Emma Stone & Bradley Cooper | Actors on Actors

so seriously I do want to talk about your immense Talent why are your eyes so closed cuz I realized like as i' as I've got I'm serious as I've like gotten more comfortable with myself the truth is I think better when my eyes are closed it's not you sh you have to work through this oh man I think it's really nice it's crazy okay so [Music] Emma [Applause] [Music] Emma copsy poopsies I'm so happy to see you you too you're looking so fresh am I yeah oh thanks you look great I like the Blazer thank

you I have to give it back at the end of the day and the leather skirt also not mine well maybe you should ask to keep them okay thanks for having me thanks I just I just moved in so we still have a couple things it's gorgeous I like the the kind of linal space it's like we're in a space shuttle but we're also in a living room yeah it's really nice it's cozy but scary all right let's wait hold on let's begin with talking about when we first met I think I have to populate the room so it's not so

echoey right when people come in here and like won't feel so like comfortable yeah I mean it's but I but I like what you've done because you can go and dance quickly oh that's true easily yeah should we it's beautiful not right now okay I have something that I can't cancel so okay American Summer joke anyway yep I already moved it twice it you're a Trapper Keeper cuz I've already moved it twice Okay so we've known each other for half my lifetime now did you know that I do know that I think I was

that's actually not true because I'm always forgetting your age remember I just well I guess it's not I just turned 35 and we met when I was like 19 18 yeah on the rocker on The Rocker yeah which was a real which was actually an immense fun a very fun movie but I feel like you were only on that for like a week I was it was me and Fred armson and Will Arnett and a Gentleman who played the drummer of vvus I remember that was the band I know I'm closing my eyes just deal with it dude all right fin

e f fine I'll take take don't make a think about okay it's fine I'm good I'm going to do it too tell me it doesn't feel good feel good tell me I'll fall asleep if I do it for too long um so I um yeah so I was like what's up that's not weird is it no um okay okay okay all right all right keep it together keep it together they're going to edit this we're fine right we're fine they're going to run the whole thing jeez Louise well I was just making sure we're good I just going to relax so I do want

to can I can I just skip the poor things is that all right oh okay yeah I would love that just because I was blown away by the film and I uh I called you and luckily you answered and I was able to there's nothing like being able to communicate with somebody love when they You' seen them create art like that and we had I'll never forget the FaceTime we had after I saw it um never forget it I'm serious really dude just all right all right all right okay okay fine fine take it all right all right j

ust breathe and just let me talk I'm closing my eyes keep yourself so i' I've I love you so dearly as a friend but to see you sore as an artist in this film it was really moving that it means so much to me you know that and just your your just your effortless abandon um I just don't I you know I think I said this there's no absolutely no one else who could have done that um like ever I assume you didn't shoot in order no so how the F did you were you able to track her Evolution because you're ba

sically playing a baby to a 35-year-old yeah in the matter of two hours yeah so so how did you do that thank you for saying all of that first and for this is so incredibly sweet of you means you know we've talked about this before but that means the world to me youro told me about the general kind of overall structure of the story right after we made the favorite so we had about four and a half years between talking about poor things to making poor things explore bloods in Me Bella it's dangerou

s to go out without me I have adventured it and found nothing but sugar and violence it is most Charming I am fine we realized after a while that we needed to create stages for her I went through the script and I mapped out about 10 stages and we were like that's way too many stages to hop around in so we made it five and then we went through and talked about her language and how that evolves and then the physicality within each stage and what occurs sort of on her journey to kick her into the n

ext stage so at the beginning in Baxter's house we basically only did stage one and stage five because it was you know we only had that location then and then and then we sort of did the middle of the movie afterwards so did you shoot that last scene in the beginning yeah amazing yeah all the last you end of the movie so the first and last scene of the film I speak French um can I be excused yeah yeah I'm I I don't really need you okay great um hold on we're getting back good thank you same End

by accent is perfect um some cool cool cool oh yeah wa wait wa um so so back to the uh anyway okay so you're talking to to yuros about the five the five stages yeah and then do you go back and then how do you start to inhabit what those are because you're certainly not just thinking about it I assume you start did you prep how did you prepare for the each stage it was really like the two of us collaborating through the entire thing so we had like what does that mean are you FaceTiming are you sp

