Baftas 2024 host David Tennant hails Barbenheimer as turning point for cinema

Baftas 2024 host David Tennant hails Barbenheimer as turning point for cinemaSource: EE BAFTA Film Awards 2024

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00:00 How are you? I'm alright. Yeah, it's all very giddy making, all this, isn't it?

00:05 All this, all these people start arriving, these extraordinary frogs and there's a...

00:09 I mean, it's all... it's exciting. Yeah.

00:12 I like the way you look.

00:13 What's the worst that can happen? It's not like I'm going to lose, lose or win a BAFTA.

00:17 [Laughs] Does it make a different...

00:20 Well, I don't know a lot, I mean, I don't know a lot of these people, is it?

00:23 I mean, these are some of the biggest movie stars in the world, aren't they?

00:27 They're all jetting in. I spent the morning staring at photocopied pictures of them,

00:31 you know, attached to chairs across an auditorium. I hope they all show up.

00:35 Otherwise it'll be very disappointing.

00:38 I just hope they all sit in the...

00:39 What's it say, do you remember, the Barby Hymer thing kind of taking over as that headline, didn't it, of course?

00:43 But there's all this other stuff going on. It seems like very healthy that that happened

00:46 and everyone went back to the cinema and drove.

00:48 It seems like there's a lot going on. It feels like it's a thriving industry.

00:51 It feels like... Yes, you're right, the Barby, the Barb and Hymer thing was a nice, crunchy headline,

00:57 but it almost marked a kind of return to going out, didn't it?

01:00 I mean, you know, we'd had those very odd years when we didn't really want to be in rooms having collective experiences.

01:08 And cinema suffered, live theatre suffered, but I think we're back.

01:12 I think all that is... I think people want that experience again.

01:16 So it seems to be happening and it seems to be in rude health as an industry.