1 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: Brett Ratna, it is such a pleasure to have you 2 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: on the Aaron Mullan Show. First of all, congratulations incredible 3 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: premiere in Milania. Give me your reflections post. First of all, 4 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: last night in Washington, DC's. 5 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 2: Well last night, I have to I mean I literally 6 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 2: had to pinch myself when I walked into the Trump 7 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: Kennedy Center because it's probably the most spectacular venue in 8 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 2: the world. 9 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 3: To exhibit your film there, to show your. 10 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 2: Film to over two thousand people is probably the ultimate 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 2: way to see your movie. 12 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 3: I mean, the. 13 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 2: Screen was huge, the sound was unbelievable, I mean completely phenomenal, 14 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 2: and the energy in the room was you couldn't even imagine. 15 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 2: And having the First Lady and the President there, I 16 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 2: was in the box right next to them, and I 17 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 2: was able to lean forward and look over at their 18 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 2: faces with the light from the with the light from 19 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 2: the screen on their face, you know, so I saw 20 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 2: really the expressions and the details. I couldn't have been 21 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 2: more excited to be sitting next to the First Lady 22 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 2: and the President and to be experiencing this with the audience, 23 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 2: which I was very very surprised. 24 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 3: I mean, I kind of I know, I know, how. 25 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 2: To make people laugh, right, I know how to make 26 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 2: people feel something emotional and know how to tell a story. 27 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 2: But when you have two thousand people all laughing at 28 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 2: the same moment, it's not like, you know, a group 29 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 2: of people start to laugh and then it becomes contagious, 30 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 2: which can happen. Right, It was a simultaneous outburst of laughter, 31 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 2: you know, and a simultaneous outburst of clapping, and so 32 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 2: for me it was my heart was racing. I can 33 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 2: tell you for sure, sitting in the audience watching and 34 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 2: watching the film, Do. 35 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: You know what is so striking? Even just this first answer? 36 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: I would expect that level of enthusiasm and joy and 37 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: excitement from someone if this was their first project or 38 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: their first kick in the big league. You are world 39 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: class already, you have done so much. Why does this 40 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: mean so much? Do you think? 41 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 3: Or is this just you with every project? 42 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: Is it literally the most exciting thing you've ever done? 43 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 3: Well? 44 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 2: This is the ultimate, I have to say one for 45 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 2: multiple reasons. You know, yes, I'm not jaded quite yet, 46 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,119 Speaker 2: so I've I've you know, I still get joy out 47 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 2: of out of experiencing my finished product, and because think 48 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 2: about it, up until now, only myself, Millennia and Mark 49 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 2: Beckman and the other and and and you know, Fernando Sulisan, 50 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 2: the other producer, saw the film. 51 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 3: No one has seen the movie. 52 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 2: This has just been a very very small, tight knit 53 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 2: group of people that have been seen and watching this 54 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 2: movie along the way. So to see it in the 55 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 2: you know, we saw how To I'm all screening at 56 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 2: the White House with about fifty sixty people, and that 57 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 2: was spectacular just to be in that world watching my film, 58 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 2: But to be in a theater with two thousand people 59 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 2: and getting honest, true reactions out of them was ultimate. 60 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 2: I will say for two reasons to answer your question 61 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 2: why it was so meaningful to me. One is I'd 62 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 2: never done a documentary before, and I think this is 63 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 2: for me, the most expensive student film ever made. Because 64 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 2: I was learning as I was making it, I had 65 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 2: no idea, no clue as to what to expect, you know, 66 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 2: what the obstacles were, what the issues were, and there 67 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 2: were many. And because of the fact that we're working 68 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 2: with the Secret Service, their jobs are to protect the 69 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 2: First Lady and the President, and they didn't care if 70 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 2: I wasn't getting the shot. They were like, sorry, Brett, 71 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 2: you cannot block the entrance or the exit of this, 72 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 2: you know, with your equipment, So there was a lot 73 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 2: of obstacles which made it even more challenging. Sorry, my 74 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 2: hair's wet. That's why i keep brushing my fingers through 75 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 2: my hair. I'm not I'm trying. 