WEBVTT - Returning To The Arena With Gladiator’s Connie Nielsen 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.600 Oh God, I can't really tell you this story. 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.400 Uh, sh man, what's hand him? 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:06.560 Man? 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:10.160 You got more Shawn be Small Lynch, Doug Hendrickson. 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:10.559 And Gavin Newsome. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:12.680 And you're listening to politics. 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:14.520 You know to be, you known to be. 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:30.440 We got Connie Nielsen coming up. Who's Marshawn? She's been 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.159 in all kinds of stuff, from The Devil's Advocate to 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.519 movies with Robin Williams. But of course she was in 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.720 Gladiator twenty four years ago and is in Gladiator too, 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.159 and she's the maybe I mean, if not the dominant 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.239 character and Gladiator too, she's one of the dominant characters. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:50.880 And she's a dear friend and remarkable philanthropist and someone 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.880 has been out front on gender equality and she's got 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.120 her own nonprofit. She was, you know, and she was 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.480 an actress going back when she's very young and Mark 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.040 and as travel the world, speaks six or seven damn languages, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:04.880 one of those people. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:05.800 Uh. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:09.160 And so we're honored to have Connie Nielsen up next 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:10.800 on politic. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:23.959 Connie, how are you? 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:25.400 I'm good? How are you that? 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:26.559 I'm doing great? 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:29.320 You You are the hottest woman in town, in the 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.080 country right now with this movie how are you feeling 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:31.399 with it? 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.160 I don't feel super hot. I gotta tell you. I'm like, 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.200 I'm I guess I'm not dressing the part really like, 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:41.520 you know, just a sweater. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.920 Well, I got my mind, Marshaun, shirt on, don't get, 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.760 don't forget, you don't eat your chicken, and uh. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.080 I don't eat chick. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.200 So we're all dressed down, Connie, But no, thanks for 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:53.600 coming on really for Gab. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.560 Gab is as always like super well dressed. 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.800 I took my tie off for you. That shows my 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.360 respect for so is my respect. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:02.400 So's my respect. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:03.160 Well, it's good. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.400 Thank you by the way for joining us, because I 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.600 wasn't joking. You've been, I've seen, I've turned on. I'm like, 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.480 what the hell you're in Australia, You're you know, all 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.000 over obviously all of the United States, but around the 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.960 rest of the world with this sort of next level 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:22.480 blockbuster Gladiator too, and and and a movie that obviously 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.200 doesn't need any introduction, a movie that's so indelible in 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:29.200 our lives twenty four years ago. Uh and you had 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.200 you had a significant role then. But Connie, I was 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.320 sitting there with your son watching this movie. We just 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.240 coincidentally went to one of the shows. He was sitting 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.520 behind me and literally, I don't know, I haven't even 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.280 told you this. I turned around. I'm like, I didn't know. Shot, Like, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.600 you're like the one of the mate. You're you're not, 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:49.720 You're not just in the movie. You're like foundationally rushing 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.280 to medium. It was next level part uh, And you 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.560 didn't give me any warning about that? But was that? 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.960 I mean, honestly, did you expect that role to grow 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.040 in such a prominent and significant way? Did you expect 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.000 when you got that script that you would be such 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:10.000 a significant player in the remake or the second iteration? 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.040 You know, it's so funny because you know, my memory 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.680 of the first one is of course that I'm super 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:20.680 central to I know, but not as And it's like 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.000 the Rosencranz and Guildenstern thing, you know, which is where 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:29.200 you know, this incredible play where you know, these two 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.200 side characters and Hamlet, you know, think of themselves as 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.720 the main characters in their own play. And so I'm 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.280 one of those actors. I always think I'm the main character. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.800 But was it? I mean, it is, I mean it is. 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.680 It's a remarkable movie because just the ability to take 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.720 something that was you know, almost perfect, that's twenty four 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:57.720 years old, with so much expectation, and actually match that 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.960 expectation and exceed it. That's a risk in it of itself, 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.040 just be participated. There's been a lot of great flops, 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.800 and there are the Number two movies, but this isn't 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.760 one of them. And I did you know that right 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.960 when you saw that script or you just knew that 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.800 before you even got the script because of the team 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:17.640 that was assembled. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:22.279 I mean I wasn't sure about the script frankly until 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:26.480 I read it. It seemed like an impossible task to 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.760 create such a you know, a story that could actually 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.320 measure itself next to the original. And as you said, 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.039 like there was a lot of love for that first film, 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.400 and I think people were worried that we were going 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.880 to come and ruin it. And what we've had is 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:46.520 like so many people who have literally said, like, I 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.760 actually think I preferred this one to the first one, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.640 and so there's a lot of love for both glading 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.359 it just that's for sure. And you know, I was 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:59.240 definitely worried and then I read the script and I realized, no, 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.960 you know, this is it's a really great story, So 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:04.720 you know, I was excited to start it. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:06.000 I love it. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.120 Well, Connie, take me through when you're done with it, 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.599 because obviously we have another buddying movie star here with 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.280 Marshaun who's. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.680 Now in entertainment. But take me through when you're done. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.760 It seems like that Gavin said, you've been on every 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.560 continent at premiers every place, and you've been at the 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.960 Grand Prix in Vegas. You've been or f One. You've 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.400 been everywhere. How's that the last three and a half 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.279 we spend you've been on the road, interviews every place. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:30.960 Has that just been nuts in terms of what you've 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:31.560 been doing for it. 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.240 I've been on the roads for six weeks and if 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.080 I tell you like my itinerary, you will faint. I mean, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:43.560 it's diffinite, it's crazy, But it's also been kind of amazing, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:48.560 you know, to premiere the film in Sydney, in Tokyo, 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:53.520 in Paris, and Copenhagen in London, Los Angeles, New York, Like, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:58.240 it's been pretty crazy to meet with the fans in 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:02.120 so many different locations since see them be so excited 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:07.520 about the film and frankly also about my character. Like 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.880 just a lot of people have just shown Lucilla a 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.480 lot of love and it's just been beautiful. 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.640 And I'm curious, Connie, just with you know, the experience 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.840 you had twenty five years ago, and you're out imagine 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.080 a version of a world tour. 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:25.160 Is this? 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.919 I mean, is it? I think it was Marcus Aurelius 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.360 who sort of the the and the og of this 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.039 the first film. He said, you never walk in the 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.560 same river twice, not because the river's changed, because you're changed. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.159 And twenty four years later you're a very different person. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.880 The maturation of your character gave you that ability as 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.520 well to bring that to life. And it's it's it. 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.320 That's what was so wonderful for me to watch, just 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.119 in terms of knowing you, which is always strange knowing 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.000 someone and then seeing them on screen, but how you 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.479 can just see your joy and try to bring that 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.680 complexity and that maturation to the character to life and 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.200 have I thought, just more room to run with that. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.039 But what was just the experience of being back out 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:09.040 there in from a global perspective? Was it? I mean, 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.400 was it the same river twice or was it something 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:12.440 even more extraordinary? 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:13.040 No? 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.240 In fact, I think I used that precise take on 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.920 it that you know that you in fact can't going, 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.360 you know, walk into the same river twice, because the 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:27.679 river has changed, and so have you, you know, I've changed, 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:32.840 and even like the Roman Empire that we're talking about 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:36.120 has changed. And that was what was so interesting for me, 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.920 because I really just put myself in the place of Losilla. 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.640 What would it have been like for Loscilla had she 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:51.920 had this experience of being like the daughter of Marcus Aurelius, 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:56.000 And you know, Marcus Aurelius had presided as the fourth 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.600 emperor in a lot, in a line of four emperors 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:05.000 in a row, eighty years of unprecedented growth and like 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:11.320 positive governance of this empire. And even so, you know, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:16.440 we've cast Lucilla as a as a republican who continues 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:21.000 to believe that ultimately, you know, freedom for the people 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:25.720 is the only truth that they really can you know, 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:31.040 push for, you know, no matter how benevolent this dictatorship 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.600 has been, well, not quite the dictatorship, but this emperor 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.720 position has been for Rome. And we see why, right 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:44.000 because after Commatist dies, you have a series of horrible 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.400 rulers of Rome, and it must have been incredible for 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:52.079 people who still remembered the Golden Age at that time, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.319 to go back to to to look at what had 0:08:55.360 --> 0:09:01.559 happened to their once proud, sort of shining example of 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:07.360 a democracy, a democracy, you know, different from our terms, 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:11.480 but in their terms of democracy back then in twenty years. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.160 You know, you have a moment when our film starts 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:20.280 where the Praetorian Guard is basically just selling, auctioning off 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:25.360 more or less the position of emperor to the highest bidder. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.240 It's a sad state. And I imagine what it must 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:28.800 have been like to. 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:34.120 Watch that, Marshaan, were you familiar? I mean, it's interesting. 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:39.960 Everybody's now looking up Stoicism and everybody's learning about Marcus Aurelius, 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:45.079 learning about one of the most significant works of literature, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:50.679 just deep human understanding meditations, and people that have read 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.480 it maybe are rereading it today and picking up more 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.400 contemporary cues. But I'm curious, Marshaan, you ever heard of 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.080 Marcus Aurelius the most powerful man in the world? 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.480 Rome, No, I haven't. 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.880 But you saw Gladiator, right, you saw the first one, right? 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.840 Yeah, I've seen it like I've seen it a while ago. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.880 So I mean, you know, and I haven't seen part 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.520 two yet, and only because I haven't been able to 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.280 sit down, Like I want to go and watch part 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.640 one before I go and get in to two, just 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.120 so I can make sure. Yeah, I mean there's nothing 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.240 that I'm miss so you know, I mean, when I 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.200 get the time to sit down, I'm going check that out. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:34.840 I do want to say, Machean, you don't have to 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.560 watch number one because the number two actually just stands 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.240 alone on its own. It does, and you kind of 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.839 even even if you haven't seen number one, you can 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.599 go in and kind of understand from the beginning what 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:52.319 has happened as a preamble to number two. So I 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.360 just want to say, if you want to catch it 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.720 while it's still up on the big screen, I would 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:01.360 definitely go do that, just because seeing that film on 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:05.479 the biggest screen possible is really worth it. 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.760 Okay, Well, I'm one of them dudes that like the 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.120 If I want to watch something, I like the like 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.880 the bands watch So you know, I mean being able 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:14.520 to go and you know, I mean check one out, 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.080 then go shit down there and watch two. I think 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:18.080 that'll be But we. 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.040 Should make like the double screening somewhere. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.240 Right, you can make that happen. 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:26.800 I'm gonna make it all. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.200 Denzel seems like the coolest dude in the planet. Like 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.880 I've never met him, it seems like the coolest dude 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.120 that anybody would want to meet anywhere. Is he that 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:36.640 good of a guy, that cool of a guy. 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.080 I mean, it was so sweet because when we were 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.800 doing the press tour for our film, he was also 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:44.680 doing a press tour for a film that he's done 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:50.640 with his kids that's called The Piano Lesson and it's 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.280 gotten great reviews. And you've just never seen a prouder dad, 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:59.280 Like literally so excited to tell us about this new film. 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.240 And he was so out of having, you know, done 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.640 this film not just with his two sons, but also 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.040 with his daughters in this film, and so it's an 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.840 exciting thing for him. It's an exciting moment for him. 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.600 You know. I think he's he's kind of thinking of 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.000 winding down his career a little by little, and I 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.679 think having had this moment of shooting with his family 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.160 made him just especially proud. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.439 No, but did you guys, I mean it must have 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:33.320 had conversations over the years about the prospect of making 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.280 number two, right, this didn't come out of the woodwork. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:40.440 Was Denzel always? I mean, did they did the Ridley Scott, 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.719 Did they have Denzel in mind for a decade or 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:44.720 so for this role. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:49.000 I mean, Ridley had already done one movie, American Gangster 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:53.120 with Denzel and and so I think you know, when 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:57.400 he wrote the character of Macronus, who also was historically 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.880 you know, he's also part of the history book, then 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:06.160 I think he automatically had Denzil in his mind. 