Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Roger Federer himself, Welcome to
Speaker 1: the Daily Show. It is so good to have you
Speaker 1: here because I mean you you have, for over two
Speaker 1: decades now in many ways defined a sport. You've defined
Speaker 1: how people see it, You've defined how people try and
Speaker 1: play it. You are a move I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know if you ever think about how amazing that is.
Speaker 1: When people will say, they'll be like, I'm doing a
Speaker 1: Federer backhand, I'm doing it. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You've transcended the sports as well, because tennis for many
Speaker 1: people is this this thing that happens somewhere. Who plays it?
Speaker 1: And how do they play? You've become larger than life,
Speaker 1: and now it has all come to an end. Before
Speaker 1: we talk about the end, let's talk about what it
Speaker 1: was when you look back. No, I'm I want to
Speaker 1: talk about that when just when when you look back,
Speaker 1: did you know from the beginning, did you have an inking?
Speaker 1: Did you look in the mirror and go like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm going to switch this ship up? No? No, I
Speaker 1: did not know it was gonna turned out this good. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean in Switzerland, we don't dream this big, you know,
Speaker 1: we we hope to we hope to be good, but
Speaker 1: not a great. And and then sports it's probably skiing,
Speaker 1: and there's a bit football, a bit of ice hockey
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And then tennis was coming up,
Speaker 1: and thankfully we had an Olympic champion, Mark Rosse, and
Speaker 1: I need to him on the Olympics and tennis. And
Speaker 1: then we have Martina Hingis who also want the youth
Speaker 1: open up member then and they paved the way for
Speaker 1: me a little bit too, to show me that it
Speaker 1: was possible. And then yeah, people were saying I could
Speaker 1: be the next Pete Sampers, and I was talented and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But you feel like they always say that,
Speaker 1: you know at some point, and I never thought I
Speaker 1: was going to have this grade of a career. So
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more more exciting, more happy, and more
Speaker 1: proud of everything, and unfortunately has come to an end.
Speaker 1: But it's been great. It really has been great. It's
Speaker 1: been amazing, you know. You you talk about Pete Sampers,
Speaker 1: and I think about somebody like Pete, who who is
Speaker 1: a legend in the sports, you know, who do find
Speaker 1: so many aspects of the game. And he held the
Speaker 1: record for a very long time, and then you come
Speaker 1: into the sports, you eclipse his record in what six
Speaker 1: years it takes you, you know, and Pete would talk
Speaker 1: about how you know that he got sort of tired
Speaker 1: of the sports, and you know he was he was
Speaker 1: a champion, he was, but you had this drive and
Speaker 1: this class about you that that nobody understood. You're You're
Speaker 1: a multi generational talent as well, because the class that
Speaker 1: you came in with retired before you. The next class
Speaker 1: played with you, and you were still the champion, and
Speaker 1: now the class that is there now still goes. Roger
Speaker 1: Federer is one of the best competitors we've ever played against.
Speaker 1: You know, what do you think? I would love to
Speaker 1: know how you how you found that drive? How did
Speaker 1: you keep on going? What inspired you? Know when you
Speaker 1: had won it all? It's a it's a good question.
Speaker 1: And you know, when I was growing up, I had
Speaker 1: Michael Schumacher that I would look up to, who was
Speaker 1: at the top for so long Tiger Woods, same thing,
Speaker 1: and I always thought it's impossible to do that, you know,
Speaker 1: to stay at the top for so long and have
Speaker 1: that drive. Now people ask me, how did you do it?
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, it's normal. You just go out there.
Speaker 1: You do it again, and you try to win and again,
Speaker 1: and it's on and so you keep doing it, and
Speaker 1: everybody else would like to be in your shoes, right
Speaker 1: and and then you also have a duty too, in
Speaker 1: my mind, to represent the sport well and enjoy it
Speaker 1: while it lasts. And I really felt the guy squeezed
Speaker 1: out that lem until the last drop, and I tried
Speaker 1: my very best in the end, and it was it
Speaker 1: was incredible, And I needed the likes of Pete Samples,
Speaker 1: you know, to also show me how it is at
Speaker 1: the top. And it's it's tough, you know, but I
Speaker 1: feel like I made I had a lot of fun
Speaker 1: on the tour. It was not just about tennis. It
Speaker 1: was also going to nice dinners with friends. And I'm
Speaker 1: happy that I didn't take tennis almost that serious or
Speaker 1: that professional. Still had that bit of an amateur twist
Speaker 1: to it. A bit worried that every sport is going
Speaker 1: into such a professional direction, which I hope we don't
Speaker 1: lose the fun in it. Yeah, you you know, that's
Speaker 1: one of the biggest things that have struck me about
Speaker 1: you in meeting you as a human being. And many
Speaker 1: people will say this about you. You'll meet many athletes
Speaker 1: who have dominated the sport. The sport is their life.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like that for you. It feels like
Speaker 1: the sport is a huge part of your life. But
Speaker 1: Roger Federal still Roger Federer. You know, you're down to earth.