ending time together well we went to Budapest for a month before we started shooting so we had like a monthlong rehearsal process with the other actors with the other actors and then we would have solar rehearsals with just him and I where we would work truly on like the walk for an entire day or we would work on you know how she and can you can you just do that right now yeah so and was just like one of my favorite things can you just do it do you do just do it'll do it later anyway um yeah we

so we we worked on that and then a lot of it was kind of just experimenting in the moment because a big thing was you know early on I went into it being I think more literal than I needed to be you know watching videos of like a toddler learning to walk or how someone says their first words and because she's in this fully formed adult healthy body right her relationship to not knowing how to walk you know it's not even like you could you could compare it to someone who's just been like in an acc

ident and is recovering and learning to walk she's completely fine and needing it's just her brain that hasn't caught up so it which was great because there was nothing to compare it to so it's just completely like does this work does that not work this looks stupid like this is you know I mean it all looks a little stupid but that's the part of the it's all absolutely believable I'm aming glad you feel that um but it's a metaphor it's not based on a true story no you know that right I got it di

d my research dude do what did you look it up on Wikipedia yeah on wikip pedes on wikip yeah man Google told me Google told me this isn't real immediately after I was with my daughter I was with my daughter the other day and she's like so what happens after you when you die oh no I was like I you know I don't I I actually don't know CU I just always tell her the truth yeah doesn't Google knew I was like oh my God she asked if Google knew yeah I was like maybe did you did you look it up to see wh

at it no I didn't turns out Google D yeah yeah we were getting ice cream um but uh you have a phone though right that has internet on it yeah you can Google on your phone I don't like to be on my phone or on my daughter that's cool you're a really good Dad thanks anyway so so you were uh they're like what the [ __ ] happening sorry guys again we've known each other for way too long um the camera just looked his watch uh so so so okay so here's my question so the second thing is so so say you're

preparing each stage do you talk about comedy or he just trusts that you have rhythm comedic Rhythm because it's just so it's so believable and so funny at the same time it well Tony's writing Tony magnam who wrote the script also wrote the favorite he also wrote kruella so I've worked with him quite a few times and he's very funny and he's a very specific type of you know the way his dialogue moves and like I know it's Tony's writing right away because he he just has that sort of like feel for

but when you say his writing did did he write the the sounds that you're making and the Rhythm with which you you make them in the beginning because you're not even saying words really so I that's just you that were you and your ghost figuring out yeah like kind of figuring out what would happen the rhythm of it around the dinner table you know I mean all that stuff yeah I mean that's but that that's just Instinct I I guessed so partially but it also was that rehearsal process was so helpful bec

ause we all got to know each other so well and we all you do in a rehearsal with YH is like mess around you play theater games it's not literal at all you're not like reading the scenes and working out how they're go it's very playful like you're like a human noodle or you're doing log rolls or whatever all yeah like really fun things where you kind of embarrass yourself do he do it with you sometimes he does it with you but then otherwise he kind of like just laughs through the whole thing whic

h is great is his DP with you or just he yeah Robbie Robbie comes and and watches and sort of you know gets to know everybody so everybody feels really like silly like a troop and fre and like a troop that's what movies feel like quite honestly it's because of that it's because of that process and we have the same no other cast in any other film it feels like like I'm watching this film and then they're going to take it somewhere else yeah that's and that's exactly what it feels like by the time

you're even on set for the first day you're like we we've already had dinner every night we've already been like all over each other in rehearsals and like you know have made fun of each other and you know been embarrassed and so there's nothing that really feels like it's off limits when you're on set because you're with your friends I've been a whole you understand [ __ ] for money inside me you okay with that so you show up on set are you the kind of actor where like you're just you talking

making jokes and you then you switch it on with action or with this movie which is so in your body was it easier just to sort of be in that place the whole time I didn't think that I was staying in it between at all but then I think once the movie finished and I like went back to life and when I left Budapest and I went back to New York I was like whoa it is very weird to not be Bella it is sort of embarrassing because it sounds very act but I'm sure you know this with we're going to get into yo

ur movie in just a second but that looked painful wa you wait you okay we don't have to talk about dud we do not have to talk about it Bradley I'm right here Bradley I'm right here yeah all right I'm back okay sorry about that that's all right it's all right I just take a call it that's not did you took a call I took a call wow yeah yeah I was on the phone sorry about that that's okay um no I it was I I like I miss Bella I actively Miss Bella I I do she was like the most joyous curious you know

