QUEER 2024 FULL MOVIE - DANIEL CRAIG DREW STARKEY
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00:00Daniel Craig, l'autore dei costumi Jonathan Anderson.
00:11Daniel and Drew, I think there was a part of the question was for you two.
00:17What was the question again?
00:20The question was about the erotic scene and the intimacy.
00:26How did you reach this level of intimacy?
00:28Intimacy?
00:29We, there's some choreography in the movie which is a very important part of the movie.
00:39Drew and I started rehearsals on that months before we started filming, which is dancing
00:45with someone is a great icebreaker.
00:48So we approached the scenes, you know as well as I do, there's nothing intimate about filming
00:57a sex scene on a movie set.
00:59There's a room full of people watching you.
01:01So it's like, it's not, we just wanted to make it as touching and as real and as natural
01:12as we possibly could and Drew is a wonderful, fantastic, beautiful actor to work with and
01:19we just, we kind of had a laugh.
01:22You know, we tried to make it fun.
01:28Which is such a singular experience as an actor, you know, I've never had an experience
01:34like this to really dive into one moment in a story and explore every avenue possible.
01:43So yeah, but collaborating with, I mean I'm not a dancer, Daniel's definitely not a dancer.
01:52But I think we learned, I think we got better together, so.
01:56Found our limits.
01:57Yes, limits.
02:00Daniel, do you want to add something to the question?
02:05Yeah, I mean it's, the whole, you know, the trip at the end, the third act, you know,
02:11it's so important to the film.
02:13It doesn't happen in the book.
02:14It's something that Luca decided to put in because we needed it.
02:21We needed to see them connect.
02:24We were talking about-
02:25Collaborate together and suddenly you find you've created this character.
02:30Hello, Helen Barlow from Australia, hi.
02:33I don't think we've had the obvious question, why did you cast Daniel Craig, who was once
02:39James Bond, and why, did you have any second thoughts about it, Daniel, about playing this
02:46role, given that you are quite a superstar?
02:49And, well, whatever.
02:52And do you think there could be a gay James Bond?
03:00Guys, let's be adult in the room for a second.
03:05There is no way around the fact that nobody would ever know James Bond desires, period.
03:12Having said that, now.
03:25The important thing is that he does his missions properly.
03:29Having said that, I have been an admirer of this gentleman for a long time, despite he looks and he is pristine.
03:44And I had this intuition that I suffocated within me because, you know, like, I'm pragmatic.
03:51Like, you have to make movies.
03:52You cannot daydream.
03:55The gentleman that is in the room was really the one that was not pragmatic and said to me,
03:59what about Daniel Craig?
04:00And I said, I thought about it, but he's never going to say yes.
04:02And he said to me, let's ask.
04:05And he said yes.
04:06And the yes was a definitive yes.
04:10He's one of the greatest actors.
04:12It's a privilege to work with someone like him.
04:15And for me, one of the great characteristics of the great actors that you love, that you want to see on screen,
04:21and you are affected by, I would say, is the generosity of approach.
04:27The capacity of being very immortal on screen.
04:37And very few are, and very few iconic legendary actors allow that fragility to be seen.
04:44And that's one of them is Daniel, for sure.
04:48Daniel.
04:49Oh, God.
04:50Okay.
04:51No, I just want to follow up on Lucas, because beside the allure of working with him and all these other wonderful, talented people,
04:59what is it about Lee that you were interested into exploring?
05:05Well, first off, the reason I did the movie is because of this great man here.
05:08I mean, it's like, I mean, it was when I wanted to work with him for a long time.
05:14We met 20 years ago and said, maybe we should work together.
05:17And we finally did, which is just a wonderful thing.
05:24I kind of look at this movie and I think, if I wasn't in the movie and I saw this movie, I'd want to be in it.
05:29Does that make sense?
05:30It's just, it's the kind of films I want to see, I want to make, I want to be out there.
05:37They're challenging, but they're, hopefully, incredibly accessible because they're movies.
05:43I mean, they're movies as I understand them.
05:49So, the challenge of playing Lee was just talking.
05:55We just talked.
05:59One of Lucas' incredible talents is he just wants to hear everybody's opinion.
06:03I mean, he has a very strong opinion, don't get me wrong.