76 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 3: To make it dry quickly. 77 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 2: So I I so the one that it was a 78 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 2: documentary and two, of course, that I'm allowed access to 79 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 2: this world that nobody ever has had access and I 80 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 2: don't know if they'll ever have it in the future, 81 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 2: because you know, the Trumps were so open to me 82 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 2: and really entrusted me with their lives really, I mean, 83 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 2: and with the process. 84 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 3: But the film really, as you know, is not about 85 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 3: Milania's life. It's about the role of the First Lady. 86 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 3: And what I gathered from. 87 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 2: It is just that how passionate she is. 88 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 3: As much as I am. 89 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 2: You say I'm passionate about filmmaking, she is as passionate 90 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 2: about about her role in servicing and serving. 91 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 3: The people as as First Lady. That's that's her real passion, 92 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 3: her true passion. 93 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 1: There was a couple of shots of the play down 94 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: the bottom shooting you up on the first level with 95 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: President Trump and there was a very passionate conversation that 96 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: you and he were having. Can you give us some 97 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,239 Speaker 1: insight into what you were talking about. 98 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 3: I can't reveal everything, but I will say it was 99 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 3: it was quite positive. 100 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 2: And I have not seen since I've got acquainted with 101 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 2: the President that him as enthusiastic about something. He is 102 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 2: so excited, I mean, beyond on on this movie. So 103 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 2: he's asking me a lot of questions about my feelings 104 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 2: about what I think. You know, how the marketing is, 105 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 2: how the promotion is. He was, he was, really, he's really, 106 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 2: he's interested. 107 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 3: He wants he wants the people, the world. He wants 108 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 3: people to see it. That's all he's not. 109 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 2: It's not about the box office or it's not about 110 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 2: you know, how successful it is or not. It's he 111 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 2: wants people to see it because he wants people to 112 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 2: take their own opinions. He and and really, you know, 113 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 2: Malaney is the Milania was like, let's get Brett all 114 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 2: the tools he needs to do the best job possible. 115 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 2: And that's why we partnered with Amazon because Amazon had, 116 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 2: you know, has incredible distribution. Now they bought MGM Studios, 117 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 2: they have global distribution, and it gives us the ability 118 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 2: to show this to a worldwide audience, and that's what 119 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 2: Malania cared about. She wanted to see you know, she 120 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 2: wanted to have the most amount of people to see 121 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 2: the movie enjoy it because she really wanted to show 122 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 2: the world what the role was. You know she when 123 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 2: she pitched me this original idea, I got really excited 124 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 2: about it because I thought she was going to come 125 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 2: with a life story about. 126 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 3: Her and you know, her childhood, and we were going 127 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 3: to show like old. 128 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 2: Footage, stock footage, her home home, you know, super eight 129 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 2: movies of her childhood, which would have been beautiful and great, 130 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 2: but this was a. 131 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 3: Much bigger story. When she told me, I'm giving you access. 132 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 2: You're gonna be on Air Force one with us, You're 133 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 2: going to be in the White House in the residents, 134 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 2: I was like, Wow, this is going to be. 135 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 3: Really unique, really unique. Why you I have no idea? 136 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 3: I say that, I asked the question. 137 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:16,559 Speaker 2: I said, you know, Malania, there's a lot of great 138 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 2: documentary filmmakers I can rank. I can give you five 139 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 2: names of documentary filmmakers that I really look up to, 140 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 2: because it's a completely different craft and skill set making 141 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 2: a documentary. 142 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 3: In fact, now that I've done it. I think it's harder. 143 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 2: Than making a real movie because you know you're you're 144 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 2: creating the film as you're going. I mean usually you 145 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 2: do your homework, you do your research, you do your 146 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 2: you know your subject matter, and you evoke uh dialogue, 147 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 2: interesting storylines. You're creating it as you go. A movie 148 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 2: is really pre planned. The movie is created in the 149 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 2: pre production. This this this genre is created in the 150 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 2: post production. So it was not that it was scary. 