incredible inspiring character to be in and so I didn't really know how kind of alter interr and that's what I love about the writing too because everybody feels that way in the movie all the other characters feel that way about Bella yeah yeah because she's such an incredible character so far beyond like whatever the the performance of it is it's like she is so lovable she's so but the movie is allowing you to love her too because everybody in the movie wants can't not be around her no and they

also want to completely like yeah some of them want to like stifle the life out of her ter powerful than and then they still want to be around her even though like she makes them insane yeah really which leads to Mark Ruffalo oh my God who I've always loved but I haven't seen him do something like this where you just realize oh like this guy can do anything he's so funny yeah he's so funny and just went out on a limb completely and the and the amazing thing about Mark is that could not be more

opposite of that character in real life and so in between he's just like this love bug he's like wait so he was not like that my God like what am I doing this is so I'm being so nasty and then you know it's like action and he's like that's you know it's so he's he it was incredible they could not be more opposite as people Duncan and Mark right so can I ask you a little bit about my asro wow I love the way you pronounced that what pronounced what myastro myastro yeah yeah you're film myastro sur

e okay Bradley this is this has been really fun because I got to sit and watch A Star is Born you were in the back of the theater and then for an hour after Star is Born I sobbed uncontrollably and then my mother and I got to come over and watch Maestro with you and you were not sitting right next to us but you were in the room and both of us were just like an absolute wreck by the middle of the film and so in awe of what we were seeing what you were doing what Carrie was doing your direction th

at conducting scene which I was like in full body chills for an entire how long was that 6 minutes yeah 6 minutes insane it was like it felt like an hour and it felt like I was watching like a true a true conductor like a master at work and you got to talk to me about that entire process because I I knew when you started I mean it was six years in the making yeah and six minutes of conduct what's your thing with sixes I don't know you have a little huh Co that's not funny stuff you don't mess wi

th that there only um I remember when you were when you were beginning the process of maestro years ago and you were talking about Lenny and what you were feeling about this whole project and that idea for the opening sh I remember having dinner at your house and you were showing like this kind of idea for that whole movie to see that in the film years later was so unbelievable to watch you you know in the bedroom and then moving into the theater and it was just so like personally fulfilling to

watch having seen you know pce of it throughout but for you entering into that what I heard which I didn't understand was that there was like a Spielberg like he was going to direct that he was going to direct a movie about Leonard Bernstein got it and he talked to me about potentially acting in it just acting how much I loved conducting since I was a kid obsessed with it how did you get into conducting as a kid I mean when I say conducting play conducting like you know no I know but why what wa

s it Tom Jerry you know Bugs Bunny you know the was like cartoon conducting you thought that was so well I that's where I start I was like oh well you can do this and like the sound comes out yeah you know and then I asked Santa Claus for batom and I was like just around eight years old and then um and then I would just conduct all the time because there was classical music playing in my house we had a record player in the living room and I used always just sit in the living room and just start

to conduct whatever the music was and then I started to have favorite pieces of music and it would ask my dad to get CDs of that and then one of them was this uh chaikovsky Opus 35 in D Major do you remember that movie with Dudley in Arman deante they play conductors I don't if you ever if you've ever seen it but it was that piece of music so I remember seeing that as a kid like oh my gosh I know had to do that music and so I would spent hours and hours and then in grad school Ellen buron came a

nd did a workshop with us and we' like create a character and I wrote a monologue about a conductor so I was like this conductor like a huge part of me and I knew that somewhere I thought gosh I've done so much work on like believing I'm a conductor that if I ever had the chance to play one there's years and years of like rehearsal inside of me yeah and that and I felt that way about Merck too the Alpha Man and certain things like a rock star I was always like you know I've done a lot of air gui

tar you know and you know when you believe you are something it really that's all we're trying to do anyway that's the only thing the only we have to do right so I I always thought that gosh if I ever got to play one I might like Sly I believe it yeah uh and then he wasn't going to direct it and I just finished a stars born and I I really found what I loved which is writing and directing movies I just never dreamt that big when I was a kid but that was actually the dream I had like when I saw th

e AL man you've been that way since I met you I feel like that's always been part yeah later yeah sort of but but you but I never sort of like gave myself the the the license to do it until I was 40 uh for a Star Wars born but also I I had the luxury of like the honor of being able to work with directors who really allowed me to be a part of of that process yeah but then he decided not to do it he didn't think he was going to do it and I just said well could I what would you think if I took it o

