and then it just spoke to me because it spoke to me because I've been a black man at that pop at that party so it's um yeah it was just and there was elements that was surreal but because he knew the world it didn't it didn't mouth Joe mean is like it's grounded but is it just otherworldly things like brain surgeries and stuff like that so it was a you know I knew he did the work and it just it just tapped into something and it was like unapologetic which is I find really exciting were you kind of was was there ever a hesitation of taking on the role or did you from reading it going I know this is the person I want to play Chris I want to do this role or was the kind of a level of nervousness kind of jumping into it I knew Jordan was gonna get in trouble like I was I only get in trouble I like Trouble Man [Laughter] at least I'm gonna go down doing something I believe in if it goes wrong because anything can go wrong good and so it's just about stuff that if I believe in it then I go I can stand by that Jenna sayin and then go because that's the script that could go wrong in the wrong hands I mean and so there was just that so I read it I remembered it but and then but every moments had doubts I'm like when I really went in or when I go I've read it again and I got am I crazy like when I don't think about the storyline or try to explain it to someone go but let's get out of the house before we start rehearsing and he knows that hi you know it's alright I like you I like you guys don't like it so it was a lot of a lot of a lot I think that's normal I think anything that you're because I'm putting my face so it seems like coming like you're putting your you put yours put yourself out there so you have to be doubly sure about but they're usually the first decision is the right one of them just the world comes in compromise you afterwards fascinating when you said that Jordan really wanted to cast you but the only thing he was nervous about was that you weren't American and that yeah so it was that there was a lot of that kind of like because I think in America they don't really know about stuff that happens outside of the [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] experience so I think a lot people England though so then like I said then he just asked me a couple questions I was like yeah I know I know what's happening uniquely placed in that way kind of you're born and raised in London born and raised in New York from these cities that there's no nowhere like either other cities in the world kind of we're surrounded by culture and diversity and you meet with people on a daily basis that are not from your world in a way and do you think that kind of shapes both of you isn't as acted having you know has it made it easier because you've been able to connect from kind of birth with people from all backgrounds who me is I you just have to adopt different perspectives like my neck door neighbor was my next-door neighbors were turkish mixed ones were Irish like that were like whatever like think eed or something they'll give you presents and so you have to adopt you have to understand you just have to see the world differently I was brought up to see that like the way I live my life isn't the way everyone else lives their lives so you can and when you see characters and you're able to take on other perspectives and empathize when it's not black and white it's always a great assume that's what London's kind of taught me yeah I feel the same way to me I think about it context a family and and my mom is a third generation your cover my dad was French and he moved there as I was growing up and I've always felt like tremendous ambiguity in the self identity apartment which is maybe not agree for mental health but as far as like acting goes it's kind of great because I don't really know what I'm stretching from when I do rolls its I don't when I wash myself in things I don't see the difference is because I don't really know what's going on here so has the last year in a way surprised to have your lives changed dramatically in the kind of the last 12 months with the success of these two films yes I'm yeah like when I'm really grateful for was calling my name and I can I don't I'd be Cruces is the experience on get out cuz I remember being in New York when get out came out and it really it was like an explosion like everyone was so excited to see in the posters were everywhere and big great thing is like I haven't had the total destabilizing experience I think you can read an interview sometimes other people where it's really like an overnight switch or something and what's amazing is like when I see people or people stop in the street or I've seen you a couple times that's it's always it's it hasn't been oh you're in that show you're in that movie it's oh you're in calling me by our name which is a book that really means the world to me so that's I mean you dream about that as an art it's really like that's that's been really nice for me to experience because I have seen people I have admired in interviews maybe not be so comfortable with that but I'm like I enjoyed it any choice is like you know but they were the book or they like the movie have you seen them she's in London the last time it's only you can come back to win in the first time ever get out no I just yeah you can go home you can go I can go home like cuz I went back to the estate so I was like yeah okay my other what I mean and then I'd you just get I just I always hide in it I go like I never I just don't really want to engage in it I just I like and then so like now I think is probably going mad in their lane and I'm here so it's great so you kind of you kind of because