151 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 2: I call it the most expensive student film ever made 152 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 2: because I was really learning. 153 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 3: As I was doing it. 154 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 2: And when you ask me why, you I think Melanie 155 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 2: is just such a compassionate person and really what she 156 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: wanted was and very thoughtful, and she thinks things through. 157 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 2: She's not by the cops. She's not like, oh, let's 158 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 2: go get Brett Ratner. He's a hit maker, Let's go 159 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 2: get Brett. She really wanted the film to be cinematic, 160 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 2: like playing in big movie theaters, in the big screen. 161 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 3: She knows that's the ultimate. Filmmakers believe that. 162 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 2: Also, we love streaming because it hits a wide audience worldwide, 163 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 2: but to have a movie playing the movie theaters where 164 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 2: an audience can be together, enjoy as an experience together. 165 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 3: There's nothing like it. And that's what we experienced last night. 166 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 2: Having two thousand people in the room from all walks 167 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 2: of life, from all parts of the world, watching this 168 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 2: film and laughing and reacting and gasping and feeling the 169 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 2: energy is really beautiful experience. 170 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 3: So I think to answer your question, she really. 171 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 2: I think she wanted me because I know that's what 172 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 2: I'm My expertise is in I would say, in giving 173 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 2: the theatrical experience, did you. 174 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: Ever feel awkward being around like if there were intimate moments? 175 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: How does that play out when you're doing a documentary? 176 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: How do you make yourself invisible? Essentially? 177 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think because we developed a trust very early on. 178 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 2: I think, say Milania, you know, figuratively let her hair down. 179 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 2: She wasn't worried at any moment that I was going 180 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 2: to capture a bad angle. 181 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 3: You know. 182 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 2: We walked through what I like to do, even with 183 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 2: movie stars is kind of walk through the language of 184 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 2: the film. 185 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 3: What is the rule book? Right? 186 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 2: So if an actor says, hey, Brett, I really like 187 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 2: this side of my face, they're not supposed to say that, right. 188 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 3: But sometimes if they're big stars. They're like, I'm better 189 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 3: on this side. I try my best. 190 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 2: It's not always possible, because on this side, this way 191 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,559 Speaker 2: might be you know, not look good either. So but 192 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 2: we set the rules, or I would say, you can 193 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 2: call them the boundaries. And when I go in knowing 194 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 2: you know where her strengths and weaknesses are, but what 195 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 2: she where she perceived them as, right, then I'm able 196 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 2: to kind of make her feel So when she's when 197 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 2: I showing her things, she's like, wow, rhtt really listened 198 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,080 Speaker 2: to me. Yeah, she didn't know if I was just 199 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 2: asking you the questions just to ask and be you know, 200 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 2: respectful or something. But when she saw the footage where 201 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 2: I don't usually show the actors my star, right, I 202 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 2: call Malaney and my star. 203 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 3: I don't usually. 204 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,079 Speaker 2: Show them the scenes till I finished the complete movie. 205 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 2: But I wanted to gain her trust, so as I 206 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 2: was shooting, I was assembling scenes for her, and when 207 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 2: she saw it, she was like, oh, and that's where 208 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 2: I think I gained her trust. 209 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 3: At that moment, she really. 210 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 2: Saw that I was really listening to her. 211 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 1: Who was easier to work with Milania or your two 212 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 1: stars from Rush Hour? 213 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 2: Oh God, I will tell you I tell people this 214 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 2: and I mean it. Milania is like working with uh. 215 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 2: It would imagine working with like Ingrid Bergman. She has 216 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 2: such she has such an old movie star quality. She 217 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 2: knows where the lighting, you know how the you know 218 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,199 Speaker 2: where the lighting is best, even though she's not trying 219 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 2: to be a director, but she really understands it. 220 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:47,719 Speaker 3: You know, for instance, in a. 221 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 2: Real movie, what we do for the actors when I 222 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 2: want them to when I block a scene and we 223 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 2: walked through with the scene, is I then put tape 224 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 2: on the floor and I put tape because that's where 225 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 2: the moment that I want them to hit. On a documentary, 226 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 2: there's no mark. There was marks I was hoping they 227 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 2: would hit. But you got to be able to improvise. 