WEBVTT - Come What May (Moulin Rouge) 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:05.040 And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:07.080 An iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.200 Welcome to you, and that's what you're the miss podcast. 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.880 We're just chomping away on our food. I was eating 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.880 a piece of sour dough with some cottage cheese on it. 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.920 Oh God, there's nothing else, there's nothing else to be at. 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.280 I hate cotton cheese so much, really, I love Oh 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.080 it grosses me out. I can't. I can't get that, 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:35.159 though I get it. Cottage cheese, sour cream, Oh, it 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:40.280 really goes along with those any sort of like bagel schmear? 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.879 What cream cheese? Cream cheese is the worst? Strong with you, 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.239 I can't do it. The older I get, the more 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.680 lactose intolerant I get, and the smell itself just makes me. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.479 I mean, I'm so hungry right now to eat any 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:54.280 of those things. 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:59.600 Well, I can't talk any of blueberries and dike especially. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.480 It's contradictory, but blueberries are so good for you. Okay, 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.479 Today is a very special day. Today is a very 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:08.200 special day. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.240 And I would just like to say that this is 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:15.880 a Christmas movie because it ends with snow and lights. 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.480 This is also an all year round movie for me, 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:24.440 it is a comfort film. I watched this all the time. 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:26.840 I can't believe this is a comfort film for you 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.040 because it is heavy. 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:33.520 It is heavy, but like most of it, like the music, like, 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.240 it's just very like the Newsy's is comfort for me, 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:40.240 Chicago's is comforting me. Mostly musical movies are comfort for me. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:45.600 You know what really gets Jena go in consumption. So 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:52.080 we're talking about the one and only Mulin Rouge. Very exciting, 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.840 incredible movie that came out June first, two thousand and one, 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:00.760 which is also two thousand and one. It's been happening 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.960 a lot this week in the dressing room at Spelling 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.320 b We've been listening to We've been visiting two thousand 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:12.120 and one a lot. Musically, Wow, what is musically Bump 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:17.400 Bump Bump by Beata k no no, I mean okay, 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.680 musically like literally the number one song in the country 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.079 at the time was Lady Marmalaye appropriate Christina Guiler Litt 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.920 Kim I Am Pink from this movie. The number one 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.760 movie was Pearl Harbor. Believe it or not, I saw it, yay, oh, 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.160 I saw it. Fun fact that I was in the 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:33.239 music video for it. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:34.920 You were. 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:41.440 Yeah, what the fatal music video that Michael Bay directed. 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:42.519 I did not know this. 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.040 How did you end up for that music video? 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.040 I had an agent in Texas and it was I 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:50.840 thought it was for the movie Pearl Harbor. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.760 That's even better. I booked with Michael bayfilm Yeah. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.640 And they're like, no, it's the Fat Till music video 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.840 even better, Okay. And so I was like an extra 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.320 in the music video and I was like a little 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.080 Newsy boy at like a little camp with my big years. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.680 Can we actually see you in that movie in music video? 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.959 Yes? I have it is like it's me and like 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:22.639 faith what and Michael Bay is like five feet from me? 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.160 I do not know directing me. I do not know this. Yeah, 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.880 it was really strange. I don't know how Like it 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.160 was also weird that he even directed the music video. 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.160 Yeah, but that's not so surprising. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.080 It was like my first time though, being on a 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.280 set like that because they had like the movie magic things. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.600 They had the posters on the side of the buildings 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:43.880 to make it look like the time period. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.560 And that's why he directed it, because he wanted to 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:46.240 look like the film. 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.600 Yeah, and it was and I remember like it was 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.720 going to be premiered on VH one, and I woke 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.760 up early to like wait for it to start being 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:54.560 played on VH one. 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:59.280 Very special, Kevin, I had idea about learned something new 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.200 every day. Okay, So here's a snapshot of some pop 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:03.800 culture from two thousand and one, since there was no 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.280 Glee News obviously, two thousand and one was dominated by 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:12.080 classic TV classics like Friends, which had just aired, Monica 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:17.800 and Chandler's Wedding. Huge Survivor was a national obsession still 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.840 kind of is She was like Gilmore Girls, Buffy, the 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:26.839 Vampire Slayer, West Wing sopranos were all divining, defining character 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.760 driven television was like the Golden Age of television if 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:34.320 you asked me, and then yeah, we had TRL like 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.440 MTV was a peak power rip MTV, I mean. 