I don't know how my life's changed because it hasn't it's gone up a notch it keeps on going up a notch and you don't know what is the new new normal now you know and like this aliens were here this is like this has been the great thing about having a friendship with Daniel as all these stops we've been doing I don't feel like I relate to any few people in the room but I can always lock eyes at Daniel you've obviously that you both made some really interesting very clever choices to be fair in the films we've done you know with Lady Bird and call you by your no Black Panther get out right Panther yeah [Applause] are you nervous about kind of what you're gonna accept and what you're gonna do next is there a level now of expectation that Wow well there's it get it get out universe and claim our name universe refusing and nobody like that no I mean mmm yes or no I mean again this feels like ah you know I I'm very young and yet there's been a lot of auditions that our nose meetings that our nose and projects you're a part of they get made but aren't necessarily well-received so this feels like appreciation time and just maybe two weeks left of having this nice kind of moment so what comes from there will be great I don't know I find the one thing I keep in my mind is like hey you know have this you know respect the respect the reception if that makes any sense and you know you you have to try and be in the pedigree of Lady Bird or calling my name or get out you can't you know you can't solve it out Daniel do you think you'll go back to writing that's what I've been doing that's what I'm trying to do and get out she's got mad low yeah no that's what I'm writing a TV showing a film so I've been doing that more than acting that's what's quite surreal for me it's kind of like like all this is I just made a couple decisions although yeah I did I do that and then into a wall and because I always just kind of was like oh man like I just felt this urge to like to write and I got loads of ideas that I want to like make and you just have to put the hours in because you read them and it got it's just [ __ ] like you're like I need to get you just have to put it there's no shortcut you have to put yeah I mean you don't want this you've got you want a long cut the long cut is always more interesting so you have to just do that work so yeah like that's that's kind of where my my head where I'm where I'm heading in India and the thing you're writing is are apart for a young skinny now you got bong [ __ ] okay we've got time for a couple of questions in the audience so if you can wait for a microphone can you hear me okay cool hi my name is Gemma and I have a question for Timothy um so throughout call by your name you do all these like mannerisms like when you know Oliver gives you the note like grow up meet me at midnight it up like twirl kind of thing all the love like slides that you do inside I was wondering like how you went about developing like Ellie O's like mannerisms like the physicality of it and also kind of the emotional psyche of him also I want to say I meant to preface this with like a kind of thing that she said but thank you both so much for your incredible stories that they're so relevant to now and I mentally loved both of them thank you so so much for everything see I'm sorry you're questioning what the questions sorry yeah I mean that's the great gift of playing someone who's finding themselves find themselves as a person at a young age but also their sexuality and finding their sexual physicality is there's um there's you know a little form of that expression and that's wrong the only thing that would feel wrong to me is if something felt particularly contemporary as a physical expression remainder ISM that you win see in the 80s but besides that you know I felt like I had free license that's one of the great things about working with a director you trust in someone like Luca and I'm curious this was Daniel's experience of Jordan but when you feel like you're really synchronized and on the same page it gives you room to fail and I love all the manners in the movie I love all the slides and doorways all that but there's a lot of that that didn't make it in there just because it was the room to try it out so as much as I'd love to say it was one of the control room actors you know pulling on the knobs and dials those are moments of spontaneity that's what I like as an audience member I like seeing things that feel spontaneous I thought there's two different schools of acting two different schools of audiences you know and some people really like to see the person in the control room and I like to see real life lived on screen it's such a it's such a mature performance any O's is and there's such a way that you've really pulled back so I wonder how you work for the lucca to kind of get the idea but like it is pull back it could you could have gone all out this is my she was like having a little not a lot of experience but a little to experience as a young actor prior to call me by her name and go into a drama high school and I'm sure maybe there's actors in here or young actors you feel a certain pressure to bring hyperbole to not even climactic in fact non climactic moments and you want to indicate you want to demonstrate how you're feeling because to your director to the casting director you want to go look I know what I'm doing and that that's those aren't the performances we love and I remember thinking you have the gift to be a lead of a movie hold it as close to the chest as possible and I am an expression I have a guy with a lot of expression so you know where am i heart on my sleeve without really doing it so often if I can if