n and then I showed him a Stars board and then he said yeah then I had to get the rights of the music from the kids and then it just all started and I just started doing research and that's how it started back in 2017 the end of 2017 I know exactly who you are it's give it a world how is your relationship with his kids oh the I mean that's the whole movie wouldn't be what it is if it wasn't for the kids I mean they were part of it every step I included them in everything except for the shooting

that I keep like closed off yeah of course um but then yeah they've been they they were invaluable you know and and they provided so much just being around them you know because Felicia and Lenny they spoke melodically and his voice was just lyrical yeah the kids have inherited that Rhythm so it was great just to be around it really that's so interesting I feel like our movies you you couldn't have made poor things if you didn't have a tremendous amount of prep yeah you know and it's the same th

ing with Maestro there just I watch your movie and and your performance and I think there's just no way this wasn't like uh you got a call and then months you're going to do it you know like like this had to have taken years well that but that is interesting because we it sounds like we worked on I mean obviously I didn't direct poor things you were also like yeah writing directing producing you were in every single facet of that experience and then the lead actor of the film I mean that's so mu

ch to take on but it is interesting that we both kind of these projects began in 2017 yeah and then we made them years later I know so living with it in that way even if you're not actively on a daily B because you know typically it is what you're saying like oh six months from now I'm going to go do this project and I'll start prepping you know soon and it's going to be really you know specific and for these couple months and then I'll be and then I'm done with it this kind of thing for for bot

h of us lived in the same frame of time where it's like it's sort of more um interior like you don't even even when you're not actively prepping it's weirdly like working its way inside of you because you're thinking about it so much which is a really amazing it's a huge gift and and it's also you know scary because you have so much time to think about it like to think about everything that could go wrong or the ways you could [ __ ] this up or all that or at least for me like there's a lot in y

ou this like I really I have felt that before in projects and maybe that's cuz I'm maybe although I've just recently realized that maybe I'm a bit of a control freak I knew that like if Maestro was going to mess up it was all on me because I was doing it I was not there I was not beholden to anybody else totally you know so there was a freedom in that yeah well as a huge burden that makes sense um we've done incredible roles in our career but but this kind of thing to me feels completely differe

nt yeah like this is actually a period of my life I'll never forget I'll carry it with me the rest of my life it is who I am as an artist and when I watch your performance in that film I just there's no version where I don't think that's the same case for you because it also feels like there's a lot of first like you know even though I'm not physically you know sort of naked I was completely naked like putting on this prosthetic and like being him and the way he talked and like and I would direc

t the movie that way so I was like acting from crew call to the end so you stayed just stating character yeah of course that would it would be impossible but I felt like so vulnerable and and I'm just watching your performance there's I mean the idea that that was a set and there were people shooting it and you were that vulnerable with your voice and your body like just being able to act so unorthodox like there had to be that you had to give yourself permission which I had to do as well of jus

t like jumping off the cliff every day yeah and that doesn't always happen when we do movies we're not always asked to literally jump off a cliff in terms of giving over to I don't know people laughing at us on set quite honestly that's what I used to think did did you feel that that there was like that level of abandon that you had to have I I did but you know to your point you're saying that it it all winds up with you at the end of the day that's what yoro says all the time you know like he h

e takes responsibility that the final product is is on him I mean he always kind of takes it on himself and so I do have that separation of being able to really like there's a captain of the ship that I fully trust and have such admiration and respect for which clear immense immense immense respect I me we've made four projects together now so it's like I'm able to sort of give give everything over so in that circumstance it's like people did laugh at me he would laugh at me be like that that on

e was crazy like let's get it whatever but that was best because it was like there's no eggshells we can fight we can laugh we can like all of that is totally free and we have such we're so close that it was like a very safe environment to do that and when it comes to any of the legitimate you know nudity or any those scenes that were that way we had this tiny tiny crew that was you know our our Limited crew was was your ghost was Robbie Ryan our cinematographer who looks at me like I am a table

or a lamp like it was amazing he was just like whatever yeah I'm not even thinking about you actually being physically naked I just meant like your performance oh yeah but but even in that respect it was like there was few people as possible at any given time by the way that's the way we do it too I mean there's no video Village on there's none on chairs on ours chair really yeah it's all there yours sits right next to the camera hasing it's exactly the same way I don't want anybody else around

completely and it feels very it feels very freeing because you know that you're just to the point where it's all it is kind of I did not know he did it like that yeah it it is kind of strange to see the movie after you make it because you're like I felt like such an intimate experience it was a camera this was a movie like what the hell um I knew there was a camera I just didn't know it was on right you know what I mean um but we have no marks there's no action there's no very yeah it's very it