06:06But he wants to hear everybody's opinion because it's really important to him to hear other people's voices about what it is.
06:12And it's so freeing because you're not kind of like on track.
06:17You're just like, okay, maybe this, maybe this, maybe this.
06:20So, I don't look back as a challenge, just as a joy.
06:26I want to add something, a very queer thing to do.
06:30One, yeah.
06:31For example, for Mr. Craig, maybe not everybody will get this, but I saw traces of Geordie Peacock in Lee, which I thought was very strange also.
06:40But just in terms of how you center these characters, like what did you see in them that was appealing to you and that you wanted to put out there,
06:50especially relative to Mr. Burroughs' life, which was deeply tragic and deeply complicated?
07:00The research that I did, I watched a lot of William Burroughs being interviewed.
07:08He had this persona.
07:11I can only describe it as a persona.
07:13It's very kind of deep and measured.
07:18And I thought, that can't be him.
07:20Or if it is, it's a part of him.
07:23It's something that may be a defense.
07:25Maybe it's something.
07:26And I think that when I thought about that and I read Queer and we talked, I thought, we've got to try and find the other person.
07:35There's very little knowledge of that.
07:36There's very little kind of talk of it.
07:38And that really was the thing that I kind of wanted to try and key into.
07:43Because having read Junkie, which is sort of very dry and this is this and this is this, Queer is this emotional just thump.
07:54It's a tiny book, but it's this emotional thump.
07:58And it is about love, but it's about loss.
08:02It's about loneliness.
08:03It's about yearning.
08:04It's about all of these things.
08:06And, I mean, God, I mean, if I was writing myself apart and trying to tick off things that I wanted to do, this would fulfill all of them.
08:16Taking us in an internal process through this couple.
08:22This is love.
08:23It's a couple.
08:24This is only love.
08:25And through love, bringing the characters to that trip around South America and Mexico.
08:33But it's an internal trip.
08:35An internal trip maybe to try to find himself.
08:39Do you think it could be possible that the public or the people projecting themselves and say that internal trip, not lying to ourselves, not cheating to ourselves.
08:53Do you think that could be part of the public when we see it?
08:58Because that was at least what I thought.
09:01And to Daniel.
09:03How did you feel that sadness, it was a role, but you project that sadness in that trip.
09:14How did you feel through this character?
09:19Because it touched, really.
09:24I don't know if there's any one thing I did.
09:26I just felt like all you can do is you can just absorb everything you can.
09:35And then on the day, a great director, you figure it out.
09:40So if you saw it, that's wonderful.
09:47Hopefully there's no effort to do it.
09:50It was happening.
09:51And that's what hopefully you saw.
09:54I'm really sorry.
09:55They just came to tell me we ran way out of time.
09:59Thank you, everyone.
10:00Daniel Craig.
10:06L'autore dei Costumi, Jonathan Anderson.
10:10Daniel and Drew, I think there was a part of the question was for you two.
10:15What was the question again?
10:18The question was about the erotic scene and the intimacy.
10:24How did you reach this level of intimacy?
10:31There's some choreography in the movie, which is a very important part of the movie.
10:37Drew and I started rehearsals on that months before we started filming.
10:42Dancing with someone is a great icebreaker.
10:46And we approached the scenes, you know as well as I do,
10:54there's nothing intimate about filming a sex scene on a movie set.
10:57There's a room full of people watching you.
11:02We just wanted to make it as touching and as real and as natural as we possibly could.
11:12Drew is a wonderful, fantastic, beautiful actor to work with.
11:17We kind of had a laugh.
11:20We tried to make it fun.
11:26Which is such a singular experience as an actor.
11:29I've never had an experience like this to really dive into one moment in a story
11:36and explore every avenue possible.
11:39But collaborating with... I mean I'm not a dancer.
11:43Daniel is definitely not a dancer.
11:48But I think we learned. I think we got better together.
11:51We found our limits.
11:53Yes, limits.
11:56Daniel, do you want to add something to the question?
12:01Yeah, I mean it's the whole...
12:04The trip at the end, the third act, it's so important to the film.
12:09It doesn't happen in the book.
12:11It's something that Luca decided to put in because we needed it.
12:17We needed to see them connect.
12:20We were talking about collaborating together
12:22and suddenly you find you've created this character.