I know where I am in a scene or what I'm playing it's obvious usually like a little too much and if I'm genuinely in it and I don't know what's going on and I'm trying to read and react honestly which is scarier because maybe you won't do something cool and maybe you'll be awkward or or whatever that's more real which sounds like a cliche or cheesy or something but that's what you're going for so that's what I was trying to keep in mind I suppose Daniel it's very similar to Chris and get out you we as a viewer everything you lead us to the point we're always unfolding at the same time you're unfolding is in each piece is coming together okay we're not fed that in advance in a really clever way kind of it's all seen through you and every time something is real you know you know and so you know even kind of the bit with the keys and you just see or you've got a realization how did you work with Jordan to keep that tension so there is a real great level of tension all the way through that you know it could have been lost at any time but it's just so balanced how did you keep the the thriller for the audience as well as yourself I mean that's like who I learned a lot that's implicit in a lot from Sicario and watching Benicio del Toro dude that one set and then watching the film and I was like this guy is a magician no because he's doing nothing he's actually doing nothing you feel everything and I watched it it's why I was like this is I don't know and so I kind of was like oh it's the audacity to do nothing you know is and Anu basically allow the audience to project and but that's what truly happens in those experiences that's the the conflicts you're going for you guys I know you're being kind of disrespectful but I can't I can't say that right now and I have to choose when I say that but I still filled her and so that was in the script that's not saying we're children did the work in terms of the write and dynamics is about having to navigate that and also on top of all of it he's trying to be a good boyfriend so is that kind of like but you know I think everyone subconsciously knows if you're going through that experience there needs to be released in some way so a lot of times I think people stay for the release and then it's just that you just don't want to be said you don't want to indicate you don't want to show like ah you just want to go all right cool like that you just want to be real that's what would happen in a real situation that allowed the audience in to what this guy is thinking and then they follow and they and they come to their own conclusions which may be what you're doing it may not be what you're doing but that's the interesting bit you know is like just let what do you think you know the training ground you've both had in a way it kind of uh slipping through the list of directors that you've both already work with in the sense with Greta Gerwig and Luca and with Denny Villeneuve with Jordan Peele and I think you've just completed something a Steve McQueen as well do you feel that you perhaps like you know I kind of you've just very fortunate in that sense that you know you've had this incredible training ground with these four masters of cinema already what are the key things that you've learned along the way from each of them yeah I like I really like how you put there because I like I left college to pursue acting and that was one of my big insecurities was I don't want to meet myself six years from now and feel like I was Dumber opinion there hadn't been challenged and I think it can be easy to be negotiated about show business and think I would do it at a young age you know the roadmap is is maybe unhealthy but I mean like every like you put it like every set is learning experience and what's been thrilling is for me is working with the directors that are as instinctual as actors and that see framing and cameras like as an instinct and the way it's it's totally foreign to me the way I feel about acting and like I had a small part in interstellar but I got to see Christopher Nolan work for ten days and it's all instinct it's all like he knows eeks I don't I didn't see him like think something through once it was like nope there there there boom boom boom boom boom boom book like he knew exactly we wanted so that was he but if it even it's what I did Steve I'd like the first day on set was this massive scene like I look like I'm doing an accent and it was like this big scene I had to do like I'm really the one I didn't audition had to doing this like I really I can't see what happens in it but yeah but it was and I kind of spoke to him about on set because I was really nervous I was nervous and then because I really respect him and then and it was just that thing when I think what you communicated is something that they all kind of believed in he was like like he's like I set the boundaries do what you want within that you mean and in his like and then it's like surprised me surprised yourself and that's what this one to me the two of you was talking about it's like what happens in a moment that's the exciting bit because you can't actually replicate it sometimes I do avi I don't know I've got there like I don't know what I'm doing because it's the moment Jones and it's like you can't rip it's interesting about life that's what I find interesting about documentaries because you go that person the next day be in the same situation and can't say that in that way you know because in that moment they felt like that and so that's my it's that they they kind of give they trust you is where you trust them they trust you to kind of to trust your instincts and go and if I know they'll be frank and then you can actually