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Ralph Fiennes — Oscar nominee, Voldemort player, tricky name haver — is new to this whole Wes Anderson thing. In a filmic environment filled with close relationships and recurring players, Fiennes is the new kid, the talent tapped by Anderson as the fresh face to mix in with his regular collaborators.
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00:06what in your eyes makes a gentleman and do you think that question even matters today
00:12would be lovely if it did matter I mean I think it's about good manners and my mum always said
00:17good manners is simply thinking about other people Wes is a gentleman yes I was going to
00:24ask you know you've worked with some of the greatest directors ever what makes him stand
00:30out as an auteur he has an adult's love of the thing that has childish simplicity in it I don't
00:39mean childish in that it's dim or immature I mean there's in the in the child's expression of
00:46something there's something very pure and open and a child's curiosity is something very beautiful
00:52and I think Wes has not detached from his own inner child many of the hotel's most valued and
00:58distinguished guests came for him I love you I love you she was dynamite in the sack by the way
01:04she was 84 I've had older in the last five plus years have you ever had a long interview that
01:11has not mentioned Voldemort yeah I think I have yeah a long interview I guess if they're long
01:19they might get to Voldemort but if they're short they often might not I mean I'd like to say I
01:33did
01:33because I gave so much attention and time to it and it was my own most people had to stick
01:38on mustaches
01:40um but I would like to give the award to Tony Revolori who just drew it on the pencil she's
01:47been
01:47murdered and you think I did it hey stop there's a lot of wonderful discussion about mentors being a
01:56mentor and being loyal do you think that that's important between different generations of actors
02:02today yes I do I think it's very important and what probably many professions to have a mentor
02:07someone an older person who can advise and give a good advice and encouragement and sometimes you
02:14know constructive criticism my mum would be a mentor for sure and then my first agent would be a mentor
02:22who's no longer here and I first started out there maybe two or three actors older actors they had a
02:31paternalistic caring interests I suppose in in me have you ever been questioned by the authorities yes
02:46on one occasion what I was arrested and tortured by the rebel militia after the desert uprising right
02:50well you know the drill then zip it

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