>> LOOK AT THIS.
>> James: JEFFREY WRIGHT, JEFFREY WRIGHT, EDGAR WRIELT, IT
IS QUITE THE FAMILY REUNION, ISN'T IT.
>> ARTHUR AND WILBUR.
>> James: THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.
>> I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU SINCE THE LAST FAMILY REUNION.
YOUR FRIED CHICKEN WAS FANTASTIC, UNREAL.
>> James: NOW I'M SO PLEASED TO HAVE YOU BOTH HERE.
I'M SUCH A FAN OF BOTH OF YOU.
NOW JECH REE, YOU-- JEFFREY, ARE YOU CONSIDERED INCLUDING MYSELF
ONE OF THE SHALL SHALL YOU SAT HERE WITH ONE OF BEST DIRECTORS
IN THE WORLD WHAT DO YOU AS SUCH AN ESTABLISHED AND ESTEEMED
ACTOR, WHAT MAKES A GREATS DIRECTOR?
>> IF THEY ARE NOT AN ASS.
FIRST AND FOREMOST.
THAT ALWAYS HELPS.
AND THEN BEYOND THAT, IT IS REALLY ABOUT LEADERSHIP, I FIND.
YOU KNOW, A GOOD DIRECTOR IS A GOOD LEADER.
AND COMMUNICATES THAT LEADERSHIP NOT ONLY TO THE AUDIENCE THROUGH
THE VISION OF THE FILM BUT ALSO TO THE CREW AND THE ACTORS.
AND IT IS REALLY ABOUT CLARITY OF COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP
I THINK THAT DISTINGUISHES A GREAT DIRECTOR.
>> James: DO YOU STILL GET SORT OF, FOR WANT OF A BETTER
PHRASE FIRST NIGHT NERVES BEFORE THE FIRST NIGHT, BEFORE THE
FIRST DAY SHOOTING DO YOU STILL HAVE A SORT OF PANICKY FEELING
OF LIKE OH MY GOD, TOMORROW MORNING EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE
LOOKING TO ME?
>> I GET THAT ON THE WAY TO TWORK EVERY MORNING.
>> James: DO YOU REALLY WITHIN I ALWAYS HAVE THOSE BUTTERFLIES
AND STUFF.
I THINK THEY ARE PROBABLY THE THING THAT KEEPS ME GOING.
THAT YOU KNOW, THE THOUGHT OF GOING IN THINKING I'M NOT SURE
WHETHER WE CAN PULL THIS OFF TODAY.
KEEPS YOU KIND OF ON YOUR TOES.
>> BECAUSE SPEAKING WITH THE ACTOR I FEEL THAT BEFORE EVERY
JOB, THAT I MAY NOT PULL IT OFF.
SO YEAH, IT'S GOOD, GOOD TO BE REASSURING.
>> James: YEAH, NERVES ARE GOOD.
JEFFREY, THIS IS A HUGE MONTH FOR YOU WITH THE FRENCH DISPATCH
AND NO TIME TO DIE, BOTH IN THEATERS.
AND EDGAR, YOU ARE A PASSIONATE MOVIE GOER.
YOU LOVE GOING TO THE CINEMA, HAVE YOU SEEN THESE FILMS YET?
YOU HAVE SEEFN BOND.
>> I HAVE NOT SEEN-- I HAVE SEEN BOND TWICE, I WAS AT THE
PREMIER.
>> THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE.
>> IT IT WAS A FOUR ROYALLER.
>> James: A QUAD ROYALLER A BATTLE ROYALE.
>> AND ACTUALLY THAT WAS AMAZING BECAUSE TERRY SAY FRIEND OF MINE
AND I WAS A EXCITED TO SEE THE MOVIE, THE DIRECTOR.
AN I DID SEE IT TON A SATURDAY MORNING, IN FIRST WEEKEND AND IT
IS ABSOLUTELY PACKED AND IT WAS LIKE THERE WAS A LINE AROUND THE
BLOCK.
I HADN'T SEEN A QUEUE AS WE CALL TRK A HADN'T SEEN THAT FOR SUCH
A LONG TIME.
AND IT WAS THE STRANGE THING IS THAT EVEN THIS THING, I GOT A
BIT EMOTIONAL PACKED HOUSE EVEN THE THINGS THAT SLIGHTLY ANNOY
ME ABOUT THE CINEMA EXPERIENCE MADE ME A BIT MISTY EYES, SO
EVEN SEEING THE COMMERCIALS AND SEEING THE MRK & M COMMERCIAL, I
WAS LIKE I MISSED YOU, FRIEND.
ODDION GIFT CARD, I MISSED IT SO MUCH.
I WAS GETTING EMOTIONAL EVEN BEFORE THE MOVIE.
>> James: THE BOND PREMIER LOOKED INCREDIBLE.