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.880 It's good and I mean obviously, look, I mean the 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.760 epic nature of everything released Guy's ever done. But you've 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:15.480 talked a lot about as you've been on the road, 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.000 watched a few of your interviews, the nature of technology 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.800 now and what he's able to bring to life with 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.960 his quality of imagination because the technology allows him to 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:30.600 scale that and generate in real time, the ability to 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.720 make magic. I mean, I imagine a lot of that 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:34.880 you anticipated, you may have seen or read in the 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.760 script itself or felt, but when you saw it up 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:42.160 there on screen, when everything came together, what was that 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:42.800 like for you? 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:48.520 I mean, he he does use technology a lot, but 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:53.800 everything that you need to see he actually builds in 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:59.679 real life. So you know, he had created an animatronic rhinoceros. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:05.640 For the big Rhinoceros fight scene. There were real boats 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:11.320 for the boats seeing, though not real water. So it's 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:15.120 just like, what what the technology allows him to do 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:19.920 is to just reach a whole new level of effects 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.240 that I don't think anyone has put on the screen yet, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.040 you know, not not to this level. 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:26.800 Uh. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:31.560 And and it's uh, it's just he just loves uh technology, 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.680 especially because it just allows him to, you know, whatever 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.360 comes into his mind as a vision, he can make 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:40.760 it appear. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:41.480 You know. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:42.240 It's incredible. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:44.720 Yeah, Marshaun, You've got to go see it tonight. It 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.600 is absolutely amazing. And again, Connie, I was with Gavin 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:49.680 when your son was there watching as well too, and 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:50.520 I was mind blown. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.600 It was just unbelievable. But let me ask you a question. 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:56.120 I've always been admired, admired you as a person and 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.960 everything you've done, as far as the philanthropy work, uh, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.560 you know, working in movies and whatnot. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:04.160 How have you been so grounded? 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.040 I mean, you've got your great mother, You've been phenomenal 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.000 everything you do, and you've lived away from kind of 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.040 la and you've done it kind of your own terms 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.680 and I've really admired how you've done it because you've 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.640 taken the roles you want to take. You work when 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.000 you want to work. Everything you've done is hit and 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.240 been like blockbuster stuff, which has been great, and you've 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.000 done it in a very cool way in your own terms, 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.560 and I really appreciate that. So is that that's not 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.320 normal in Hollywood, and you've been doing this for a 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:30.040 long long time. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.040 It is kind of funny. When I'm home in Denmark, 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.359 people call me like a Hollywood star. I go like 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.800 like I would get lost if you put me in 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:41.560 the middle of Hollywood and asked me to go somewhere 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.000 because I'm without my phone, because I have no idea, 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.960 I don't know the place like whatsoever. And it is 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.120 strange for me when I do go to La because 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.760 I've really don't know very many people there. I'm just 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.720 as much a tourist as anybody who goes there, you know. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:02.800 But I have lived the kind of life that I prefer. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:08.360 I am sort of someone who just likes to be 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:12.720 with my friends and with my family and too, like 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:18.120 I don't know outside of my work, you know, do 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:23.560 like a real life, like living with real people who 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.400 live normal lives, you know, And I guess you could 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:31.440 say that. You know, the Bay Area is very privileged 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:37.800 in many many ways, and there are all kinds of 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.560 people here, and I know we have our own set 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.920 of problems in terms of like the high living costs 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.960 that's forcing a lot of those normal people out of 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:51.680 the Bay Area. But that notwithstanding, I just have loved 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.560 living here and building a life here for my kids. 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:55.680 For sure. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.280 But Connie, when did you come out to California? I 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.480 mean you, when do you leave Denmark? And then when 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:02.960 at what age did you end up out here in California. 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:08.000 So I've lived a lot of sort of weird chapters 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:13.080 on the way here. I lived in Paris from eighteen 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:18.080 to twenty one and did my first movie as soon 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.480 as I arrived in Paris where I was staying with 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.600 my uncle, And I literally did my first movie at 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:28.000 eighteen there with Jerry Lewis as my co star. I 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.720 was eighteen, he was fifty eight I think, and had 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.760 just had open heart surgery and showed me I remember 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.160 the scar that went from here down to here. And 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.520 it was just before having my first film Kiss at 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.400 eighteen with a much older man. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.280 Wow, that's a whole other podcast right. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:49.639 There, right, and then I went to Italy where I 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.040 went to I did a acting school in Rome, and 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.679 I had my first kid there. Lived in Italy for 0:17:55.720 --> 0:18:01.000 ten years, loved, loved, loved living in Italy, and then 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:05.560 I moved to New York in ninety six. Did my 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.760 first movie in America there literally two months after moving 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.320 to New York, which was The Devil's Advocate, And it 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:16.400 was quite a thing for me to land in New York, 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.520 put my kid into the Italian school, and then go 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:24.560 to work, you know, on a rooftop above Central Park 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:31.040 with al Pacino and Keanu Reefs in my first scene. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:33.400 That was the first scene. 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.159 Well, Conlie, how so before you got to eighteen, so 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.040 in thirteen fourteen fifteen, you were doing acting and you 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:40.760 told your parents to listen, I want to go do this, 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.760 and then you find an agent then in Denmark and 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:45.720 then they found this role for you in Paris or 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.640 how'd you get there to begin? 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:52.760 No, I was like, I was living in this tiny city, 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.600 village actually outside of a city, a small city in 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:02.120 the very top northern Denmark, and I told my mom, 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:07.120 like I started doing acting next to her, she had 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.640 a review and variety show in the summer that did 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:14.760 political comedy show sketches, and I did my first scenes 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.440 with her at fifteen and sixteen, and then I told 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.200 her that that was what I wanted. And my grandmother 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.760 had a cousin living in Paris, but we had no 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:28.639 one living in Copenhagen, and so it just was easier 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:30.359 for me to go to Paris than it was to 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.880 go to Copenhagen. And when I got to Paris, I 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.399 met a girl in the subway who was American. She 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.840 asked me to dinner. I came to dinner. Next to 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:44.240 me was sitting a producer. The producer asked me if 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.600 I wanted to ask me what I was doing in Paris, 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:53.119 and I said, I'm an actress and then he and 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:57.120 then he asked me, oh, what's your background. I told him, well, 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.159 I've been doing these political review shows with my mom 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.520 for the past three years. And he was like, well, 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:07.080 would you like to audition for this role young girl 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.679 in a in a comedy And I was like sure, 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.440 And literally three days later I went to the studio 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.440 at the audition for the role, got the role, and 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.680 it's there where I just want to say I could 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:24.840 speak French because I had had I had done seven 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:30.280 grades of French in high school because our teacher had 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.840 this small group of girls, like seven girls to teach 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:37.040 French to and was obsessed with it, and so he 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:41.639 taught us how to read and write fluently in French. 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:45.080 So I spoke fluent French when I got there. And 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.600 so I realized, as I'm telling my story that I've 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.520 had sort of like a forced gump like kind of 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:57.280 life where I've just happened to you know, you know, 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.880 but you know, I don't know, like sort of back 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:06.240 my way into something rather than sort of forging ahead 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:08.080 of it. Does that make sense? 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:09.119 A hundred percent? 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:12.560 Take me through the Uh, the guy's a gladiator. I mean, 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.280 who was the toughest gladiator to those two guys? 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:17.560 I can't really say because I would give it away. 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.639 We don't want more sean she happens, do you know 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:21.080 what I mean? 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:21.439 Right? 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.159 But I can reveal that one of them is my 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:29.640 son and the other one is my husband. And so 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:31.960 you're putting a woman in a hard place. Who is 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:33.760 she going to choose her husband or her son? 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:35.359 Like there you go, there you go? 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:37.960 I like nine out of ten times it's the sun. 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:40.480 But that's just you know, that's not wrong. 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.679 No, it is Pedro Pascal. So it is a hard choice. 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:57.399 I gotta say. 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.040 By the way, if you I curious, have you talked 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:03.479 to Russell about this new movie? Do you guys like 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:06.560 compare notes? Is he a fomo that he's not in it? 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:07.720 Oh? 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:13.120 God, I can't really tell you this story. I did 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:19.960 text him picture of me and Paul and said look 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:29.840 our son and uh, and he didn't think it was funny. 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:33.840 That's interesting, But that's good. 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:36.080