228 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 2: You got to be quick on your feet, you got 229 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 2: to capture it as she moves. But she was very 230 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 2: conscientious and conscious of the lighting of the camera at 231 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 2: all times if she was focused on something like I'll 232 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 2: just give you an example. During the there's a scene 233 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 2: in the movie at Arlington Cemetery where there's a funeral, 234 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 2: not a funeral. 235 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 3: But a I'm sorry, aam. 236 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 2: There's a scene in Arlington Cemetery where they're paying respects 237 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 2: to the fallen soldiers. And it was raining, and she 238 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 2: was holding an umbrella. Now, when you hold an umbrella 239 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 2: too low, it casts a shadow on you. So I 240 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 2: just did this in the bat I was weigh in 241 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 2: the distance and I just did this. She saw me 242 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 2: out of the corner of her eye and just raise 243 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 2: the umbrella two or three inches. 244 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: Wow. 245 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 3: And she still was in the moment. She was not disrespectful. 246 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,439 Speaker 2: She's still focused on but I couldn't get there was 247 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 2: no shot unless we raised the umbrella. 248 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 3: So she was aware. 249 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:13,559 Speaker 2: She was always aware of me as her director, and 250 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:15,680 Speaker 2: she wanted to make sure that, you know, she kept 251 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 2: her eyes on me and whatever she was doing without 252 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 2: not having to look at me, but always kind of 253 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 2: I was always in her what it was. Really I 254 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 2: made it easier for her because I was always trying 255 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 2: to be in. 256 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 3: Her eyeline in a real movie. 257 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 2: In a real movie, I don't want to be in 258 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 2: the actor's eyeline because you want the actor to be 259 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,119 Speaker 2: in the moment and be But for this it's real life, 260 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 2: and I know that she can concentrate on what she's 261 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 2: doing and actually have a view of me. So if 262 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 2: there's something wrong, I could give her some kind of signal. Now, 263 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 2: we didn't go through the signals, you know, we weren't. 264 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:52,319 Speaker 2: It was like, okay, up, down, left, right. I wasn't 265 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 2: giving her, Yeah, I wasn't giving her signals. I just 266 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 2: went like this, and she got it. And she's just 267 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 2: two inches just raised it so so she was really. 268 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 2: Like I said, working with her was like working with 269 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 2: an old, legendary movie star that really understood had had 270 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,199 Speaker 2: so many. When I say old, it's because somebody. These 271 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:18,079 Speaker 2: actors that have done a hundred movies, the younger actors 272 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 2: that I work with, I got to put a piece 273 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 2: of tape down. You know, Jackie Chan I'll say, you know, 274 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 2: I have a fifty millimeter lens, and he'll know where 275 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 2: he's out of focus. That's how much experienced Jackie does. 276 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 2: But Jackie's been making movies. 277 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 3: Longer than I've been alive. Right. 278 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 2: But it's usually the legendary, the movie stars who have 279 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 2: done like a hundred movies that hit their marks. 280 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 3: They don't even have to think about it. It's like 281 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 3: second nature. 282 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 2: But Malania is like that, she's never even done a movie, 283 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 2: and she knows that the light is better instead of here, 284 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 2: it's better like this. You see, she just has her 285 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 2: own under she has a spatial understanding, a a understanding 286 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 2: of lighting. She's so specific in details about you know 287 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 2: what she likes and what she doesn't like. I don't 288 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 2: always know what I like, but I know what I 289 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 2: don't like, and she knows what she likes, and she 290 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 2: knows what she doesn't like. She's even more specific about 291 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 2: about things. And it's incredible working with someone. It's a 292 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 2: great collaboration. So I feel that the movie is as 293 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 2: good as it is because of the fact that we 294 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 2: have that unspoken understanding between us. 295 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: Are you nervous about how this movie will go? And 296 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: I assume that's a permanent for anyone who creates something. 