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00:00Thank you for your attention.
01:01Oh, you look absolutely stunning. I'm loving the neck piece. Thank you. Loewe has it going on. Loewe, I love
01:08it. Listen, congratulations on this. Thank you. What an incredible film. Thanks. Talk to me about the violin. Have you
01:15seen it? Yes. Oh, good. A lot of people have it. I know. A lot of people are watching it
01:20tonight. I am coming in to watch it again though. You are? Yeah, because it's that good. And the stage
01:23too. Do you know what I mean? With the sound. How was it stepping into the world of classical music?
01:28Oh my God, I was intimidated. But something people
01:29don't know about me is that I think I won a Grammy once. I was in, when I was in
01:34eighth grade, I was like in, my choir, my chorus won a Grammy for best choral performance in the SF,
01:43for the SF Symphony Mahler number eight. So I think like low key, this is my world. I don't have
01:49a Grammy, but someone does.
01:51Maybe you went after this. Yeah, maybe someone will send me one, make sure that happens. But no, so I
01:55like, I feel like I've always really felt connected to choral music, but that's different. But I grew up reading
02:02music and learning to sight read there. And then obviously my life took me to other places. But it's been
02:08such a beautiful return to it. I feel like this film is so sweeping and beautiful. And the score is
02:14really, I mean, I think honestly the idea that the rule about filmmaking that we don't really talk about is
02:19that there's a composer for each other.
02:21film. And I feel like Tony kind of questioned that idea and broke the mold of that. And it kind
02:26of feels like a real inspiring move to like what other rules can be broken to honor what the film
02:33needs. So it's been a real joy. All I had to learn was happy birthday though. So I got out
02:38lucky.
02:39I was a fellow rule breaker. Keep rating the rules. I love it. You look so beautiful. Lovely to meet
02:44you. Congratulations. Thank you.
02:46I'm loving this pinstripe. I love you.
02:49It was made for me because Pedro obviously called me a Scottish journalist at one point and it became a
02:55whole internet thing.
02:56So as you can tell, I'm a big fan of him. Big fan of your work as well. Tell me,
03:00why did you want to take on the world of classical music?
03:03Why did I want? Why did you want to take it on and tell the story?
03:06Well, I wanted to be a musician really badly when I was, yeah, for a long time. And then I
03:12gave it up and went in the movie business and put it away for a long time.
03:16When we came back, when I started directing, I was like, oh my God. And I love the scoring process.
03:20And I had a great mentor in James Newton Howard. We did three huge scores together on the stage that's
03:25in the movie.
03:26When we came back to do Rogue One with Michael Giacchino, it was like a 120-piece orchestra every day
03:34and all this deadlines and craziness.
03:38And I was like, God, there has to be a movie here. Why hasn't anybody done a movie here? So,
03:42I mean, it started there.
03:44When you say you wanted to be a musician, anything in particular?
03:46I was a rock and roll.
03:48Rock and roll. I love rock and roll. Do I have a feeling you were a rock and roll person?
03:51Because I'm also a rock and roll person.
03:52No, I mean, you know, I thought I'll be a studio musician at one point. And I went to L
03:57.A. and realized I was not a studio musician.
04:00Was it playing instruments or did you want to be a frontman?
04:04I ended up, I was very much hired gun for a long time. And then later on, I moved to
04:11New York and I did have my own band.
04:12Yes, I did. I did. As I was transitioning into writing, I did have my own band for a while.
04:17I met you those for the days.
04:18No, I don't know.
04:20Oh, not really. You put Pedro through his pieces in this. I mean, learning the cello, that would just blow
04:25my mind.
04:26I couldn't never, like, I'm the same as you, I could never learn to play an instrument. I'm just going
04:30to have it in me.
04:31Was there any point when you were making this movie and you were like, what are we putting this done
04:35through?
04:37Oh, it was a gamble right from the start. I mean, you just, you don't know. You just have to,
04:41like, say,
04:42there's so many things in movie making where you just have to go for it, you know?
04:45And so we had all the resources. We had the teachers. We had him, a willing student. We had the
04:51right facility. We had enough time.
04:54We had to repair very carefully. We couldn't have him learn anything that we weren't going to use.
05:02Let's put it that way. So it's very targeted learning. And the trick is, it's going to sound like shit.
05:12It doesn't matter how it sounds. It's how it looks. And once everybody could stop listening to what they were
05:20doing
05:20and start watching what they were doing, our life's got a lot easier.
05:25Well, listen, you look like a rock star tonight.
05:27Oh, my God. Thank you.
05:28Forever a rock star.
05:29All right, all right.
05:29I love the suit. Lovely to meet you.
05:31Elder, elder rock star.
05:31No, but that's the best type of rock stars.
05:33I guess so, right, yeah.
05:33Old school rock and roll. They don't make them like that anymore. Do you know what I mean?
05:36Lovely to meet you. Thank you so much.
05:38Hello, Diva. You look so beautiful.
05:40I love the tailoring.
05:43Listen, as someone who has a very, very talented position, what was it like seeing this film come to life?
05:49This means so much to me.
05:51I think that this part of the industry is, like, very underappreciated.
05:56Music is a huge part of, like, the moviegoing experience, and a lot of times you forget that music's even
06:00playing.
06:01But I guarantee you, if you watch that same movie without music, it would not be a good experience.
06:06And I love orchestras. I love the scoring world.
06:10I love all the players that were in the movie so much.
06:13And, like, the fact that this will be immortalized on screen forever is amazing.
06:19And also, like, I'm 25.
06:20Like, none of my...
06:21You're 25?