12:26Hello, Helen Barlow from Australia. Hi.
12:28I don't think we've had the obvious question.
12:31Why did you cast Daniel Craig, who was once James Bond?
12:36Did you have any second thoughts about it, Daniel?
12:40About playing this role, given that you are quite a superstar?
12:45Well, whatever.
12:47Do you think there could be a gay James Bond?
12:52Guys, let's be adults in the room for a second.
12:58There is no way around the fact
13:00that nobody would ever know James Bond desires.
13:04Period.
13:05Having said that...
13:09Now.
13:11The important thing is that he does his missions properly.
13:14Having said that...
13:16Darling, don't worry.
13:21I have been an admirer of this gentleman for a long time.
13:26I have been a fan of his work.
13:28I have been a fan of his work.
13:30I have been a fan of his work.
13:32I have been a fan of his work.
13:34I have been a fan of his work.
13:36I have been an admirer of this gentleman for a long time,
13:40despite he looks and he is pristine.
13:43And I had this intuition that I suffocated within me,
13:47because, you know, I'm pragmatic.
13:49You have to make movies, you cannot daydream.
13:52The gentleman that is in the room
13:54was really the one that was not pragmatic
13:56and said to me, what about Daniel Craig?
13:58I said, I thought about it, but he's never going to say yes.
14:01And he said to me, let's ask.
14:03And he said yes.
14:04And the yes was a definitive yes.
14:08He's one of the greatest actors.
14:10It's a privilege to work with someone like him.
14:13And for me, one of the great characteristics of the great actors
14:17that you love, that you want to see on screen
14:20and you are affected by,
14:22I would say is the generosity of approach.
14:26The capacity of being very...
14:34immortal on screen.
14:36And very few are, and very few iconic legendary actors
14:40allow that fragility to be seen.
14:43And that's one of them is Daniel, for sure.
14:48Daniel.
14:49Oh, God.
14:51No, I just want to follow up on Lucas,
14:54because beside the allure of working with him
14:57and all these other wonderful, talented people,
14:59what is it about Lee that you were interested into exploring?
15:05Well, first off, the reason I did the movie
15:07is because of this great man here.
15:09It was when I'd wanted to work with him for a long time.
15:13We met 20 years ago and said, maybe we should work together.
15:16And we finally did, which is just a wonderful thing.
15:22I kind of look at this movie and I think,
15:24if I wasn't in the movie and I saw this movie,
15:26I'd want to be in it.
15:28Does that make sense?
15:30It's the kind of films I want to see, I want to make,
15:33I want to be out there.
15:35They're challenging, but they're, hopefully,
15:38incredibly accessible because they're movies.
15:42They're movies as I understand them.
15:49The challenge of playing Lee was just talking.
15:54We just talked.
15:58One of Lucas' incredible talents
16:00is he just wants to hear everybody's opinion.
16:02He has a very strong opinion, don't get me wrong.
16:04But he wants to hear everybody's opinion
16:06because it's really important to him
16:08to hear other people's voices about what it is.
16:11It's so freeing because you're not on track.
16:16You're just like, OK, maybe this, maybe this, maybe this.
16:19I don't look back as a challenge, just as a joy.
16:24I want to add something, a very queer thing to do.
16:29For example, for Mr. Craig,
16:31maybe not everybody will get this,
16:33but I saw traces of Geordie Peacock in Lee,
16:36which I thought was very strange also.
16:39But just in terms of how you centre these characters,
16:42what did you see in them that was appealing to you
16:46and that you wanted to put out there,
16:48especially relative to Mr. Burroughs' life,
16:51which was deeply tragic and deeply complicated?
16:59Um, there's a...
17:01The research that I did,
17:03I watched a lot of William Burroughs being interviewed.
17:07He had this persona.
17:09I can only describe it as a persona.
17:12Very kind of deep and, you know, measured.
17:16And I thought, that can't be him.
17:19Or if it is, it's a part of him.
17:21It's something, maybe a defence, maybe it's something.
17:24And I think that...
17:27When I thought about that,
17:29and I read Queer and we talked,
17:31I thought, we've got to try and find the other person.
17:34There's very little knowledge of that,
17:36there's very little talk of it.
17:38And that really was the thing
17:40that I kind of wanted to try and key into.