Speaker 1: You have fun, you meet people, you have conversations. You're
Speaker 1: living the life, and you're enjoying what the life comes with.
Speaker 1: In the sport, it inspires you in a different way.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like the whole sport has changed in
Speaker 1: that way? It has become like really meticulous and analytical. Yeah,
Speaker 1: more so more analytics in the game. Sports science is
Speaker 1: also coming in hard. Um. It's it's okay. Um, it's
Speaker 1: it's important, you know. And when you see somebody else
Speaker 1: doing something that works, well, you've got to kind of
Speaker 1: do it too, or at least try it. And then
Speaker 1: you go you follow them, you know, and I probably
Speaker 1: I did some of it for other players or for
Speaker 1: a lot of them, and now others are showing it
Speaker 1: how how it's done, you know. And of course we're
Speaker 1: living in a very statistic based world. We love our
Speaker 1: statistics that we love breaking records and who's the greatest
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So you you come out, it's
Speaker 1: just one Grand Slam or you're just well number one,
Speaker 1: And the first question, so how long you want to
Speaker 1: say well number one? Like what when you're gonna win
Speaker 1: the next Grand Slam? Like what's your next win? Instead
Speaker 1: of actually enjoying it. And it's a bit of a problem.
Speaker 1: I think we instead of enjoying it, we have to
Speaker 1: move on too quickly. And one Wimbledon victory would have
Speaker 1: been plenty for me and ended up going on and
Speaker 1: winning several, but there was several several It was good seven.
Speaker 1: I'd love to talk to you about that. When when
Speaker 1: people regard an athlete as the greatest of all time,
Speaker 1: oftentimes they're only referring to what the athlete has done,
Speaker 1: you know, in the field of play, on the court,
Speaker 1: you know, on the racetrack, whatever it may be. Every
Speaker 1: single human being who, even if they don't know you
Speaker 1: personally says Roger Federer is the greatest of all time,
Speaker 1: not just because of what he achieved in terms of numbers,
Speaker 1: but how he defined the sport. For instance, you had
Speaker 1: the record for a very long time twenty Grand slams,
Speaker 1: you know, then Ruffer comes along and beats that with
Speaker 1: twenty one, and then no that comes along and beats
Speaker 1: there with twenty two, and and yet when you talk
Speaker 1: to them, they say, Roger Federer is who we're aspiring
Speaker 1: to and he defines how we're trying to play it.
Speaker 1: So I'd love to know, you know, is it is
Speaker 1: it a little bit irritating that they're using you to
Speaker 1: beat your record or or does it struck does it
Speaker 1: strike you that these are your greatest competitors saying yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're still the pinnacle of what we're trying to be. No, no, no, Look,
Speaker 1: I feel very lucky to be that guy. And I
Speaker 1: know I've been every everything since they come and tour,
Speaker 1: I've been there, So I think it's a it's a
Speaker 1: great moment for them, you know, to now show who
Speaker 1: they are without that federal halo effect me being around
Speaker 1: and especially younger generation that we're not allowed to say
Speaker 1: I want to win the US Open because they were
Speaker 1: told that you can't say that because you know, no
Speaker 1: Back and Ratha and Roger we're all playing, so they
Speaker 1: are the ones that can say that you're not allowed
Speaker 1: to say that. But I think, you know, the the
Speaker 1: end was very emotional to be actually on such a
Speaker 1: great sort of a friendship really with with the guys
Speaker 1: at the very end of my career, after everything that
Speaker 1: we've gone through, brutal matches, great winds, tough losses, and
Speaker 1: at the end always having this camaraderie is amazing. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe just a little anecdote because maybe people don't know,
Speaker 1: but we shared the same locker room, we share the
Speaker 1: same restaurants, we usually get put in the same hotels,
Speaker 1: so we see each other all the time. And we
Speaker 1: even practiced together, you know, And that that's something I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people don't know. And when I
Speaker 1: found that out, it was one of the strangest ideas
Speaker 1: I had to wrap my head around. I don't think
Speaker 1: there are many sports with the greatest rivals practice with
Speaker 1: each other. I would go, like, you know, I think
Speaker 1: of like Konfu movies as a kid. I don't want
Speaker 1: you to know my my secrets. I don't want to
Speaker 1: know my trick, and you would hit with each other.