's so that's a really nice like which is amazing too that I'm so glad you told me that because Maestro and poor things is a very structured stylistic they're both stylistic films like you know we had like three cameras running and then we made sweep those movies were made while we were shooting it yeah you know so it was very thought out um I love that that that that he I did not know that that's really cool what was it like working with um I hope I pronounce his name correctly uh your your husb

and uh he was a comedian he was so awesome the young actor Ramy yes yes oh he was amazing that was his first film he blew me away I mean he has his own show I know that yeah he was so wonderful he's so good I know he's so lovable and he was just like and he's so much fun as a again like that rehearsal process is inv valuable Because by the time you go in there I'm like like he feels like my brother you know he's just so wonderful and he's fantastic and that it's a hard part very hard it's a hard

part and for you to go back to him and for us to believe why is really yeah because he's the he really becomes because there is something kind of Twisted about what he's agreeing to do in marrying her but then he also is the most accepting of but it's also like you know think about like the trajectory of like a relationship in the end you just want a kind person yeah and someone that allows you to be yourself like she when she says to to Duncan like I'm a flawed and experimenting person we must

never marry you know that's I think that line alone too I've carried with me like we're all flawed and experimenting people at our best and he sees you for who you are exactly accepts you yeah but I but I you know there's so there's so many aspects of of who he is as a character and who Bella is that I really I really you know love see I also want to talk about that was um your your your co-star who runs the brothel Katherine Hunter wow she's incredible that scene when she comes to you and you'

re in bed she's amazing wow that was really just her physicality are those her tattoos no that was all that was all that's unbelievable I really I didn't know who I don't know that actor oh my God to go so so I thought that that that uh yuros had cast somebody who just oh no she's I had no idea she was nomin for an Al here you better do some research let's cut that out let's cut that out just want to protect to you okay it's really dude dude you should have talked to me about that before I didn'

t know you I think the cameras are still rolling it doesn't matter that we're Whispering hi you guys you're watching variety actors on actors with me Emma Stone and Bradley Cooper so Bradley great to see you um what was it what was it the other question I have is you know the set design the production design is insane I assume most of that was done on a on a set Sound Stage is that correct it was all it was exclusively a Sound Stage except for there was one scene we were in the park and how much

of that is practical where you as actors can see what it is as almost all of it wow the lisban was the only part where there was there needed to be set extensions at the top where the cable cars are going across and the kind of ocean in the backg but even on the ship it was a giant LED screen so meant to feel artificial but it was a giant LED screen of the ocean wow but these sets I've never seen anything like it in my life it took about 45 minutes to walk through been you would walk down Alley

ways go into a hotel a full Lobby walk upstairs multiple hotel rooms walk back down walk out to a full rest wonderful another downstairs to a bar you got you you you are the character and you walk into the space it was it made it so easy because you know there Bella is wandering through Lisbon for a good amount of that and I just was you know just looking and we did something similar in Maestro that like but we found I I was so adamant that we shoot on these locations because I wanted the same t

hing where we would just walked cuz Carrie did so much work and it was like we owe it to ourselves to actually shoot in the places yeah just to cuz we so we could dwell and then you don't know what's going to happen yeah yeah that that's I I'm a big believer in that walking into backer's house and seeing Bella's bedroom for the first time like a week before we shot was so emotional for me to be like this is what you guys have seen Bella's room as and it's so detailed and gorgeous and like the wa

lls are literally quilted it was the same thing with costumes Holly wadington who did our costumes every part of the process was like it's just the most detail oriented film I've ever worked on I remember walking in a lot of it we shot at their Fairfield house and I remember walking up the stairs and going into his bedroom where he lived after she passed away and they lived together and just like you know the wallpaper and the bed and it just oh my God yeah I mean you were really in Crazy his en

