David Lowery speech at Jude Law's Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony

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https://www.maximotv.com  Filmmaker David Lowery speech at Jude Law's Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony on Thursday, December 12, at 6840 Hollywood Boulevard, next to the El Capitan Theatre and across the street from the world-famous Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California, USA. This video is available for editorial use in all media and worldwide. To ensure compliance and proper licensing of this video, please contact us. ©MaximoTV  🇺🇸

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00:00Also, how interesting is it that I get to talk about you, and I'm just going to pretend

00:12you're not here.

00:13That's what I'm going to do.

00:14I'm going to do.

00:15So it's so weird.

00:16I just want to say all this to you because I mean it.

00:20Jude and I are at that age where we're basically the same age, but once upon a time, I was

00:27a very young man getting his driver's license, and the very first movie, once I had my driver's

00:32license and was legally able to drive, the very first movie I ever drove myself to see

00:37was a movie called Wild, starring Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde, and this very striking

00:43actor who I'd never seen before.

00:46A few months later, there he was again in this incredible science fiction film called

00:50Gattaca, and then a month after that, in Midnight in the Garden of Good...

00:55I make really hard titles in my movies.

00:57That's a hard one.

00:58That's a tongue twister.

00:59Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil People.

01:01And I thought to myself, someday, somehow, I'm going to work with this actor in not one,

01:08but two projects in which he will play a pirate who gets up to shenanigans with a bunch of

01:12runaway children, whether it's in Neverland or in a galaxy far, far away.

01:16But okay, so I wasn't actually thinking that far ahead, but when the time came to collaborate

01:22with Jude, I looked back at my own history of watching him on the big screen and realized

01:28how wonderful and rare it is to see an actor and an artist chart their own path before

01:34our eyes.

01:35I've often been asked what's it like to work with Jude Law, and the answer is right there

01:39in his body of work.

01:41You can look at the films he's made and see the curiosity and conviction and care that

01:45he brings to each part writ large across his career as a whole, whether it's Existins,

01:51The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, Sky Captain, The Holiday, Grand Budapest Hotel,

01:56or The Nest.

01:57And if anyone has not seen The Nest, we should just pause the ceremony right now, everyone

02:03go home and watch it, and I'll wait, we'll wait here.

02:06The Nest is incredible, so yes, go see it.

02:10But the fact that Jude learned to sword fight with his left hand when he played Captain

02:16Hook for me is indicative of how up for a challenge he is.

02:19He never does the same thing twice.

02:21He never goes for the easy choice or the safe bets.

02:24He approaches his work with humility and kindness, and he commits to a degree that would be daunting

02:30if it weren't so inspiring.

02:32And on top of all of that...

02:33Scientology is a cause!

02:34Scientology is a cause!

02:35Yes.

02:36That was the next thing.

02:37That was the next thing I was going to say.

02:38How did he get a copy of my speech?

03:07I don't have anything, I'm done.

03:13The fact that Jude learned to sword fight with his left hand when he played Captain

03:17Hook for me is indicative of how up for a challenge he is.

03:20He commits to a degree that would be daunting if it weren't so inspiring, and he keeps getting

03:24better and better and better.

03:27Early on I told Jude that I generally like to do seven takes, which in any normal circumstance

03:32is plenty.

03:34With Jude it was very hard to stop because I knew that if I would just do one more, he

03:39would just find some new bit of nuance, illuminate some new layer that I could never have dreamed

03:44of, and I was just always so entertained.

03:48I learned more about my own projects, my own movies, watching Jude perform these words

03:54that we had written on the page.

03:55So Jude, I apologize for all those times we went past take seven, but you brought this

03:59on yourself.

04:02We had so much fun.

04:03It was nothing but fun.

04:04I have so many stories I could tell from set, but one of the things that's resonated with

04:08me the most is Jude's generosity.

04:13As I mentioned, we've done two projects that involve large casts of children, and sometimes

04:18in between takes I'd be changing a lens or moving the camera, and I'd see him with the

04:22kids playing games, rehearsing the scene, and gently helping them find their way.

04:28Witnessing those moments was a gift to them, certainly, for they were all better actors

04:32and will be better people for it, but it's to me, too, because it was a reminder of how

04:37if we're lucky enough to spend our lives making movies, then the measure of a life well-lived

04:42is the people we make those movies with.

04:44And if I got to work with Jude on every movie I make, that would be a life well-lived indeed,

04:48but since I can't, I'm grateful that he likes to work as much as he does, because if I'm

04:53not working with him, I can rest easy knowing that I'll get to keep watching him.

04:58So thank you.

04:59Congratulations.

05:02Thank you so much.

05:03Of course.

05:04And now I will leave you.

05:05Oh, just stand?

05:06Yeah.

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