17:42Because having read Junkie,
17:44which is sort of very dry
17:46and just like a kind of this is this and this is this,
17:49Queer is this emotional just thump
17:53in about, you know, it's a tiny book,
17:55but it's like an emotional book.
17:57And it is about love, but it's about loss,
18:00it's about loneliness, it's about yearning,
18:03it's about all of these things.
18:05And, I mean, God, if I was writing myself apart
18:08and trying to tick off things that I wanted to do,
18:11this would fulfil all of them.
18:14Taking us in an internal process through this couple.
18:20This is love.
18:22It's a couple, it's only love.
18:24Bringing the characters to that trip
18:28around South America and Mexico.
18:30But it's an internal trip.
18:33An internal trip maybe to try to find himself.
18:37Do you think it could be possible
18:40that the public or the people
18:42projecting themselves and say,
18:45that internal trip,
18:47not lying to ourselves,
18:49not cheating to ourselves,
18:52do you think that could be part of the public
18:56when we see it?
18:57Because that was at least what I thought.
19:00And to Daniel, how did you feel that sadness,
19:05it was a role,
19:07but you project that sadness in that trip.
19:12How did you feel through this character?
19:17Because it touched, really.
19:22I don't know if there's any one thing I did.
19:25I just felt like...
19:29All you can do is you can just
19:32absorb everything you can
19:34and then on the day,
19:36a great director, you figure it out.
19:39So if you saw it, that's wonderful.
19:45There was no,
19:46hopefully there's no effort to do it.
19:48It was happening.
19:49And that's what hopefully you saw.
19:53I'm really sorry they just came to tell me
19:55we ran way out of time.
19:57Thank you everyone.
19:58Daniel Craig.
20:04L'autore dei Costumi, Jonathan Anderson.
20:08Daniel and Drew,
20:09I think there was a part of the question
20:11was for you two.
20:14What was the question again?
20:16The question was about the erotic scene
20:21and the intimacy.
20:22How did you reach this level of intimacy?
20:29There's some choreography in the movie
20:31which is a very important part of the movie.
20:35Drew and I started rehearsals on that
20:37months before we started filming.
20:41Dancing with someone is a great icebreaker.
20:44And we approached the scenes,
20:50you know as well as I do,
20:51there's nothing intimate about filming
20:53a sex scene on a movie set.
20:55There's a room full of people watching you.
20:59We just wanted to make it as touching
21:03and as real and as natural as we possibly could.
21:10Drew is a wonderful, fantastic,
21:13beautiful actor to work with.
21:15We kind of had a laugh.
21:18We tried to make it fun.
21:24Which is such a singular experience as an actor.
21:27I've never had an experience like this
21:30to really dive into one moment in a story
21:34and explore every avenue possible.
21:37But collaborating with...
21:39I mean, I'm not a dancer.
21:41Daniel's definitely not a dancer.
21:46But I think we learned.
21:47I think we got better together.
21:49We found our limits.
21:50Yes, limits.
21:54Daniel, do you want to add something to the question?
21:58Yeah, I mean it's the whole...
22:03The trip at the end, the third act,
22:06it's so important to the film.
22:08It doesn't happen in the book.
22:09It's something that Luca decided to put in
22:14because we needed it.
22:16We needed to see them connect.
22:19We were talking about...
22:20Collaborate together and suddenly you find
22:23you've created this character.
22:25Hello, Helen Baller from Australia.
22:27Hi.
22:28I don't think we've had the obvious question
22:32why did you cast Daniel Craig,
22:34who was once James Bond?
22:38Did you have any second thoughts about it, Daniel,
22:41about playing this role
22:43given that you are quite a superstar?
22:47Well, whatever.
22:49Do you think there could be a gay James Bond?
22:56Guys, let's be adult in the room for a second.
23:02There is no way around the fact
23:05that nobody would ever know
23:07James Bond desires, period.
23:10Having said that...
23:13Now...
23:22The important thing is that he does his missions properly.
23:25Having said that...
23:28Darling, I adore you.
23:32I have been an admirer of this gentleman for a long time
23:38despite he looks and he is pristine.
23:41And I had this intuition that I suffocated within me
23:45because I'm pragmatic.
23:47You have to make movies.
23:48You cannot daydream.