Speaker 1: That's why I ended up not practicing very much with
Speaker 1: Novack and Rougher anymore. Okay, okay, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Not so much with those guys. You would stand, for instance,
Speaker 1: with a lot of guys. Damn breaking my guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's a camaraderie that that you a chiefly co instance.
Speaker 1: Many were shocked, especially people who don't watch tennis to
Speaker 1: see when you know, when you were saying goodbye to
Speaker 1: the sports. So many people were sad because I think
Speaker 1: for many, myself included, we felt like we were robbed of.
Speaker 1: You know, the last few years, COVID robbed us of
Speaker 1: so much in our personal lives, you know, in societal life,
Speaker 1: but then also in moments like this, we got robbed
Speaker 1: of two years of Roger Federer playing the game. You know,
Speaker 1: it felt like your retirement came so early, and when
Speaker 1: you did say goodbye no to us, it did. It's
Speaker 1: just you know, for me, your knees are telling a
Speaker 1: different story. Hang on. But but then you know, there's
Speaker 1: this there's that amazing video of the players saying goodbye
Speaker 1: to you, and it's this clip of you and and
Speaker 1: Raphael Nadelt crying crying. You are crying, you are in tears,
Speaker 1: You're bawling together, and that was a special moment. I
Speaker 1: really think. I mean, this is a very unusual situation
Speaker 1: for us to be on the same team number one
Speaker 1: and so I think that changed the whole dynamics of
Speaker 1: my farewell if you want then, um My, my hope
Speaker 1: was I could play doubles with Rapha. So call him
Speaker 1: up after the US Open. And it was a very
Speaker 1: emotional phone call actually, because it was one of the
Speaker 1: first times I told somebody outside of my UM team
Speaker 1: and and family and I had to call him up
Speaker 1: and tell him, Rougha, just before you make any other plans,
Speaker 1: I would love you to be at the Labor Cup
Speaker 1: and play maybe one last doubles with me would be
Speaker 1: amazing because unfortunately my knee is not so good anymore.
Speaker 1: And I think it's the end, you know, And He's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, oh my god, Okay, yeah, I'll be there
Speaker 1: whatever it takes. I just, um, he's now become a father.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for him. And we were not we
Speaker 1: were not sure if he was gonna make it, you know,
Speaker 1: because of the baby. So um, it was one of
Speaker 1: the first times I had to tell that story and
Speaker 1: come to terms like the career is ending. So when
Speaker 1: he showed up and Novak was there, and Murray was there,
Speaker 1: and Beyond Board was there and everybody was there, as
Speaker 1: an amazing moment and then I knew it was going
Speaker 1: to be incredibly emotional. I've always cried a lot in
Speaker 1: victory and in defeat when I was younger, and I
Speaker 1: know why, but I do it. But I'm happy because
Speaker 1: I remember those moments even more so because of it.
Speaker 1: And then when it was all over and I had
Speaker 1: to take the mic, I knew it was going to
Speaker 1: be terrible for me, but I felt it felt like
Speaker 1: I did actually pretty good, I think, and I was
Speaker 1: so happy I was able to be there in Tennis
Speaker 1: close and not like this, because that was my in
Speaker 1: my vision, was going to be a beautiful horror show,
Speaker 1: you know, for me to be there with the mike
Speaker 1: in front of the in the light and tell everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, this is it. And it was amazing to
Speaker 1: do it in London too, where I had so much
Speaker 1: success and and Laby Cup was beautiful and rougher. They're
Speaker 1: holding my hand. Briefly people thought it was or I
Speaker 1: held his hand actually, but it was. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: You know, you're going to have and you you will
Speaker 1: always be synonymous with the sport that you you As
Speaker 1: I said, you you know you cannot separate Roger Federer
Speaker 1: from the sport itself now and and yet I was
Speaker 1: shocked to hear a story which I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was true or not. You know, I was like,
Speaker 1: Roger everyone at tennis, you cannot the name is synonymous
Speaker 1: with the sport. You kind of rudge. And then someone
Speaker 1: was like, well, you know that Roger couldn't get into
Speaker 1: Wimbledon recently. I was like, wait, wait, that's not possible.