vironment I was playing a metaphor of a person you were playing a very real created a world that's the same thing that you were able to walk around in habit when when he had the LED screens of the ocean did he play sound of the ocean for you guys uh no no no because we had to record sound for the for the movie are you okay it was a phone oh yeah it's okay we're current dude that's not gonna throw us we're professional uh okay Bradley will you talk to me about conducting the cathedral scene I'd l

ove to Emma thank you so much Bradley Cooper um you know this was such a tricky movie to to structure and figure out what I was even going to do and I knew that I didn't want to make a biopic but I also wanted biopic if you will yeah Myro myestro but but I didn't want to I can't do it you do it myestro one of the best voices in The Biz everybody and that's what I keep telling people no one's listening oh anyway continue um but I I knew that if I put his music in the movie then that's that would

do everything that book would ever do anyway like if you want to learn about Martin scris just watch all his films rather than yeah watching interviews well I you know so early on I knew I want to do all of his music and I wanted a classical pillar for his classical music and then for his musical theater and he loved mer Gustaf Waller and to me when I was researching it for some reason I never heard Mer's music which I don't know how I missed that but I missed it and that to me is the most power

ful piece of music I've ever heard in my life yeah and he conducted it it was one of the first things I had researched six years ago there's a YouTube video of him conducting an elely Cathedral this huge Gothic cathedral in the 70s with the London Symphony Orchestra it encapsulates everything you ever want to know about him as a conductor his ability to harness that music to be in the center of the Sun and not burn but instead just Shine the Light back onto US I thought well if I could figure ou

t how to conduct just like those six minutes at the end that could be that that piece of that that pillar for the movie yeah the benefit was that I knew six years ago and then I just started researching and and and and I was able to um get the the footage of just him conducting so I literally had him conducting that piece oh my God and then Gustavo dudl was kind enough to be working with me for the last six years he conducted that piece with the LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl and I was with him f

rom the first rehearsal all the way to the last rehearsal oh my God and then 3 and a half years later I traveled with him to Berlin and spent 2 weeks with him with the Berlin Phil Haron that is so cool which you know arguably the best orchester in the world in one of the best halls in the world that that Hall if you ever get a chance you can hear every single instrument it was built in the 60s and it still is like one of the best halls in the world uh and he did that that that same piece with th

em and then yanique segin who is the guy that really was like the other part of Lenny musically in the movie was there with me through all of the shooting and he made videos and he actually I had an earpiece when I did that and he would he was in another room making sure that I knew the tempo and for the for the for the time changes even though I couldn't hear it because it was so loud oh my God and I made this movie fearlessly and like we as we spoke about you know there's really nothing on The

Cutting Room floor within the scenes they are just what they are yeah which was wonderful for the actors and also challenging but that scene I I had like five different setups and I realized because it was all out of fear that I wasn't going to be able to plug off I didn't consciously know that at the time but the rest of the movie is like two cameras not even you know and then we're done we had very short days yeah but that one I and and that that one day I think it was a Thursday I just kept

messing it up because we were doing it live that was live with the London with 75 Orchestra members 130 and then all the background and these are all unicorns like they're the best of what they do the concert Master showed me like a still of him at four years old with two Wooden Spoons like that's when I start so imagine like you know I played ology it's like it's like you're in the you're in the like finals yes you know and you're and you're like okay I've played well this whole time the and st

anding on that Podium yeah oh my God and conducting is the hardest thing people always like what's conducting you're sort of just like it's like no looks ex you're like pouring Tempo a little bit ahead to make sure and you're also reminding everybody of these things that You' worked on in rehearsal luckily they're the greatest Orchestra in the world yeah but still I had to conduct them because the shot is seeing everybody so I messed up the whole first day I kept messing up and the minute I was

behind Tempo it's over like you can't you're I'm lost and imagine that like I'm doing this in front of first of all I'm Lenny I'm directing it and I'm like and I just thought and they don't really give you anything you know these and I was just like oh my it was a nightmare it was total and I went to bed and I texted the sound mixer which he gets a text at like 2: a.m. from the director saying like do we have it question mark That's how vulnerable it was I'm course but it makes total sense but a

nd then he wrote me back he's like I think so I'm like and I text Jason rder the the musical the other guy and I'm like do we have it you know it's like an insec like we got it right we got it we got of well of course but it makes to but we didn't have it though we didn't have it you to do it again no so I woke up in the morning the next morning we were supposed to shoot that outdoor uh scene with the cathedral there was a scene of her driving up that didn't keep in the movie so we had a techno