23:50The gentleman that is in the room
23:52was really the one that was not pragmatic
23:54and said to me,
23:55what about Daniel Craig?
23:56And I said, I thought about it
23:57but he's never going to say yes.
23:58And he said to me,
23:59let's ask.
24:00And he said yes.
24:02And the yes was a definitive yes.
24:06He's one of the greatest actors.
24:08It's a privilege to work with someone like him.
24:11And for me,
24:12one of the great characteristics of the great actors
24:15that you love,
24:16that you want to see on screen
24:17and you are affected by,
24:19I would say is the generosity of approach.
24:24The capacity of...
24:27Being very...
24:32Immortal on screen.
24:33And very few are
24:35and very few iconic legendary actor
24:38allow that fragility to be seen.
24:41And that's one of them is Daniel for sure.
24:46Daniel.
24:49No, I just want to follow up on Lucas
24:52because beside the allure of working with him
24:54and all these other wonderful talented people,
24:57what is about Lee
24:58that you were interested into exploring?
25:03Well, first off,
25:04the reason I did the movie
25:05is because of this great man here.
25:06I mean, it's like...
25:07I mean, it was when...
25:08I'd wanted to work with him for a long time.
25:11We met 20 years ago
25:12and said maybe we should work together
25:14and we finally did
25:15which is just a wonderful thing.
25:20I kind of look at this movie
25:21and I think if I wasn't in the movie
25:23and I saw this movie,
25:24I'd want to be in it.
25:25Does that make sense?
25:27It's just...
25:28It's the kind of films I want to see,
25:30I want to make,
25:31I want to be out there.
25:33They're challenging
25:34but they're hopefully incredibly accessible
25:37because they're movies.
25:40I mean, they're movies as I understand them.
25:45So, the challenge of playing Lee
25:49was just talking
25:52and we just talked.
25:56One of Luca's incredible talents
25:58is he just wants to hear everybody's opinion.
26:00I mean, he has a very strong opinion,
26:01don't get me wrong,
26:02but he wants to hear everybody's opinion
26:05because it's really important to him
26:06to hear other people's voices
26:08about what it is
26:09and it's so freeing
26:11because you're not kind of like on track.
26:14You're just like,
26:15okay, maybe this, maybe this, maybe this.
26:17So, I don't look back at a challenge
26:20just as a joy.
26:22I want to add something,
26:24a very queer thing to do.
26:28For example, for Mr. Craig,
26:30maybe not everybody will get this,
26:31but I saw traces of Geordie Peacock in Lee
26:34which I thought was very strange also.
26:37But just in terms of how you center these characters,
26:40like what did you see in them
26:42that was appealing to you
26:44and that you wanted to put out there
26:46especially relative to Mr. Burroughs' life
26:49which was deeply tragic and deeply complicated?
26:59The research that I did,
27:01I watched a lot of William Burroughs being interviewed
27:05and he had this persona,
27:07I can only describe it as a persona,
27:10very kind of deep and measured
27:14and I thought, that can't be him.
27:17Or if it is, it's a part of him.
27:19It's something, maybe a defense,
27:21maybe it's something.
27:23And I think that,
27:25when I thought about that
27:27and I read Queer and we talked,
27:29I thought, we've got to try and find the other person.
27:32There's very little knowledge of that,
27:33there's very little kind of talk of it.
27:35And that really was the thing
27:37that I kind of wanted to try and key into.
27:39Because having read Junkie,
27:43which is sort of very dry
27:44and just like a kind of this is this and this is this,
27:46Queer is this emotional just thump
27:51in about, you know, like it's a tiny book,
27:53but it's just like an emotional thump.
27:55And it is about love,
27:58but it's about loss,
27:59it's about loneliness,
28:00it's about yearning,
28:01it's about all of these things.
28:03And, I mean, God,
28:04if I was writing myself apart
28:06and trying to tick off things that I wanted to do,
28:08this would fulfill all of them.
28:11Taking us in an internal process
28:15through this couple,
28:17this is love,
28:19it's a couple,
28:20this is only love.
28:21And through love,
28:22bringing the characters to that trip
28:26around South America and Mexico,
28:28but it's an internal trip,
28:31an internal trip maybe to try to find himself.