297 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: But when you've got so many people with Trump derangement 298 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: syndrome and of the likes who will just associate her 299 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: with him, not like him, and almost out of protest 300 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: not go, does that worry you? How do you feel 301 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: about how it will go? 302 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 2: You know, commercially, you know, I ready feel that I've 303 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 2: succeeded because just the fact that I'd made this movie collaboration, 304 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 2: which films in history have not always performed when they're 305 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 2: were released to the world. 306 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 3: But over time. 307 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 2: I mean, I remember films that I loved when I 308 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 2: was a kid, and I didn't have an understanding of 309 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 2: box office or how a movie did in the world 310 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 2: out there, and I just loved the movie. 311 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 3: I was a kid. I saw the movie and I 312 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 3: loved it. 313 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 2: And many years later I found out that that movie, 314 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 2: I think it was the movie Scarface with al Pacino. 315 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 2: You know, it bombed at the box office from what 316 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 2: I learned later, and it was like one of my 317 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 2: favorite movies. And then it became an iconic film as 318 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 2: it was introduced to generations and deca over decades, it 319 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 2: became even more and more and more iconic as generations 320 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 2: of people discovered it. So I'm hoping that the film 321 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 2: will stand the test of time. My goal is to 322 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 2: have this film inspire future presidents and first ladies because 323 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 2: I feel that I've really, if I've done anything, I've 324 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 2: kind of reinvent to the genre. I've done a movie 325 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,919 Speaker 2: that's not quite a documentary, not quite a film, but 326 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 2: it kind of it's for a communal experience, so it's 327 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 2: but it belongs in theaters. So most documentaries, you know, 328 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 2: they're they're here nor there. They could just they just 329 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,199 Speaker 2: live on their own. This is another This is a 330 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 2: movie going experiences almost like it's almost like a ride, 331 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 2: you know, going on a ride in an amusement park. You've 332 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,719 Speaker 2: got to just get on the ride and experience it. 333 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 2: You can't explain it. You can, yeah, you can watch 334 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 2: it later when it comes out on streaming and be 335 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 2: on the couch with your family and enjoy it. 336 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 3: But the experience is to go to the theater and. 337 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:41,439 Speaker 2: Enjoy it with a communal experience with a group of 338 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 2: people that will that will feed into the energy of 339 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 2: what we're giving you on the screen. 340 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 3: So I'm very proud of what I've done. 341 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 2: And like I said, my real hope is that future 342 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 2: president's Democrat or Republican watch this movie, watch this movie 343 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:01,959 Speaker 2: and go we got to top that. 344 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 3: We got to top that. 345 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 1: It's like an induction or something that they place them 346 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: before they take the job. 347 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 2: Because what's groundbreaking is that, you know, Milania and the 348 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 2: President allowing me to do this film has opened up 349 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 2: the doors and into something that is unique and special, 350 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:25,919 Speaker 2: I believe, and now it's going to be almost like 351 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 2: a challenge to the future leaders of the United States. 352 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: Last question, this headline the movie is Milania that the 353 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: comeback is Brett. I'd love to know how you feel 354 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: off the back twenty seventeen accusations against you, all of 355 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: which you deny. Did you ever think that you might 356 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 1: not work again? And how surreal you are hobnobbing with 357 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: the president. Did you have moments where you were terrified 358 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 1: that it might be the end for you? And how 359 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,919 Speaker 1: does it feel to now know definitively that it is not. 360 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:11,199 Speaker 2: I'm a total optimist. I'm pathologically positive. I think you 361 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 2: know me personally, so I think you've seen that, yes, 362 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 2: and I've never I know who I am, what I've 363 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 2: done and what I haven't done. So if a group 364 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 2: of people want to want to, you know, hold me back, 365 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 2: that's their problem. My thing is I just move forward. 