06:21I'm 25.
06:22And you've achieved so much.
06:23I mean, now I feel such lack.
06:26I should be doing a lot more to believe.
06:27You know what's funny?
06:28Because I always feel like I'm running out of time.
06:30Isn't that funny?
06:30No, you're not.
06:31You're really not.
06:32I'm nearly 10 years your senior, so trust me, you're not.
06:35Well, look at us.
06:36We're both here.
06:37Look at us.
06:37We're both here.
06:40But none of my friends know anything about what it takes to write music for a movie.
06:45I don't even know if they've ever seen an orchestra play.
06:47And I think it's, like, the center of the universe when you're on one of those stages
06:51and, like, you're surrounded by history and you're watching, like,
06:54100 of the greatest musicians on earth sight-read music
06:57and create something magical that will be immortalized in film forever.
07:00So, like, I don't know.
07:02When that first shot in the movie, like, lifts up and you see the whole Sony stage, I cry.
07:07And I just heard you're writing musicals.
07:09You've got a show coming up.
07:10I mean, do you ever sleep?
07:12Right now?
07:13I'm a little tired.
07:15I'm a little tired right now.
07:16But, like, next week, maybe I'll feel better.
07:18It's exciting, though, right?
07:20I mean, you look forward to the show.
07:21Yeah, no, I'm so excited.
07:22I've only seen the movie fully and done one time.
07:26So, I'm really excited.
07:27And your show that's coming up.
07:28Oh, my show tomorrow.
07:28Yeah, no, I'm really excited about that.
07:30I'm, like, plug the show, girl.
07:31Yeah, no, no, no.
07:32I would plug it, but it's, like, oversold now, which is great.
07:35Which is great for me.
07:36I don't need it.
07:37But if you're in L.A.
07:38and you want to come to my show in L.A., you should come.
07:41Well, I can't wait to see what musicals you write
07:42because you're a musical genius.
07:44Oh, thanks.
07:44Lovely to meet you.
07:44And you're achieving so much.
07:46So, please don't ever think you're not.
07:47Also, your shirt is fantastic.
07:48Thank you so much.
07:48Someone made it for me.
07:50That's fabulous.
07:51Perfect.
07:52Like, could not be better.
07:53Lots of love.
07:54Hi, again.
07:55How are you?
07:57How are you?
07:57I saw your jacket like this.
07:59Oh, there we go.
08:00Oh, of course.
08:01We're always mirroring one another.
08:03Oh, listen.
08:04You are a fashion icon.
08:05The turtlenecks, I'm so glad that you've accepted
08:07that you suit them.
08:08Oh, really?
08:09Yeah.
08:11Listen, I can't believe you learned to play the cello in this.
08:13Is there anything that you can't do?
08:15There is so much that I can't do that I have to be forced into, you know, the kind of
08:24arduous
08:25process of getting ready for a movie like this to actually learn anything new.
08:28I have not developed any new skills for many, many years.
08:32But is that the joy of being an actor, that you get to delve into these worlds and learn
08:36these skills that you probably would never have learned, right?
08:39Yeah.
08:40I mean, it's a total joy.
08:41It's also very terrifying because I think more than anything, it was really important
08:47to me that Tony make the movie, achieve the movie that he set out to make.
08:52And such a central aspect of that was the technical achievement of playing the cello convincingly.
08:59And so I'd never been so afraid.
09:03I've been nervous about other jobs and the physical demands of it or the physical emotional
09:10demands, but it was nothing like this.
09:13And I guess that did surprise me a little bit.
09:19Once I held the cello, I felt good.
09:22And then once I started to learn everything else that was going to come with it to actually
09:25make it sound and make it look like somebody who is a master of the form, I was shitting
09:32myself from start to finish.
09:34Well, you absolutely smashed it.
09:36Also, this was for you because you called me a Scottish journalist.
09:39And I was like, that was a reach because I'm a yapper at best.
09:42So thank you.
09:43You are a Scottish journalist.
09:44Well, yeah.
09:45Okay.
09:45Yeah.
09:46Just someone that gets to talk for love.
09:47And journalist is quite, it's like a serious job.
09:49You're a journalist.
09:50Very serious journalist.
09:51I gotcha.
09:52A very serious journalist.
09:54Very serious Scottish journalist.
09:55There you go.
09:56I adore you.
09:58Nice to see you.
09:58You too.
09:59Hi, Pedro.
09:59This movie is a celebration of music.
10:01So I wonder, what is your favorite song and why?
10:03My favorite song, and I'm sorry to be so redundant, I say it all the time, it is Purple Rain
10:10by Prince.
10:12And Pedro, I have to ask, you know, you obviously learn how to play cello.
10:16How challenging was that?
10:17I mean, compared to other challenges that you faced all your career, where is it?
10:21It's the most challenging one that I've ever had.
10:23Wow.
10:23I would choose fighting the mountain in Game of Thrones over learning how to play the cello convincingly.
10:31I would rather, you know, be, I don't know, tossed off of a cliff with Nicolas Cage than have to
10:36learn how to play the cello.
10:37Although, now I'm in love with the instrument.
10:39I was in love with the sound, so maybe that was a good start.
10:42It was always my favorite instrument, sort of secretly.
10:46And it's really, really nice physical company, actually, you know?
10:49It's something that, like, the size of it and the kind of embrace that it is to have a cello
10:56is an incredible comfort.
10:58But, boy, sometimes it's not on your side when you want to make it sing.
11:02And being a part of the project.
11:03I'm so sorry, we've got to run in.
11:05Thank you so much for the heading.