28:35Do you think it could be possible
28:39that the public or the people
28:41projecting themselves and say,
28:44that internal trip,
28:46not lying to ourselves,
28:48not cheating to ourselves,
28:50do you think that could be part of the public
28:54when we see it?
28:55Because that was at least what I thought.
28:58And to Daniel,
28:59how did you feel that sadness,
29:03it was a role,
29:05but you project that sadness in that trip.
29:10How did you feel through this character?
29:15Because it touched, really.
29:20I don't know if there's any one thing I did,
29:23I just felt like,
29:27all you can do is you can just
29:30absorb everything you can,
29:32and then on the day,
29:34a great director,
29:35you figure it out.
29:37So if you saw it, that's wonderful.
29:43There was no,
29:44hopefully there's no effort to do it.
29:46It's just, it was happening.
29:48And that's what hopefully you saw.
29:51I'm really sorry,
29:52they just came to tell me we ran way out of time.
29:55So thank you everyone.
29:57Daniel Craig.
30:03L'autore dei Costumi,
30:04Jonathan Anderson.
30:07Daniel and Drew,
30:08I think there was a part of the question
30:10was for you two.
30:12What was the question again?
30:15The question was about the erotic scene
30:20and the intimacy.
30:21How did you reach this level of intimacy?
30:28There's some choreography in the movie
30:30which is a very important part of the movie.
30:34Drew and I started rehearsals on that
30:36months before we started filming.
30:40Dancing with someone is a great icebreaker.
30:45We approached the scenes,
30:49you know as well as I do,
30:51there's nothing intimate about filming a sex scene
30:53on a movie set.
30:54There's a room full of people watching you.
30:56So it's like,
30:58we just wanted to make it
31:01as touching and as real
31:06and as natural as we possibly could.
31:10Drew is a wonderful, fantastic,
31:12beautiful actor to work with.
31:14We kind of had a laugh.
31:17We tried to make it fun.
31:23Which is such a singular experience as an actor.
31:26I've never had an experience
31:29like this to really dive into
31:31one moment in a story
31:33and explore every avenue possible.
31:38But collaborating with,
31:40I mean I'm not a dancer.
31:42Daniel's definitely not a dancer.
31:47But I think we learned.
31:48I think we got better together.
31:51Found our limits.
31:52Yes, limits.
31:54Daniel, do you want to add something to it?
31:58To the question?
31:59Yeah, I mean it's the whole,
32:02you know the trip at the end,
32:04the third act,
32:05it's so important to the film.
32:07It doesn't happen in the book.
32:08It's something that Luca decided to put in
32:13because we needed it.
32:15We needed to see them connect.
32:19Collaborate together
32:21and suddenly you find you've created this character.
32:25Hello, Helen Barlow from Australia.
32:27Hi.
32:28I don't think we've had the obvious question.
32:31Why did you cast Daniel Craig
32:33who was once James Bond?
32:37Did you have any second thoughts about it, Daniel?
32:40About playing this role
32:42given that you are quite a superstar?
32:46Well, whatever.
32:47And do you think there could be a gay James Bond?
32:55Guys,
32:56let's be adult in the room for a second.
33:01There is no way around the fact
33:03that nobody would ever know
33:05James Bond desires.
33:07Period.
33:08Having said that,
33:12now.
33:18The important thing is that he does his missions properly.
33:21Having said that,
33:28I have been an admirer of this gentleman
33:32for a long time
33:34despite he looks and he is pristine.
33:37And I had this intuition
33:39that I suffocated within me
33:41because I'm pragmatic.
33:43You have to make a decision.
33:45I'm pragmatic.
33:46You have to make movies.
33:47You cannot daydream.
33:49The gentleman that is in the room
33:51was really the one that was not pragmatic
33:53and said to me,
33:54what about Daniel Craig?
33:55And I said, I thought about it
33:56but he's never going to say yes.
33:57And he said to me,
33:58let's ask.
33:59And he said yes.
34:01And the yes was a definitive yes.
34:05He's one of the greatest actors.
34:07It's a privilege to work with someone like him.
34:10For me,
34:11one of the great characteristics of the great actors
34:13that you love,
34:14that you want to see on screen
34:16and you are affected by,
34:18I would say is the generosity of approach.
34:22The capacity of being very
34:30immortal on screen.
34:32And very few are
34:34and very few iconic legendary actor
34:36allow that fragility to be seen.