366 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,360 Speaker 2: I don't think about the past. I don't dwell in it, 367 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,239 Speaker 2: I don't worry about it. I always know. I know 368 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 2: my passion and my dreams are always about just making films. 369 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 2: And if I didn't do that, I probably have to 370 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 2: work at McDonald's. So it didn't get to that point 371 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,919 Speaker 2: where I had because I don't know how to do 372 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 2: anything else. Really, this is what I'm really good at. 373 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 2: This is what I love. This is what drives me. 374 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,640 Speaker 2: But it's really what the skill set of making movies 375 00:19:55,760 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 2: is is storytelling. I'm a storyteller, so if i'm I 376 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 2: get as much joy sitting around a Shabbat dinner table 377 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 2: with you and a bunch of friends telling a story 378 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 2: that drives me. But if I could do it in 379 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 2: a documentary, if I could do it in a magazine 380 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,439 Speaker 2: article I write, if I could do it in any 381 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 2: format it taking still fit photographs. 382 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 3: You could tell a story with a still image, not 383 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 3: just It doesn't have to be motion. So I was fine. 384 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 2: I found myself over you know, the past eight years, 385 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:34,400 Speaker 2: getting satisfaction or joy out of telling stories, but simple stories. 386 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 3: It didn't have to be big blockbuster stories. 387 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 2: I was still getting satisfaction from that and a lot 388 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 2: of joy out of it. 389 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 3: And this and the first Lady. 390 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 2: Just in my religion, there's something called bascher which means 391 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:47,120 Speaker 2: meant to be. 392 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 3: And my grandmother was a. 393 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 2: Democrat and the biggest fan of Trump of all time, 394 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 2: like in his first administration, and Milania just loved them 395 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 2: so much. My grandfather was a republic and I grew 396 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 2: up in Hollywood, so I was, you know, I was, 397 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 2: I was with the Hollywood people. But but my grandmother 398 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 2: had a love and obsession and I even I remember 399 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, I ordered online an autographed picture for 400 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 2: my grandma a gift, you know, and it's you know, 401 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 2: I think it was a fake thing. 402 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 3: I don't know. 403 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 2: It was a picture of the president and he signed 404 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 2: it with a signature it was like gold ink and 405 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:31,919 Speaker 2: it said, you know, Fanita, I love you because you 406 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,199 Speaker 2: have a because you have a great grandson. You know, 407 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 2: you have a great grandson. You know, I think, yeah, 408 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 2: so so. But she loved it, and she chaerish and 409 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 2: she framed it. She put it like almost next to 410 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 2: her bed, like she would look at it every day. 411 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 2: And she would say, you're just like Donald Trump, Brett. 412 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 2: You never drank alcohol, You never smoked a cigarette, you 413 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 2: never had a drug. You and Donald a our kindred spirits. 414 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 2: She would say this to me, and and I was 415 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 2: very moved when I'm at Milania when she told me 416 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,959 Speaker 2: about the passing of her mother and how close she 417 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,880 Speaker 2: was to her. And sorry, I'm choking up a little bit, 418 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 2: but my grandma passed away and I knew that she 419 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 2: she she always wanted the best for me. 420 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 3: You know, she always wanted the best for me. 421 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 2: And I said to Milania when we first met, actually 422 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 2: when I saw the president, I said, you know that 423 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 2: bullet missing you was it was a was a a 424 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 2: a a an. 425 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 3: Intervention from from a higher power. 426 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,719 Speaker 2: It was you know, it was it was something that 427 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 2: is just a miracle, right And and I said, do 428 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 2: you know what my miracle was? I said, your wife 429 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 2: picking me to direct this documentary. And I said, but 430 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,199 Speaker 2: but I told Milani, I said, you know, and I 431 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 2: swear it probably could have lost me the job because 432 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,199 Speaker 2: she was like, this guy's nuts, you know, like and 433 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 2: I said, Malani, I want to just tell you one thing. 434 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 2: This is all my way out. We finished the meeting. 