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'Peter Pan & Wendy' Yara Shahidi On Making History As The First Black Tinkerbell
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8/17/2023
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ever. I'll start with you
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I think that it's interest
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also so important. I want
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you as well. The fact tha
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a central figure in this
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always in where this anim
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you know, iterations that
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pain, Wendy's been there,
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like, which is hurting, l
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like a movie between both
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So why do you think this
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she have like such a big
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fleshed out in this movie
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important because I think
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more to the character of
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really delved into becaus
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that she's such a strong
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Peter's equal and has a h
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And but I think fans immed
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the girl that was scared
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the threshold of being a
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to learn how to deal with
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that she faced, especiall
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in the 19th century. Yes,
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Alexander for you. Um, si
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Wendy is fleshed out. I t
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in this one that's flesh
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kind of like this dynamic
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Captain Hook. You know, w
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their few and like why th
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the beef that's there. So
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in this film that you thin
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film apart as far as deve
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story for what goes on be
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Well, definitely previous
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sort of brushed the surfa
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uh you see them fighting
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over the other. But defin
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is he's managed to, to, w
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Neverland that you can re
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also he's he's created a
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of them, which is really
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Yes. And also for both of
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of your favorite memories
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this movie and just like
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also like, you know, I'm
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you know, nice stunt work
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things like that that wen
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through this? Well, we ha
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Well, on set and off set.
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stunt. So two months at t
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spent prepping sword work
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was incredible. Uh, as we
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in in the same room. Uh,
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so nice to sort of suppor
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the way. I think that has
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time that we had because
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with each other and watch
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which was really importan
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Yes. Well, it looked fun
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look on screen as well. W
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so, so much for chatting
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not wait for more people
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you. Thank you. Bye. Have
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to ask, how have you felt
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and the kind words that p
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your casting because we'r
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now with you in this film
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little mermaid, you know,
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in the abc live event a w
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all this love and feedbac
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representation of people
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know, because you're in t
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seen. It feels so specia
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when I took on the role o
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that inherently it's a bi
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I don't look like how Tin
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me. But you know, through
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I finished filming almost
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then I, it was a very ind
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solo experience because i
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kind of by myself when I
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so I almost forgot what i
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dropping posters and thin
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really quite overwhelmed
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of time to process from t
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to it coming out. I was d
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and overwhelmed by the lo
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when they announced the T
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being able to see how man
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about getting that for th
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life, for the loved ones
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amount of people that wer
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I had that um felt so spe
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I mean, I don't know who
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Cinderella or without any
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the frog or really any of
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was so instrumental in my
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truly believing that I co
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spaces. And so to now hav
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to turn to this generatio
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excited. I'm excited for
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will know is possible for
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Absolutely. Absolutely. A
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how do you think this rol
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necessarily challenged? B
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was probably different be
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where it required a lot,
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emoting because you know,
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less slides than you're u
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of like um visual acting
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Tinkerbell's responses to
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that are going on and tha
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So what was it like being
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was limited talking but m
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her emotions and her reac
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things that way. It was,
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honest because I think it
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my mind body connection.
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that talk a lot. And so t
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where I really had to be
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body was expressing what
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I one had to actually hav
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everything I was doing. A
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that David and I had done
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what is she saying? Even
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to other people, I had to
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idea of what I was trying
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whether it went across, c
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could see that there's in
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Um And I also think it wa
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like play with a new rang
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because one, I mean me pe
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smiley. Yeah, I just I th
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smiley in my personal lif
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necessarily someone that
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that often or not visibly
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it required, you know, us
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typically use to try and
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I would use my face and m
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the entire range of emoti
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to caring to sad to worri
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a good time. And you know
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experience was unlike any
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detail oriented that I wa
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more aware of my face mus
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because everything counte
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bigger, she's larger than
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expression counted becaus
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on these tiny cameras whe
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the performance. Yes. Wel
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much for your time. You'r
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for more people to see th
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you. Bye. Have a good one
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with you first. I feel li
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I guess within the recent
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seen kind of a lot of fac
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do get like a new iterati
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be like, you know, darker
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So I think I feel like a
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like, oh, this may be, yo
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tape on Peter Pan and Win
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you know, this was announce
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the Green Knight. Yeah. W
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look like? But in seeing
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much true, true to what w
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at least like what we wou
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on the story would be. So
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decision process like to
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the version of the film,
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for everyone to be able t
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on screen. I think that w
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wanted to make a movie th
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and I didn't want, I had
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the dark and gritty Peter
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to me is wondrous and full
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an adventure. And I was r
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when the first trailer ca
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oh, it's definitely looki
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I can't wait for you to l
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this movie gets and how c
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was really exciting to me
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so much of this movie was
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both literally and figura
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been seen before in this
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Jude for you. I feel like
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explores this character i
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even not seen Captain Ho
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before. And I wanted to k
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is a character that we've
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different movies, animati
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Did you set out to kind o
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the portrayal that we've
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projects and ultimately h
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your own? So those, those
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the other versions are al
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and enjoyed and I didn't
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back and study because I
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well. Um, I was just more
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the area that David gave
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past, what made him who h
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that. Um, I went back to
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to look at the, the sort
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of hook as Barry saw him
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that as my starting place
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to make him authentic. I
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his anger. I didn't want
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for fury's sake or, or me
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the villain. I wanted him
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and real. I think that I
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make him more scary. I th
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more threatening. I also
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make him more human and u
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sympathetic. Yeah. Yes. A
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think the casting of um t
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actors in this film such
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Yara, et cetera, et cetera
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that was able to, you kno
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of sorts like these, thes
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know, we know, but I thin
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special to these versions
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that these specific actor
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was one of those cases of
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the right actor who would
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iconography that we all r
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them into fully fledged hu
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me as a director, so much
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in the casting. I love ju
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who all of a sudden illum
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for me in a way that I ev
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script never considered b
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with Alexander, with Yar
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Children and with Jude, I
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the luxury of getting to
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them once we cast them an
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was done just in the proc
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just on set, not even cha
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all of a sudden seeing wh
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it. And that is such a gi
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to have a cast that can i
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I thought I knew very wel
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hadn't anticipate because
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of themselves to it. Yes,
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you both so, so much for
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- Thank you. - Thank you.
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- Thank you. - Thanks.
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