have a conversation and then they know you're coming from a good place where you're trying to build something so yes in terms of kind of building time there is you have in a way in become the master of accents you how do you work with kind of you know getting the right vernacular and adopting higher so so it seems authentic so you're not thinking about it as you're doing it you know kind of you've mentioned with Steve McQueen widows but with Black Panther with get out you know it's so authentic and there's a level of you know not even seeing you Daniel I'm seeing you know Chris I'm seeing what carpet I'm seeing that person because their voice is so natural how do you get into that mostly fear I have a person who I know is from there and go if they watch it they will cuss me out so I go alright cool that's why I need to wake up and do what it's work like it's got to be an emotional reason just an order like all this kind of like technique that it's like why like what short like what's a way in it like so that that guy is gonna be on what set gun in me yeah and I just I just drill it like every morning it's just it's an hour's game like I'll just listen I'll have I'll find a person who is that person who I think is similar and I just listen to them instead of listening to a podcast I just listen to them and so you you work on it like in the background so because you don't want that accent and acting are two different disciplines just answer you like I could do in it to put you wanna you can't think about accent when you're doing your job it's you can't it's just it helps you to do your job saying it makes the character more believable within the world that you're in but you're still having to express an emotion or carry some sort of story be so idea that I just kind of I kind of just drill it every morning and every night and then usually after work with someone like an accent culture or some sort to kind of like so just to fail to fail to kind of go that sounds dodgy and then our recording then I listen to that back and then I got all that sounds dodgy I'm harsh on myself like that sounds bloody when I say like that what I've got why does it sound dodgy didn't I speak to the woman again or am I getting oh god this is this and it's just you it's a process you know and then but it's for me it's about who is that person as opposed to what does that person sound like because then it's like because is it just how you sound it's how you carry yourself it's how you like your your thinking your like attitude a lot of time its attitude about come and do an American accent like this I can't do it because this is quite London how I am so like you just have to find an adopter a general or a kind of person within that world that's kind of like the generic person you have to find an identity within that culture what sorry I interrupt did you stay in that world in between takes then yeah I stay in it and it's really helpful when others stay in it as well because then you could just talk in there and people kind of think you're weird for two days in life your own r-spec but then it's just like you mean there when it comes out you you just have to do your job you mean so it's like yeah I just stay in it a lot a lot of times if I'm by myself in the area like I stay in it when I'm going shopping and stuff like that so I was there a lot of times they'll throw words at you and then you have to just say it you're like I'm around Sicario don't they through a word I mean I know what it is but so I just made sure that like anything that comes my way I can I am more because when you weren't sure scared of it it shows up in a tape with Elio staying in character there is he's a very definite physicality to the way he is and the way that you present him did it help that you can added over you stayed in the village where the film was made for a number of weeks and kind of surrounded yourself in that environment did that help and did you kind of stay yeah absolutely I don't think I was aware of how much that helped until I jumped into another project but I mean I was there a month and a half early we shot on one camera we shot on one lens so they weren't switching the camera positions all the time in switching the lens and Luca our director his company's called frenzy and all the members of production and worked on his other movies so I had this impression I was like stepping into a like an Andy Warhol like factory or something and a great way like in a you know I felt very two positions she you know and and and then when I jumped into the the next thing I did which was we shot on a stage in LA and you're working in a studio and you're opening doors and our real doors and that's you know we there's a there's a bit I like and call me by her name or Elio and Oliver are gonna make love for the first time and it's kind of awkward and they don't they're kind of dancing around it and the door starts shutting slowly and it slams and that's just a trait of the house and a beautiful gift of the villa gave us that day in such a way that if you weren't shooting on the actual location it would be more sterile and sanitized so I like the immersion of it but uh it'll be hard to replicate that because like I said we were there early it was so specific to the town and also the beautiful thing about that story there's there really isn't an antagonist or a plot twist or a moment that you know characters have to play something it's a lot of people just being you trying to be as truthful and real in every scene and this movie was like okay be as truthful as you can now go lounge by that pool over there oh my be as truthful as you can but have this delicious breakfast experience if