Speaker 1: Is Roger federal? Is this? Is this a true? Is
Speaker 1: there even a semblars of truth? Uni? Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: I need to understand it was. It was actually two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. So I was in Tokyo um for our responsor,
Speaker 1: my sponsor Uniqloe, and I came back to Wimbledon, actually
Speaker 1: to London to come see a doctor for having a
Speaker 1: second opinion on my knee because my knee has been
Speaker 1: not great lately. And then I didn't want to tell
Speaker 1: Wimblon that I was going to maybe be there, and
Speaker 1: I didn't know if I was going to have time
Speaker 1: to go by the club because I was going to
Speaker 1: fly home to the family. So doctor appointment was done.
Speaker 1: Look on the watch, Okay, we got two hours to
Speaker 1: to kill, so what are we gonna do? Do we
Speaker 1: head to the airport, or let's quickly go have tea
Speaker 1: at Wimbledon. Of course, so let's go. Um, but I
Speaker 1: have not really been at Wimbledon when the tournament is
Speaker 1: not on. So okay. So I drive up to the
Speaker 1: eight um where usually guests come in, where let's say
Speaker 1: you would arrive and then you go up, and so
Speaker 1: I get out to tell my coach, who was with
Speaker 1: me at the time, Severn. I tell him. I quickly
Speaker 1: go out and speak to the security lady. You know,
Speaker 1: I got this, you know, and then I did not.
Speaker 1: So then I get out and I'm like, yes, hello, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm just was wondering how I can get into Wimbledon.
Speaker 1: Uh you know where? Where? Where's the door? Where's the gate?
Speaker 1: And she's yeah, yeah. Do you have a membership card?
Speaker 1: I'm like, uh, we have one? I don't because when
Speaker 1: you win Wimbledon you become a member automatically, yes, And
Speaker 1: I honestly I don't know about membership cards. They're probably
Speaker 1: at home somewhere and I've just been traveling, so I
Speaker 1: had no idea. So I'm like, no, I don't have
Speaker 1: my membership card, but I am a member. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: just wondering where I can get in, and she's yeah,
Speaker 1: but you have to be a member. So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be difficult here this one. So I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I am a member, and normally I am here, so
Speaker 1: I have to start again, right, So I tell her normally,
Speaker 1: when I'm here, i'm playing and there's loads of people
Speaker 1: and I come in in a different way. And now
Speaker 1: it's the first time i'm not here. I'm yeah, well
Speaker 1: the tournament is not on and I don't know where
Speaker 1: to get in. So I'm just asking you again, where
Speaker 1: can I get in. She's like, well, I'll decide, but
Speaker 1: you have to be a member. So I look at
Speaker 1: her one last time and I'm in a panic now
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm so sorry, and I couldn't believe. I
Speaker 1: still can't believe I say that because I still feel
Speaker 1: bad about it. And i'd look at her and it's like,
Speaker 1: I have won this tournament eight times, please believe me.
Speaker 1: I am a member, and where do I get in?
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, it was so so then so
Speaker 1: I got back in the car. My coach is like,
Speaker 1: oh good, where do we get in. I'm like, don't don't,
Speaker 1: don't talk it right. So I'm like, let's go up
Speaker 1: and around the gate. It's so. So then I go
Speaker 1: out and I go around on the other side. So
Speaker 1: I get out of the car and random person walks,
Speaker 1: you know, on the what it walk right, yeah, and said, oh,
Speaker 1: Mr Feder, my god, I can't believe you're here in Wimbledon.
Speaker 1: Can we take a self I'm like, yes, let's do.
Speaker 1: Let's take a picture. And the security and the security
Speaker 1: guards that are there, they're like, oh my god, Mr Feder,
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Do you have your membership card?
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I don't, but is it possible to
Speaker 1: get of course, We'll open the door, let me organize it.