Ukraine for that and and again honestly like I feel like Lenny kept showing me what to do all the time I really did so I was I would always get ready before crew call so I was like at work six hours or five hours before crew call become Lenny and then I'd be able to walk in the set a little bit maybe before even anybody came the crew so because we were all staying right in that little small town elely we shot in the cathedral that he played in um I walked into that church and it was empty we wer

e're not supposed to shoot there that day and I just and I looked up and and I just I had like a conversation with him and I was like I got to give it one more shot and they all came in Maddie came in mango Scott Saka mot the crew I said guys before we go outside I know we have time that's not going to take long let's bring the Techno Crane in and it was so crazy like this huge you know 40 foot techno crane bringing in the bowels of the of the cathedral and I asked everybody to wait and I set up

the shot of a one t one shot that becomes her reveal police's reveal on right on her right shoulder yeah and it took like you know an hour and a half to set up I had like the the audio from the day before and we're going and I had like a bow and make sure the camera could go and then I was being her and we had set it up for six and a half minutes and then I brought everybody back in and I actually said like a prayer to Lenny in front of everybody like thank you for this opportunity we're just G

we're going to do it again and that's what's in the movie it was one take whoa and I did it and when it ended the tempus the guy you know from the back came running up and he was like you know what you did yesterday it was total [ __ ] you know today you conducted us I was like no no I know I know I know no no you don't understand you can't use yesterday at all I was like no no no we're not we're not we got it we got it we got it he's like that's unbelievable it was crazy yeah and it was really

like and my feeling my memory of that of that that take cu the other one I was just in my head was that I was actually floating above the orchestra and that I was able to like point to each musician do you think that's what could where well he talked about like the you know it was I don't know but it was the most you know seeing at the Oscars like playing at glenberry which I thought would be the things that I would don't even didn't even compare to what that experience was it was so you're say

ing those were crappy experiences no but it was like really and and I'm not and everybody and and and I feel like everybody felt it it wasn't just me everybody something something actually happened in that t that's what it feels like when you're watching the the film it was really it was crazy it really is I don't know what the heck happened but it was but the only thing I can say is that you know all the prep you know that kind of thing can only happen if you work and that's what I see in your

movie it's like there's no way she just winged it do you know what I mean like you're sick talented but like that had to be a tremendous amount of work it was but it was like the most joyous work ever yeah by the way I it never felt like it was hard you know people say was it so hard it's like it's not hard is not the word hard is not the word I I don't think ever when it comes no when you're enjoying yeah completely it's a it's it's beautiful we're so lucky to get to do this this is like it's a

joy yeah the only thing real did you ever think you would ever play Franken you know a a female Frank was that ever right I mean no so when Euro first pitched this to you what was your initial reaction I was completely in love I was like I please because he wasn't even pitching it to me I we were just having dinner and I was like so what do you what are you going to do next he's like oh there's this you know this one project there's this book that you know this book by Alice gray and uh working

out with Tony you know who again wrote the favorite and uh it's what's that one about and then he gives me the this woman Bella and she you know I mean the the short form explanation of that story is pretty whack and de you woman who jumps off the bridge now it's pregnant he's going to take the baby's brain out and puts it in her head reanimates her and then you know going through life and meets all these men and they're kind of like you know they try to possess her and she drives him crazy or

whatever and I was like I would love to do that if you were free and that sounds incredible yes and he's like I don't it wasn't a pitch you know that's what one of the things I'm kind of working on um but it was I was I from the very it was like a like something was screaming out in me it sounded like the most incredible thing and and it's based on a book so that you know obviously there's so much there already but she's my favorite character of all time I I don't know how I'll ever if I'll ever

get to get to play another character that makes me feel the way that she made me feel and and that's okay yeah that's like an incredible and and by the way I I would say that like you're going to bring her to everything you do cuz she's a part of you I really do think that does that sound too Hoke you I do believe it though you do yeah because there's a fearlessness that I saw that that that's not going to go away that she gave you I hope not I hope not it's not it was it was a very very yeah i

t was a it was a very life-changing experience just as a as an actor as an actor what what she did demanded of you and what Lenny demanded of me I thought there's no way it's not going to translate it's impos it's like impossible with you the lessons that you learned yeah yeah um cool thanks dude I thought we were done who to get out I love you coach that was [Music] awesome [Music] [Applause] [Music] n