we can just briefly also touch on Lady Bird kind of Greta Gerwig writer director actress it's kind of a triple threat in that sense but how was it than working with someone that obviously knows your well from being an actor as well but also from the other side Hove has written the script and is directing it yeah I mean well the script was so tightly written that there's so much pride when I see that movie because it sits in a world of naturalism and realism but as Greta will say with pride too there's very little that's improv in that movie it's really succinctly written and and like you said she was an actress and I don't know what your experience is working with actors or directors but I really really like it I think there's a language that's spoken that is that's like directing by nudges as opposed to like do this and and that's very helpful I mean that was one of the big things coming out of drama school for me it was hard to learn was working with film and television directors and realizing oh they're not purely focused on my performance the way an acting teacher saying be as truthful as possible that wasn't real they're thinking about the lighting the set design the blocking how they're gonna cut it you know what the sequences in the movie and then maybe somebody's coming over and say you have 20 minutes to shoot it so they're not as concerned about that and then like if you're working in a dialect or something that can be or for whatever physicality that can be not nerve-wracking what you gotta you gotta have your own barometer and that's what was amazing with Greta it was like I don't know I said I saw her last night it was I hadn't really seen her since a lot of these nominations came out it it's something I like what I like to say to hers I like that you made that movie in total confidence and now there's this great reception it wasn't like a [ __ ] show wasn't like she was running all over it and it wasn't like we were throwing it together was an assured experience and yeah okay there's a microphone right here the lady in the red top hi firstly Daniel you're from North London which i think is so cool because we go to Highgate Wood and say it I'll always just write for my son I think it's so cool that there's like a local now on the big big screen and we're really proud of you now both of your films have like really heavy subjects so race or like sexuality is it important for you to make films that impact people and not telling important stories and what is it like to meet people like and call you by your name if you meet people that have like their lives have changed because of this film or if you see black young men talking to you about how get out is like touch them and it's like very real to them how does that feel for you guys thank you I think anything I'm just kind of the belief if anything where it's like called by a name always twice three like they're all about something deep I think John's aim is I'd just think it means something to the person it's like the lego movie that was deep for me like that but it's that's that's what you're tapping everything is also and so yeah that was that was that mmm so I always look for scripts that are personal to the person that's telling it in some way shape or form if someone asked me to do something like why'd you want to do it like and then for me I don't know I have no control about how it I just want to connect in some way I think that's what we want to do like just want to connect and make people feel something even if you think it's bad at least I made you feel something you know if you just forget about it that's like wow like God knows how many people on set and crew and cast and you did he forgot about that's crazy like Jamie and is that Robbie thinking [ __ ] I mean so and I so that's what is I thought let's connect and then in terms of like people coming up to me it's um it's crazy like it's it's it's crazy but it's like you kind of feel you kind of feel like again it's there's no like when you I feel like I do so we do sign as a team and then it's ours and then it's out there and it's yours like it's what you think about it reveals you and how you feel so I'm like well that's how you feel that's how you feel and I'm just happy that you wanted to take it you know yeah I feel the exact same way and I don't know who I at Sundance I remember somebody raising their hand and saying that the monologue Michael stole war it's character gives he plays mr. Perlman at the end of the film you know they felt like that's a father they never had a father they needed and the father they hoped that kids now would have in film representation and that was really surreal for me like I said before we go on so many auditions and sometimes even get cast and things that are received so to have a moment like similarly for me like for me was like hearing an album when I was 13 about like anxiety and sadness whatever and having that experience and thinking oh my god somebody this is I'm hearing what I'm experiencing represented and being on the other side of that equation now people have been saying that to me that's what you sign up for really I mean oh that's why it's awesome to be here for the BAFTAs and and the award stuff's great but I think for both of these films what's amazing is like it goes beyond that I mean I think hopefully like five years from now people we still be able to see these movies and and really get something out of it and like I said it's what you sign up for as an artist we dream of it's like being able to actually affect people III don't know how it's it's so amazing I don't know I'm sitting here or it feels like a pinch me moment because if the first dreams to be