Speaker 1: And I walk in and the chairman was there and everybody,
Speaker 1: and then I was having tea for an hour and
Speaker 1: I thought of going over to the other side and
Speaker 1: giving a wave that I was in, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: You would never do that, but it was you would
Speaker 1: never do that. It was terrible. I would never do that.
Speaker 1: You see. That's what I mean. That's that's that's Roger Federer.
Speaker 1: You you And when I said I want to wimblan
Speaker 1: eight times for a split second, I wasn't sure if
Speaker 1: it was eight anymore, because I was I thought it
Speaker 1: was a seven. Was it eight? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I said it because I never talked like this. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know what, I love that both of you
Speaker 1: in that situation because on your side, you never talked
Speaker 1: like that. You're never that person I've bumped. I've been
Speaker 1: with you in places where somebody for some reason doesn't
Speaker 1: recognize you and you don't respond as if they should recognize.
Speaker 1: You're not that person. But on herself, I believe she
Speaker 1: deserves a raise. She was gang. Yeah, like your membership cards,
Speaker 1: because I mean, you know, you know how it goes
Speaker 1: sometimes if you w where's the membership card? Where is
Speaker 1: your name? Where is your picture? And you don't have it?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I like that. It was good. It was good.
Speaker 1: You know what I've enjoyed about about knowing you is
Speaker 1: we have so many things in common. You you may
Speaker 1: not know this as an audience, but you know, like
Speaker 1: Roger and I have many things in common. We are
Speaker 1: we both we both half Swiss off South African. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we both speak multiple languages. We both played at
Speaker 1: the record holding. You know, I think it's a little
Speaker 1: hold we both played tennis, but we both play tennis.
Speaker 1: We do we do. Yeah, I guess the world record
Speaker 1: for the highest of tendance for the tennis match that
Speaker 1: we might still hold. Yeah. I mean I played for
Speaker 1: twenty plus years, right, but to break the record, you know,
Speaker 1: I need you needed help. Something would have happened without me.
Speaker 1: You know, we have between us twenty grands time titles.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, um, and you know in many ways, you know,
Speaker 1: you know we're both moving on to something different. And
Speaker 1: I'd love to know from your side, as as an
Speaker 1: athlete who has defined yourself as something for so long
Speaker 1: and if people have defined just one thing so long.
Speaker 1: You've talked about how how hard the idea of moving
Speaker 1: on has been, the idea of what you will do
Speaker 1: when tennis isn't your life. But I've noticed that you
Speaker 1: you've almost seamlessly slid into everything. You know, your your
Speaker 1: clothing is everywhere, your shoes, you know, like one of
Speaker 1: one of my one of my camera guys on team,
Speaker 1: he was telling me like, these are like walking on clouds.
Speaker 1: You know not what you and you've done everything exceptionally
Speaker 1: your philanthropy, all of the work you've done to help
Speaker 1: education in Africa. Roger Federer has excelled everything in life.
Speaker 1: What are you most excited about that won't be tennis relating?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm I feel a little bad at the
Speaker 1: moment because I mean, it's been super easy transition so far.
Speaker 1: I feel really good. I mean I might fall off
Speaker 1: the cliff tomorrow, who knows, but I feel really good.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, I've told a lot of people
Speaker 1: who have so many requests, you know, while I was
Speaker 1: still playing, like well, reach out to me when I'm retired.
Speaker 1: So they have, and so now we've had to say
Speaker 1: no in a thousand different messages ways, you know. Unfortunately
Speaker 1: no still not you know, so I feel bad about
Speaker 1: saying no, but I think I have to take the
Speaker 1: time to make the next move. Im anyway, still very busy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have four children and they mean everything
Speaker 1: to me. Twins twin boys that are eight and twin
Speaker 1: girls that are thirteen. So that needs to be my
Speaker 1: priority with my wonderful wife America, and we that's right,
Speaker 1: because it is amazing if you've met this really every
Speaker 1: step of the way. So um, no, I mean I'm
Speaker 1: really looking forward to what's next. I I mean, like
Speaker 1: you said, I have my philanthropy, I have my partners,
Speaker 1: my sponsors, I have my business and it's going super well.
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I want to see how I
Speaker 1: maybe stay involved in tennis in some shape before I'm
Speaker 1: not sure yet how it's going to go because there's
Speaker 1: not that many jobs if you want in tennis like
Speaker 1: it maybe in soccer or in golf. I feel like
Speaker 1: they have many more interesting. Yeah, we're either a coach
Speaker 1: or a commentator. Right. It's it's very solitary, it's very small. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'll have to see. But I will always be
Speaker 1: open to to mentor kids and do all that stuff.