34:39And that's one of them is Daniel for sure.
34:44Daniel.
34:48I just want to follow up on Lucas
34:51because beside the allure of working with him
34:53and all these other wonderful talented people,
34:55what is it about Lee
34:57that you were interested into exploring?
35:01First off,
35:02the reason I did the movie
35:03is because of this great man here.
35:06I wanted to work with him for a long time.
35:09We met 20 years ago
35:10and said maybe we should work together
35:12and we finally did
35:13which is just a wonderful thing.
35:18I kind of look at this movie
35:20and I think if I wasn't in the movie
35:22and I saw this movie,
35:23I'd want to be in it.
35:24Does that make sense?
35:26It's the kind of films I want to see,
35:29I want to make,
35:30I want to be out there.
35:32They're challenging
35:33but hopefully incredibly accessible
35:36because they're movies.
35:39They're movies as I understand them.
35:43So the challenge of playing Lee
35:47was just talking.
35:50We just talked.
35:54One of Lucas' incredible talents
35:56is he just wants to hear everybody's opinion.
35:58He has a very strong opinion,
35:59don't get me wrong.
36:01But he wants to hear everybody's opinion
36:03because it's really important to him
36:04to hear other people's voices
36:06about what it is.
36:07It's so freeing
36:10because you're not kind of like on track.
36:12You're just like,
36:13okay, maybe this, maybe this, maybe this.
36:16I don't look back as a challenge,
36:18just as a joy.
36:21I want to add something,
36:22a very queer thing to do.
36:26For example, for Mr. Craig,
36:28maybe not everybody will get this
36:29but I saw traces of Geordie Peacock in Lee
36:32which I thought was very strange also.
36:35But just in terms of
36:37how you center these characters,
36:38what did you see in them
36:40that was appealing to you
36:42and that you wanted to put out there
36:44especially relative to Mr. Burroughs' life
36:47which was deeply tragic and deeply complicated?
36:58The research that I did,
36:59I watched a lot of William Burroughs being interviewed.
37:03He had this persona.
37:05I can only describe it as a persona
37:07which is very kind of deep and measured.
37:11And I thought that can't be him.
37:14Or if it is, it's a part of him.
37:17It's something that may be a defense.
37:19Maybe it's something.
37:20And I think that
37:22when I thought about that
37:24and I read Queer and we talked,
37:26I thought we've got to try and find the other person.
37:29There's very little knowledge of that.
37:31There's very little kind of talk of it.
37:33And that really was the thing
37:35that I kind of wanted to try and key into.
37:38Because having read Junkie
37:41which is sort of very dry
37:42and just like a kind of this is this and this is this,
37:45Queer is this emotional just thump
37:49in about, you know, like it's a tiny book
37:51but it's just like an emotional thump.
37:53And it is about love
37:56but it's about loss.
37:57It's about loneliness.
37:58It's about yearning.
37:59It's about all of these things.
38:01And, I mean, God,
38:02I mean, if I was writing myself apart
38:04and trying to tick off things that I wanted to do
38:06this would fulfill all of them.
38:10Taking us in an internal process
38:14through this couple.
38:16This is love.
38:18It's a couple.
38:19This is only love.
38:20And through love
38:21bringing the characters to that trip
38:25around South America and Mexico.
38:27But it's an internal trip.
38:30An internal trip maybe to try to find himself.
38:34Do you think it could be possible
38:37that the public or the people
38:39projecting themselves
38:42and say that internal trip
38:44not lying to ourselves,
38:46not cheating to ourselves.
38:48Do you think that could be part of the public
38:52when we see it?
38:53Because that was at least what I thought.
38:56And to Daniel.
38:57How did you feel that sadness?
39:01It was a role.
39:03But you project that sadness in that trip.
39:08How did you feel through this character?
39:13Because it touched, really.
39:18I don't know if there's any one thing I did.
39:21I just felt like...
39:23All you can do is you can just
39:26absorb everything you can.
39:28And then on the day,
39:30a great director, you figure it out.
39:33So if you saw it, that's wonderful.
39:40Hopefully there's no effort to do it.
39:43It was happening.
39:44And that's what hopefully you saw.
39:47I'm really sorry.
39:48They just came to tell me we ran out of time.
39:51Thank you, everyone.