economically self sustainable and the second dream is like to I don't know feel it in abundance or something then this is really what you want you know this is like getting to affect people so that's it that's good feeling okay anyone microphone Daniel working in Hollywood and paying American rules I was wondering what kind of British story would you want to make what kind of film would really feel like a homecoming and Timmy I was wondering if you wanna play any French rules in the future yeah I think that's what that's what the Bernie knows what writing is for me just to kind of have the British fake and because London's as big as New York in terms of like impact chat as in as like or the rent isn't it Joe means yeah that's kind of like I think I add that but he's a good like I used to jog around North London lat Kelly on the Kelly I ran there and then it was after a trip to New York I don't think let me like they just don't like we always think oh we're just doing our thing and we all kind of like really apologetic another why don't they think we can just do anything and that's my kind of where I think my brains head is kind of let's do British contemporary British stories and let's show what London is you mean in the vein of like they pretty things and a lot of Steven Knight stuff too I mean it's like what I feel that he taps in a lot of that and Shane Meadows so that's like the aspiration not kind of wanna head yeah yeah oh yeah I mean yes I would really love to do that and hopefully that opportunity presents itself and also the employment so that's nice let's come to this gentle in the front here and then let's line one up kind of up there Thanks um so my question was to Timothy about Lady Bird I was listening to yesterday to an interviewer Saoirse and she said that stinks Gretta cast the film because a lot of the characters and the actors kind of shared some sort of similarity but like Kyle does come across as a bit of a dick so what were the things about him that you that positive aspects that you sort of drew from and focused on when you were just when you were betraying him absolutely well I rent for both of the male roles and Lady Bird for Greta so I was doing a play in New York one of the producers of the movie and so I read Lucas's role and I read mine and I think I don't know obviously that rule has to play there has to be a tone of antagonism simply by consequence of the fact that she's in his house and then leaves in tears and then has that beautiful scene with her mom in the car but wouldn't made it you know appealing was I felt like and this is up to the audience member to describe if this is true or not cuz the art takes place in the head of the audience member and not on-screen but I felt like this is a real this is somebody who's suffering and like he says his father's dying and he's in a lot of pain and there's a comedic note to it she's simply a pyre to waste some of the lines are like that's hella tight' like things like that but um but it felt like a real guy and like and and what's been funny you're talking after the movie with some of those people with people that have seen it is they are people saying I I know that guy and and or like it's very funny so that people say man I dated that guy great 20 times and we have all day so um but thank God yeah I don't see too much myself in encou there's also like a level of paranoia that felt like fun to play with too and and and because some of the so many of those scenes are were funny and like there are takes where we would break I think and like those obviously aren't in there but that was a big challenges feeling like okay or not challenged with eight but a challenge feeling like okay this guy's maybe not likable but do it as grounded ly as possible and never crack and never try to make it like oh and try to make it as real as possible because I felt like I played a character in just in a TV show a couple years ago that was supposed to be an antagonist and I just played an antagonist when I could have tried to see what's this guy actually thinking and actually feeling and not just trying to be negative in that sense like like all the other capsulated but it's so well written because yeah he's not particularly likeable but then he is really like when some haze you know he is you know all the shades of gray in between you know so in that thing it's just a normal teenager at the end of the day and so kind of in that sensor or testament to Greta oh absolutely writing him in that way yeah I think we have a question thank you both of you from both movies my question is for Timothy I don't I don't ruin it for everyone but I'm talking about the last scene and you can take it as his breakdown because of the news he just got from Oliver but also as a breakdown from the OL experience he went through and he stuff is winter whereas the summer goes through in Italian he's it's kind of floating through it so I wanted your input on how you played it and what emotion you put in the last scene yeah I think that's why I really like the way you put it I've never imagined it in the lens of like a of a winter Oh a winter breakdown sorts obviously as it relates to this summer I don't know again like I feel like the art takes place and they had the audience members so it's it's as you see it and and I for me what was if there was something specifically to capture in that whole sequence it was just uh you know what leo comes in with a with a more positive energy that we've seen and there's the lakas and and his headphones and dances a little bit it was just important to capture that feeling of love lost or the summer and and maybe feeling of Elia they didn't pursue it as quickly as he