Speaker 1: There is one thing that you're doing exceptionally right now,
Speaker 1: and that is being an ambassador for Swiss tourism. And
Speaker 1: if you've seen the ads, they're really amazing. No, there
Speaker 1: really are some some of the funniest ads. You know.
Speaker 1: You did one with Anne Hathaway that was pretty amazing,
Speaker 1: one with the Roy Robert de Niro was one of
Speaker 1: my favorites, you know, But but I was, I was.
Speaker 1: I was intrigued by this because I came to Swerland
Speaker 1: for the first time on my comedy tour. Roger reached out,
Speaker 1: which this is. This is the kind of person this,
Speaker 1: this man is. This is Roger Federer, the greatest, you know,
Speaker 1: tennis players ever lived, one of the greatest athletes of
Speaker 1: all time. And I get a call when I'm in Switzerland.
Speaker 1: He goes, I know you're here, would you like me too? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Would you like to go for lunch maybe and talk
Speaker 1: about Switzerland? Or would you can I show you around?
Speaker 1: Or kind of I'm like, can you like? It's so
Speaker 1: gracious and it's so unassuming, like it would like I
Speaker 1: would expect it for and be like, I know you're here,
Speaker 1: You're going with me? But no, Roger Ferres like, if
Speaker 1: you would like, maybe I can? You know? And it
Speaker 1: was amazing, it was And you're one of the best
Speaker 1: tour guides of tourism. No I learned from you. I
Speaker 1: put stuff on the show and and so I'd love
Speaker 1: to know those those ads were not nerve wracking, because
Speaker 1: you know, the good thing with the Robert den Era
Speaker 1: on one is that, I mean number one, I can't
Speaker 1: believe he actually did it, which in itself was a victory.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a huge fan. And and then he
Speaker 1: shot his first was during COVID and was like everyone
Speaker 1: on a on a call together. You know, I was
Speaker 1: on a video call, so he had has had done
Speaker 1: his before and then I could just act on what
Speaker 1: he did so and I obviously could do a hundred
Speaker 1: takes if I had to, and there was no pressure
Speaker 1: and he wasn't around, so but I agree. It was
Speaker 1: actually very creative and it was a good piece, especially
Speaker 1: his side. Me, I'm not not the best. But then
Speaker 1: but then Ann Hathaway, on the other hand, she was
Speaker 1: sitting next to me when I was doing the the
Speaker 1: ad and stress, Yes, that was very stressful because I
Speaker 1: hadn't the script had changed a lot of the times.
Speaker 1: And then I gave up because I knew Anne was
Speaker 1: doing her magic. And when I showed up, the director said,
Speaker 1: I usually shoot in one piece, and like, what do
Speaker 1: you mean in one piece, like the whole thing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: one take and then it goes like an action And
Speaker 1: literally I had no idea about any of the lives.
Speaker 1: They created all these teleprompters for me so I could
Speaker 1: read of them and then the camera will be moving
Speaker 1: in front of the telepromptering around, chasing the text. I
Speaker 1: got better over time, and then Anna was super switch.
Speaker 1: You're could have been nicer um to me and uh,
Speaker 1: and then she tells me at one point towards the end,
Speaker 1: she's like, you know, Roger, you improved so much during
Speaker 1: the shoot and you're doing so good. You're improvising incredibly well.
Speaker 1: And I look at her, was like, you don't have
Speaker 1: to tell me this. I don't need to be an actor.
Speaker 1: I'm not a good actor, and I need you to
Speaker 1: come home and just say, you know what, Swiss tourism,
Speaker 1: this was a fun at you had a great, a
Speaker 1: great time, and you don't need to tell me. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. It just needs to be good for you.
Speaker 1: I'm fine, don't worry. I can be terrible and I'm
Speaker 1: okay with terrible. You were great. You're a great ambassador
Speaker 1: for Switzerland. You're a great a great ambassador for the
Speaker 1: sports of tennis, and honestly you're you're a great ambassador
Speaker 1: for human beings. Thank you for everything you've done so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you any times to be It's love
Speaker 1: being here every single frost mother. I knew that the
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