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.440 Yeah that was also like you had Brittany and Backshorye 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.640 and Sync releasing like huge things. So Tierro was it 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.599 Janet Jackson's All for You? Oh my god, I remember 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.239 when I think of that time, I remember Carson Dailey 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:55.320 interviewing Janet Jackson about that album on Tierro. So good, 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:56.680 so good. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.240 Pop culture was also fully and It's why to Hey 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:04.360 Glow Up? Era we had just we had survived two thousand. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.640 The world was gonna blow up and all the lights 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.839 were gonna go out. Rhinestones, glitter, makeup, meallic tops, low 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.440 rise jeans, flip phones, which charms you name. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.160 It feels like we're back there again. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.240 So it does I mean DVDs or like all the 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.719 rage It was just starting to take over VHS tapes, 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:30.680 which is wild. Blockbuster was still a thing. Blockbuster, for 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.200 those of you who don't know, it was a store 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.520 where you would go in and rent movies. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.120 What if you weren't a Blockbuster on a Friday night, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:46.720 you weren't living God that feeling your pjs walking to Blockbuster, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.440 holding that the sleeve would be there, hoping that there 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:51.640 would be a box behind it. 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.320 It was like a library, but for movies. God. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.440 Lots of celebrity couples benefer for the first time obviously, Yes, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:05.479 Brad and jan Yeah, Justin and Brittany. It was big, 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.440 big Did you do you okay? So let me ask 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.600 you a question. This was directed by boz Lehrman. Were 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:12.480 you a boz Lehmon fan? 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:13.560 Are you abouz Lermon fan? 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:20.160 Yes? Yes, and yes yes we too, absolutely big, big, big, 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:25.680 I mean, big bas Lemon fan, also objective. I think 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:31.000 about his movies, I think, mmmm, I think I'm way 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.600 with everything even you know, like Beyonce is my number one, 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.560 But I can still be objective. I think, yeah, pretty much. Yeah, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.000 I think you you always are. 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:43.720 Romeo and Juliet is on the top of my list, 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.160 is one of my favorite movies of all time. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.839 Mellen Roge is definitely on the top my top five 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:50.360 to ten movies of all time too. 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.039 I was thinking about baz Lehrman and how he does 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:57.400 sec does every movie he directs? Is every movie a musical? 0:06:58.760 --> 0:06:58.800 No? 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:03.600 No, yes, no, but it has a musical element, And 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.960 I think that's why I started doing all this research 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.800 at the bas Lehman whilst watching this movie, because I 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.000 was just like, what is the deal? Like where did 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:12.640 he come from? 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:13.480 Why? 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.160 Like why does he make am like this? Yeah, and 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.040 it makes completely sense, like he comes from the opera world, 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.200 like directing operas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. It all 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.800 makes and so music going into any baz Lemon movie, 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:41.320 music is used more as like a leading storytelling device. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:46.200 Obviously like score and music concept, tones and feelings, which 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.760 are super important for movies. His is almost even in 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:56.800 Romeo Juliet. It's another component to the script. It is 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.640 a character and it fully drives every scene. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.840 And that's why his musical movies do or this one 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.680 does so well, is because like. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:09.480 The character. 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.800 Well in this one in particular, like the music is 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.280 just so good on his own, but. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.880 The music, every piece of music that he includes, drives 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.760 the story or elevates the story, or brings it to 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.200 life in or brings it all around in this like 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.400 very encompassing, like stylistic way that like it all makes sense. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:34.920 It doesn't come out of nowhere. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:41.400 Even like when Youwan breaks into your song, my song, song, 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.160 your song, thank you, your song, He's like mah, and 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.439 like it's like that moment is there was no other 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.800 place for him to go but to break into song. 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.800 Well, I think the way the way Baz clearly appreciates 0:08:55.840 --> 0:09:00.240 and understands and like needs music, Yeah, in his story 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:05.360 telling makes it work almost all the time because I 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.920 mean he intentionally does this. I think in everything where 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.480 a lot of what he does are you know, is 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:14.040 a set and it's a period piece with modern music, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.280 and the way those two play against each other to 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.520 make us understand what's going and like put it in 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.719 today's like whatever, Like rome and Juliette. It was like 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:30.360 Radiohead is a Shakespeare's story, and so you're understanding where 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.640 those characters are at because of the songs that are playing, 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.439 totally more so than just some under than underscoring. And 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:43.439 but I think this movie, it's about damn time he 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.599 did like a musical musical, yeah right, yeah, And the 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.760 way he was able to use contemporary songs set in 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.599 eighteen ninety nine was just unmatched. So for those of 0:09:55.640 --> 0:10:01.040 you who don't know Mulan Rouge the official summary. Set 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.719 against the backdrop of a spectacular mul and rue show, 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.640 an idealistic young writer is drafted into a bohemian entourage 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.720 and falls in love with an ambitious but doomed showgirl 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.120 who was caught between the hero and a ruthless duke. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:21.000 Basloman also I think appreciates like classic stories, classic storytelling, 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:25.079 because I'm looking this up. This is sort of a 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:29.280 very loose reinterpretation of like the Orpheus and Euryticity. Yes, 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.720 like Journey and you have the Great Gatsby. He takes 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.360 on later, and he obviously did Romeo and Juliet And 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.280 so the way he sort of swings big in like 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:44.600 the classic yes storytelling moments, but he also like. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:49.559 There's just such an eclectic mix of his like inspiration 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:55.280 for this from like Hollywood musicals, cabaret culture, vaudeville, opera, Bollywood, 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:59.319 and he was in India studying researching how Bollywood films 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.200 like and all of it together. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:07.400 Right works like La bo m et cetera. It is 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.360 also like strange to me how Bollywood movies don't necessarily 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:16.079 really cross over here and being able to see, like 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.839 what you were saying, how Bollywood like can combine all 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.800 of these different genres into one movie and make it 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:26.199 spectacular and make it really heartfelt and have these like beautiful, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.880 grand and humble stories all in one thing. Like this 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:33.080 movie is very much all of those things, but done 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.120 in a very specific bas Leerman way. And what I 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.960 also love about bas Leerman and I think it works 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.280 in some movies better than others, is like Wes Anderson 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.800 or where that you know a bas le movie by 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.760 a single frame. They always have a certain look to them. 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.200 That's why I love I love both of them very much. 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.240 Mm hmm. It's I think it's so hard to like 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:02.800 have a really specific like movie or film language like that. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.240 Not everybody, not everybody has that and everybody needs that. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.560 But no, it's just you can tell he is bursting 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:11.439 into creativity. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:13.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, And he's not doing it just to 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.160 do it, like I think they're they're creators that like 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.680 could be out there that want to have that staple 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.360 of that luck or that thing. But this isn't just 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.719 for the sake of doing it. This has like a 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.800 very specific intention behind it, which is why. But it's 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.360 done so successfully. Yes, And he's like I think his 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.959 brain is just full of so much information and so 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.760 many different things that he loves that he wants. 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.440 To incorporate, so like breaking the. 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:45.040 Barriers of like it having to be one thing is 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:49.240 refreshing to have a musical movie with all of these 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:56.400 different pieces of other art forms and cultures and you know, 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.640 it's just everything it's like and things that have come before, 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:04.920 all the different works, Like it's very inspired, and it's 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.040 just it's I don't know, I think it's why it's 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.000 one of my favorites. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.360 Is like, uh, this like. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:18.400 Modern day contemporary music mixed with all these you know, 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.440 the things that came before, Like all these wonderful pieces. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:26.120 So this film premiered as the opening Nights selection it 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.120 can the Film Festival in two thousand and one, and 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.000 it received an enormous reaction. 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:36.719 Uh this, we also did it in Glee, so come 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:37.199 what may. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.880 One of our favorites was featured in season four episode 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.199 fifteen Girls and Boys in Film, performed by Curtain Blaine. 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.120 That was one of the songs. I was so sad 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:47.520 to be. 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:47.960 Yeah. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.400 I obviously did not fight for that, Like it makes 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.880 total sense for them. I loved how they did it, 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.400 but I was just like, oh man, I recently that 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.520 one missed opportunity. Yeah, I mean I was obsessed with 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.360 this movie. Jenna, Like, do you remember when this came out? 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.640 Oh yeah, Oh yeah, I remember. I think I was 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.920 like nervous to ask my parents to like take me 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.439 to the movie theater to see it. And I waited 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.920 until remember like the dollar movie theaters. Oh yeah, because 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:17.040 I had to be out for like a couple of 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:21.440 months or something. Yeah, And I remember I convinced my 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.920 mom and dad. I remember my dad was like, oh god, 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:25.720 it's a musical. I don't want to go see it. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.440 And I already had the soundtrack. I remember the smell 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.440 of the booklet of the CD with all the words 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.680 in it. I was o sacessed. And I remember sitting 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:42.000 there in that really the Dollar Theater and watched this 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:46.560 movie and I just I couldn't believe it. And also 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:51.000 it wasn't like my reaction was very different than Chicago, 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:57.920 because like Chicago is like the squeaky clean. It's fun, 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:00.960 you know, like it's it's glamour. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:07.480 Obviously it's style, but it's specific in like one lane, 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.600 like it's very clear where you're headed. 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:11.640 It's very clear what it is. 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:19.880 You know, run this, Yes, Lulan Rouge has everything going 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.840 like I feel like there's so many reasons why this 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.240 movie should not be gone wrong. Yeah, yeah, like it 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:30.160 should not work on every level. And when you get 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.040 to the end of it, I felt so uncomfortable for 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.840 so much of the movie because bas Lehman creates like 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:40.240 tension and like that weird awkward like am I about 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:44.560 to pass out? Feeling well if this spinny spinny? Yes, 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:46.640 And it's like so motion and the way he cuts 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:51.000 it edits a movie in the and like her, you know, 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.400 being sick and all that. I remember leaving this movie 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.360 feeling like I was sick, but I loved it. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.120 Let's just go through the casting a little bit before 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.880 we got talk more about this, Okay, So I had 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.440 no I didn't know this, but bos Lorman auditioned several 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:20.880 major actors, including Leonardo DiCaprio, obviously fresh off there, you know, 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:23.640 their film together Romeo and Juliet, one of my favorites. 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:28.240 And uh, Leo came in and read with Boz and 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.320 according to Lerman, the moment they tried singing together, it 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.840 immediately became clear that Leo could not sing this role. 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:35.800 This would have This is one of the things that 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.840 could have gone terribly wrong. I love Leo, but this 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.280 is just not it. So other actors were seriously considered. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.040 Heath Ledger, Jake Jillen Hall, Ethan Hawke, Jake Joon Hall 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:51.360 would have been great, but different like Ewan is you 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.600 McGregor is actually. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.400 It's it's beyond perfection. 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.920 I would not see this, and I think this is 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.359 why I've resisted the musical seeing the Broadway musical for 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.040 so long, because I know I would love it, and 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.040 I know that they obviously changed some of the music 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.480 and all the things. But I resisted this so terribly 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.639 because there's nobody else that could play Christian in my 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.600 mind other than you and a writor, and I don't 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:20.560 want to hear anybody sing it. 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.479 Talked about his powerful voice, and the thing is one 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.280 of the things where I think this movie should not 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:31.200 work and my eyes specifically should hate it. It's like 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:39.760 Ewan and Nicole aren't vocalists by any means, right, but 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:45.440 the Ewan's voice, the tone, the tone have goosebumps, and 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:49.760 also just his performance, it's so attached to his performance, 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.680 like there was no separation between you and speaking and 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:56.040 you and singing and the emotional through line between those things. 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.119 My singing voice, I think sounds quite different than my 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.480 speaking voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So as soon as I 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.320 start singing, like who is that? It just, yeah, it 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:08.479 sounds like Ewan's voice. His speaking voice is powerful and emotional. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.600 Obviously we know he's an incredible actor, like he had 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.320 already done train spotting by this point, Like, yeah, unbelievable. 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.640 He's amazing and so to be able to and that's 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.480 something you're just born with, Like your tone when you sing, 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.160 it is what it is. You can't change that. Yeah, 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:31.119 and the way he just like belts everything out is beyond. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.080 It evokes something in me. Also, he's like beautiful and 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.720 like it doesn't hurt that he was like the performance good. 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.639 He's gorgeous. He's gorgeous. Like he actually sounds good. The 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:41.440 tone is good. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:46.480 I actually sound gat. Yeah, it is great. This the 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.440 whole thing, the whole of the package is the whole 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:53.520 thing is just one hundred and ten percent. Like there's 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.480 nobody else. There's nobody else. 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:03.800 So he's just the vulnerability that he gives to Christian 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:05.840 is just outstanding. 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:09.960 You know, like fun fact also is so Nicole Kidman 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:15.040 got injured several times during this. She broke ribs, so 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.040 they were like filming things of her sitting down because 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.600 like she couldn't be walking around in the corset and things. 