435 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 2: We had a great meeting. I said, Milania, my grandmother 436 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 2: up in heaven because she passed away a few years ago, 437 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 2: met your mom and went to her and said, I 438 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:12,359 Speaker 2: have a gift for your daughter. Introduced her to my grandson, 439 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 2: and they are going to be make a great team. 440 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 3: And she's like, oh, probably so, you know. 441 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 2: But I thought for a minute she was gonna be like, 442 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:22,639 Speaker 2: what the hell is he talking about? 443 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 3: But she's a spiritual person. 444 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 2: She you know, I don't know, I don't know, you know, 445 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 2: I know she was very very close to her mom, 446 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 2: and I was very very close to my grandma. And 447 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 2: it's a beautiful you know, it's it's wish fulfillment, right. 448 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 2: We wish and hope that things can happen that way. 449 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 2: And whether it was an accident or not or even 450 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 2: you know, Mark Beckman of course mentioned me to the 451 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 2: First Lady, and I think she knew my movies and 452 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 2: she liked them. But regardless, I'd like to believe also 453 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 2: that my grandma had something some small part of it 454 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 2: with her mom. They concocted something up up in heaven 455 00:23:55,640 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 2: together and and no, it was this one of the 456 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 2: greatest experiences. 457 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 3: And I and I urge people, I'm i'm, you. 458 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,640 Speaker 2: Know, to to go to the movie theater to see 459 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 2: this film because it's going to be a completely different 460 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 2: experience than watching it on television. And I promise you 461 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 2: don't have to be a Republican or on the right 462 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 2: side of things. 463 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 3: To to enjoy this movie. 464 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 2: This is a movie specifically about the role of the 465 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 2: First Lady. 466 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 3: If if you don't like the First. 467 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 2: Family for whatever reason, and you you you can't even 468 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:38,919 Speaker 2: bear it, just replace Milania with with Eleanor Roosevelt. And 469 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 2: just see protect picture. Eleanor Roosevelt is in this film, 470 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 2: and she's taking you through her her her role. And 471 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 2: and last thing I want to say really is that 472 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 2: I what I'm proudest of in the film is really 473 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 2: the fact that the the first Lady, and and the 474 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 2: and potus they have such respect and admiration for each other, 475 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 2: and the president has the utmost respect for his wife. 476 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 3: I mean, it is so admirable and such. 477 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 2: A a honor to to be there, to witness this, 478 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,640 Speaker 2: and to be able to capture this in history. 479 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,120 Speaker 3: And and you know, it kills all the noise. 480 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 2: It's all noise about oh whatever, they whatever they say, 481 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 2: that's that's not true. This is that you can't deny 482 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 2: what you're seeing on screen. Nothing was I was just 483 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,360 Speaker 2: following them. I was not you know, they weren't acting 484 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 2: for the camera. They were working. They were working, and 485 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 2: I was with them, and I and I, you know, 486 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,479 Speaker 2: Malanie wasn't telling me what to shoot. Okay, brat at 487 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 2: this moment, I'm going to reach down and grab his 488 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,959 Speaker 2: hand or he's or touch his the bat his you know, 489 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 2: during the inauguration. 490 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:49,400 Speaker 3: Being proud of him I'm gonna put my. 491 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,199 Speaker 2: Hand on his back and and and you know she 492 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 2: wasn't telling me that I was seeing that with my 493 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 2: eyes and then I would guide the camera to that place. 494 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 2: So I'm very proud of what we captured, and and 495 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 2: I'm very grateful to Millennia and her husband for allowing 496 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 2: me the access that they granted me. 497 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 3: And I hope people enjoy the film. 498 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 1: Congratulations. I'm sure your grandma would be immensely proud, and 499 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 1: I can't wait for the world to say it. It's 500 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:14,959 Speaker 1: utterly brilliant. 501 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having of course great talking 502 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 2: and great seeing you as always. 503 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 3: Well. 504 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, you I mean, if you haven't already 505 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: gone online to buy these tickets, you should be. And 506 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 1: by the way, no commercial deals done here. I get 507 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: nothing out of you all going to watch this documentary, 508 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: this movie, except for the joy that I know you 509 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:42,919 Speaker 1: will derive from watching this thirtieth it is released globally 510 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: worldwide the thirtieth of January