Nice to see you again.
How are you?
Good.
How are you doing?
Great dress.
Houston, this is mission specialist Ryan Stone.
I am off structure and I am drifting.
Do you copy?
It's so exciting to talk to you again, Sandra.
Nice to see you.
I'm really happy you're here today.
So you were floating in space with George Clooney, alone.
I'm sure a lot of women envy you.
I think they do.
And with good reason- very good reason.
You've been friends for a long time, right?
Yes.
He is probably one of the most fun people to be around.
If there's ever a moment that you think, you know,
work is hard and then he arrives on set,
and everything becomes hard work,
but with a lot of joy attached.
He brings the party.
Your character has such an interesting story.
And I think you had to go to very dark places to bring
that across.
Yeah.
Where did you take that from?
You know, it's just- this film was odd because you were always
in some contraption that limited your ability to act.
It's like everything was mathematical,
and industrial, and technological.
And you have to just dig.
We built a character, and then you just had to dig deep.
A lot of times I had to rely on music.
That's all I had was a little ear piece in my ear,
and then everything else was silent
because of what I was wearing.
And Alfonso had all this music that I got to pick from,
and sounds.
And I went with the sound guy, and I said,
these pieces of music make me feel certain things.
So if I'm stuck I'm going to ask you to play certain elements.
At least wake you up inside, when I just
wanted to kill every one, because you
had nothing to help you.
So I had music, which I got from my parents.
Did you feel more pressure than on other films,
because it was you, like 90% of the movie.
It was just you.
I know I should have.
And I do now that everyone's bringing it up.
I didn't then, because what was so much bigger
was the technology that was working.
We had four sound stages with massive robotic arms
and contraptions, and mathematical equations,
and things that we had to do to be safe,
and so many people involved, that you never
felt like it was you.
It was all the technical geniuses
were the lead actors in this film.
This was their baby.
You're just a part of the machine
that's helping tell the story.
You never think-- I never thought for one second,
oh my gosh, it's just me, and I better not screw up.
I always think that about myself.
I always am hard on myself.
I'll be harder than anyone else is.
And I would leave every day feeling so disappointed
in my work, because I didn't know if I accomplished anything
for what Alfonso needed.
There was nothing to show me.
It was the strangest thing.
So I spent three months not feeling great about myself,
but that's only because I wanted to do so well for Alfonso.
And now are you happy when you saw the movie?
Oh my gosh.
The movie was so beautiful.
I'll never be happy with my work.
That's just what we do.
We pick ourselves apart.
But I didn't see myself when I saw
the movie for the first time, which was in Venice.
I didn't see me.
I saw this visual painting, and these sounds, and the music.
And I got to be a part of the story
that he was telling, that I'd never seen before.
It put you in it physically, that I'm
sure after I see it several times
then I'll start picking myself apart,
but there's so much to see before you
get to me in this movie that it just- I
was able to see a movie for the first time
and enjoy it, rather than dissect it.
After such a long day of shooting
where you are in constant danger of life,
what do you do to keep down?
You go and you go find a little one-and-a-half-year-old.
And you squeeze and you hug, and you run like a child, and
I had never been so happy to be outside.
And you just have fun.
It's like, you just-
It reminded me that literally life is meant to be enjoyed.
And once your confined, and you're
in such a dark head space all the time,
you literally-- it feels like someone's unlocking you.
And I couldn't get outside fast enough.
I could run fast enough.
I couldn't wait for the weekends, where
you could be in grass and playing outside.
It just-- it made you feel like a child
again, because as an adult we get- I think
we just get bogged down with worry,
and trying to control things that, just in the end,
just don't matter.
Thank you so much.
And by the way, last time we met,
you mentioned your little son.
And you told me that he liked gummy bears that much.
Oh my god.
He and his mother like Gummibärchen.
So I brought some for him and for you.
Oh my gosh.
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