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:25.720 But because of that, things got delayed and they had 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.120 to move off of their stages because this whole set 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.600 everything was built right. Nothing was actually shot in Paris 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:36.120 at the right. It was in Australia and they had 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.840 to get off the sound stages because Star Wars was 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:41.639 coming into film and it's like you and McGregor is 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:46.200 in both of these things, like this is the height 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.399 of you and McGregor, like becoming a household name, and 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.760 I like, musicals have never been a popular thing to do. 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.840 Musicals have never been the cool thing to do. And 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.560 for Baz Lerman and Nicole Kidman and you and McGregor 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.800 just sign up, it was like a really big risk 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:09.359 and a really big swing. And I just love because 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.560 we know where their careers have gone since right, like 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.000 you McGregor was twenty eight when he was filming this, 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.679 Oh my gosh, and it's it's nice to see somebody 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.879 who did train spotting like several years earlier, Yeah, then 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.240 do this and right exactly. 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.440 Yeah, And Nicole Kidman has obviously had her career, which 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:32.000 like we all know, but this one felt different to me. 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:36.040 There was like an innocence and a softness to her 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:42.040 but yet like this wise woman that the performance was 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:46.040 like so open and so real raw, like she had 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.800 to love doing this. I cannot imagine her not loving 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.200 doing this. This is my favorite, Oh I know, And 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:56.919 I agreed, And like she's not a singer, but her 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:59.359 tone too for this, Like there's something about it that 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:02.040 is just so so magical that I love listening to. 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:04.800 This is one of my favorite things to ever listen to, 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:06.359 is the two of them together. 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.199 I don't know how she does not have a good 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:09.800 singing voice. 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:12.480 No, she objectively does not have a good singing voice, 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.119 but there's something about it that is so charming and 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.159 so satisfying that like, it doesn't matter to me. 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:21.440 I don't I really don't know. I think it's the 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.119 tone and like the breathiness that. 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:28.520 Because she's so good at acting. Yeah, maybe she's so 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:32.639 good I also Okay, So speaking of their singing voices, 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:36.080 I was wondering how they recorded these vocals, because, yes, 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:42.639 tell me how this movie is mixed. I think is 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:47.320 maybe the best I've seen because there is no sound difference, 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.760 and how they are speaking and how they are singing, 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.560 like the quality of what's going on. Obviously you can 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:57.480 tell these things. Some of them are at least most 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:01.119 of them or all of them were pre recorded, and 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:03.919 I was just like, how are they doing this? Because 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:10.359 that connection makes the emotional connection I think for us 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.280 as a viewer so much greater in a subtle way 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:15.119 that we don't even realize it, at least for me, 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:19.680 because it feels so defent. Well, it was a mix 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:22.400 of everything. It was. I think that's what I love 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:27.200 about I'm fascinated by Baz Luhrmann's a creative process because 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:32.560 this whole thing was one gigantic collaboration from all the departments. 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:34.440 Obviously every movie is like that, but what I mean 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:39.920 is like he was so involved in every single department that, 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:44.359 like post production in this was so much longer than 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:46.080 they thought it would be that they delayed the release 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:48.639 of the movie by six months. And I think that 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:52.280 is why it works so well. So, yeah, they pre 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:55.600 recorded everything, but then when it came time and they're 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:58.440 actually shooting things well, and they also did a full 0:22:58.520 --> 0:23:04.119 year of paperduction by the way, and so like they 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:07.440 knew the music so intimately and how it was going 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:09.359 to be used, but when they were actually filming it, 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:13.040 it's they still allowed for, oh, I think maybe this 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:18.359 vocal or this line should be filmed live, huh. And 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:22.160 because they also had like the whole rig on set, 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:25.880 like with pro tools and everything that they could move 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:30.160 around where the music was and so in the moment 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:33.000 they're like, oh, actually, if you sung this line a 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:36.080 little later or earlier, like they could do all of that. 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:38.760 And so some of those things are live, some of 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:41.920 them are pre recorded, and they just allowed it to 0:23:42.000 --> 0:23:44.360 happen and I think in post production mixing all those 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:46.399 things together, you get. 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:50.480 They had the availability to play and to fix and 0:23:51.040 --> 0:23:53.840