should've or that maybe he's had four months three hasn't thought about Oliver as often and he gets his phone call and it's like Wow that someone was so amazing and I will never share that connection with anybody again and as you see it in the fireplace or the sequence before that that's how ever you see it is right and I I wouldn't know what the right answer is a question for Timothy when I came out the cinema with my friend I think we were both sort of speechless for a good ten minutes after seeing a film and I just wondered what your initial reaction was when you saw the complete film and whether at that moment I kind of thought it might become bigger than you'd all expected or whether that kind of happened a lot later yeah well so you know I went to school in the fall semester after we shot the movie over the summer and right after I finished shooting Lady Bird actually and the advice I got was to watch it before Sundance because I wasn't gonna be able to watch like I wouldn't be able to fully appreciate it but I wanted to like see it in a beautiful people for the first time so I guess the answer is it's just all very weird because first time I watched it was it was like it was like a thousand people there so I couldn't really watch it because I was like man I'm sitting here with a thousand people and I'm having sex with a picture great and but then um but and then when it ended I don't know like Armie Hammer who obviously plays Oliver he had been in Birth of a Nation the year before at Sundance and the way he had described the reaction when that movie ended he sounds like in 11 minutes there people were going over enthusiastic about it and then after her comer name finished it was more like stunned in the eye and I couldn't read it and I know what it was I remember army and I like saunter backstage and there is this there's like a photo booth and like we like awkwardly took photos and then just waited and to see what three actions were gonna be but it was a weird I didn't I didn't I couldn't see it the first time and and also it was like freezing out it was like a there was a big snowstorm and they were watching this movie that was took place in Italy over the summer and and it was such an immersive experience it was like being back there so we had first time I thought it was weird but you know in the 73 times I've seen it since like yes okay what was it like for you Daniel the first time you'd seen get out wait and who did you see it with I saw in a laptop I saw the laptop yeah before a reshoot so I didn't have an ending so because he had to recreate what we did them and then it was iuck not really sad I think that's the film messed me up like because the client like that descent into rage that that's Joe it's like so yeah it was kind of like sad and in the end note because it was still good the police at the end the police and he gets arrested so I was at our mine like and then I watched it in LA and I just couldn't really watch it properly I think it would been great it all been like all posted finish and I just those those screenings are so overwhelming that you kind of can't really watch the film properly because you just it's just too much and then there's a bit with the bingo seem and Matt Bradley Whitford in the bingo scene that's when I kind of kind of relaxed there was a TARDIS I really like this film as I like it I mean it was like I like it doesn't and then then my friends are there and my family is there God do you like it too and then there's some said yeah so that was it and then I kind of just and I miss out there it's not love to know what your parents kind of think at the moment or both of you kind of you know with the success and the nominations you know they keeping you weren't really grounded or you know they just as thrilled for you as everyone else yeah that's both I mean yeah we've got one last question and ladies got the microphone just here hi I just again I really want to thank both of you guys for these amazing movies I've requested for Timothy because now you're really working on your craft in front of the camera have you ever considered potentially doubling in like writing or directing behind the camera yeah absolutely absolutely in you as a writer director named Xavier Dolan that I'm a huge fan of because like he's I guess he's 28 now but you know he made a movie called I killed my mother when I was a night he's 19 or 20 and I mean he's made like a number of films and mommy's excellent and Lawrence anyways so when I see him doing it that's very inspiring but now I would be very patient and I feel like you know all the universes told me at this point is you're good actors so I got it you know that's the only thing I'm trepidatious about going through all this stuff for the young age is this feeling of like hey I want to be back I don't want to be like oh yeah like you know he's a great young actor and now you know so and I also want to make sure it's not kind of like Lady Bird you know the great the great thing about labor was wasn't you know an actor directing a movie was like three-minute takes that are you know it better unspecific and just feel like life filmed it was like I'm the writer director and this is Jory get out too like this is exactly how I wanted to be done so if I ever did it that would be the interest not to you know capture a tone vaguely and and get the experience being a director that that wouldn't be fair I just want to say I can't wait to see whatever comes next for both of you and congratulations on the nomination successful the success of both the films thank you Tim Emily Thank You Daniel clear [Applause] you [Applause] you

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