Tom Hiddleston and 'The Life of Chuck' Director Mike Flanagan on the Beauty of Life | Variety Studio at TIFF 2024 - video Dailymotion

Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillian, and Director Mike Flanagan sit down at the Variety Studio at TIFF.

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00:00Stephen King said when he talked about the origin of the story for him was that he had heard someone say when an old man

00:06dies a library burns down

00:08That the end of a person is the end of a world, you know that even our individual experience ends a universe and

00:16That's something that I think is worth remembering that all of us

00:20Contain this and we contain multitudes

00:23Yeah

00:23We contain so much more than kind of our outward-facing cells and the sum of our experience and of our life

00:31is so much more than a

00:33Description or money or accomplishment like you're saying it's it's it's a world

00:38So each of us is the end of a world someday. Yes, the the end the end of a life is the end of a world

00:47and

00:49To what you were referencing if the life of every human being is a constellation

00:53At the end of that life all those stars will be extinguished

00:59Memories connections relationships moments and that

01:07Inside the inside the soul of every human being are a

01:11myriad connections real and imagined real relationships, but also

01:16Imagined connections to art and literature and ideas and books and music and all those things fold at the end of a life

01:25But I think any contemplation with death or with the end. I

01:30believe

01:32beautifully

01:34Inspires an appreciation of life and the stuff of life and the meaning in life

01:41That those people you love and the people you're connected to

01:44That's all that matters and the magic that's happened between you and that perhaps the

01:52The moments in your life that you thought was small

01:56weren't small at all

01:58those small moments were the big moments and

02:03I

02:05found that very

02:06Touching I think one thing that happens when we do contemplate the end like that

02:11The question we're all gonna have is why you know, why was it all what was it all for?

02:16Why did the good things happen? Why did the bad things happen? And there's something amazing about this story as King wrote it

02:24Because it doesn't have all the answers, but it it attempts to answer that and it points to something

02:30Something very specific and says that that's why that's what it's for and it's not everything

02:35It's it's not it's not the it's not the all-encompassing answer, but it's an answer. I think is true

02:41and

02:42That makes something like this a project that like how do you not how do you not do it?

02:47How do you not take an opportunity to try to point at an answer like that? It's true and it's brave

02:54Yeah, it's brave to

02:57Hold on to what's good in a world that feels like it's falling apart