YOU WERE ONE OF THE ONLY AMERICANS WHAT I LIKE TO CALL AN
AMERICAN IN THE BOND CAST, THE FRANCHISE, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF
THE HYPE THAT SURROUNDS THOSE MOVIES IN THE U.K.?
>> I MEAN IT'S OBVIOUSLY A BRITISH, VERY BRITISH THING.
AND THE SENSE OF OWNERSHIP, THAT IS REALLY EXCITING.
THIS IS MY THIRD BOND FILM, SO THE FIRST TWO PREMIERS WERE IN
LESTER SCIER AND SUCH A HUGE THRONG OF PEOPLE AND THEY GET
THE SENSE OF KINSHIP WITH THE THING.
THIS ONE WAS AT ROYAL ALBERT HALL.
>> IT WAS HUGED.
>> IT WAS FILLED TO THE GILLS.
AND YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY, MY KIDS ARE DUAL CITIZENS SO YOU KNOW, I
HAVE GOT A FOOT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC SO YOU KNOW, I'M
MORE OR LESS AT HOME EVEN THOUGH ONE OF THE LONE AMERICANS.
>> AND HOW WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE MEETING THE ROYAL FAMILY?
>> I LIKE TO REMIND MYSELF BEFORE MEETING THEM THAT WE ASK
WIN THE WAR.
SO THERE IS THAT.
AS FAR AS THE WHOLE DIFFERENCE AND ALL OF THAT, YOU KNOW, KEEP
THAT IN MIND.
BUT ACTUALLY I FOUND THEM TO BE KIND OF ALARMINGLY KIND OF DOWN
TO EARTH IN SOME WAYS.
AND I TELL YOU WHAT, THE FIRST ONE WE DID CASINO ROYALE, THE
QUEEN WAS THERE, THERE IS NOT A BIGGER JAMES BOND FAN IN THIS
WORLD THAN QUEEN ELIZABETH.
SHE WAS RAPPED.
>> James: REALLY.
>> THAT IS HER FUY, YOU KNOW.
THAT IS MY GUY.
AND I MEAN SHE, I THINK SHE LITERALLY SAID THAT AT ONE
POINT.
BUT YEAH, SHE WAS JUST EN-- ENTHRALLED WITH THE FILM.
I WATCHED THE FILM AND KIND OF, I WAS SITTING LIKE A COUPLE
OF-- DANIEL WAS SITTING NEXT TO ME AND SHE ON THE OTHER SIDE AND
I WAS WATCHING THE FILL FILM AND SHE WAS GRITTING HER TEETH, YOU
KNOW, THAT BOND IS HER GUY, YEAH.
>> James.
>> I WASN'T IN THAT ONE SO-- THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN-- .
>> James: YOU'VE GOT QUITE A GOOD TAKE ON WHO YOU THINK OR
WHAT KIND OF BOND SHOULD BE THE NEXT JAMES BOND, EXPLAIN YOUR
THEORY.
>> YOU SEE A LOT OF THE CASTING KIND OF RUMORS AND STUFF, I
THINK DANIEL MADE SUCH AN INDELIBLE MARK ON THE FRANCHISE
WITH HIS BOND THAT SOMETIMES SOME OF ACTOR COME OUT AND FEEL
LIKE THE SAME THING AGAIN.
I ALWAYS LIKE, AND MAYBE THIS IS BECAUSE I GREW UP WITH ROGER
MOORE I THINK YOU HAVE TO ALTERNATE BONDS THIS IS MY
THEORY TRK IS OKAY TO HAVE BOND WITH A LITTLE BIT OF A WING SO
MY THEORY IS IT SHOULD GO DARK CHOCOLATE MILK CHOCOLATE, SEAN
CONNERY DARK CHOCOLATE, ROGER MOORE MILK CHOCOLATE.
AND DANIEL CRAIG, DARK CHOCOLATE, GOT TO HAVE A SWEET
TASTING WICING AT THE CAMERA BOND.
THAT IS MY PITCH.
I'M NOT SAYING IT IS ME.
>> James: WHO IS THAT PERSON.
>> I DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T HAVE THAT ENA, THAT WAS JUST MY THEORY.
>> JAMES, ARE YOU BUSY?
>> James: I HONESTLY, WHEN BARBARA CALLED ME I WAS VERY
OPEN WITH HER ABOUT, I UNDERSTOOD WHY SHE WOULD ASK THE
QUESTION.
I JUST FELT I'M NOT-- I DONE THINK I'M WRITE BECAUSE I TULLY
THINK I'M SORT OF, I'M MR LIKE A CHOCOLATE BUTTON, A REESES
PIECES.
>> LET'S START IT NOW.
JC FOR JB.
>> James: I DON'T THINK SO.
I DON'T THINK SO.
LOOK, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT-- JEFFREY, CONGRATULATIONS
ON THE FRENCH DISPATCH, CAN I NOT WAIT TO STEE THE FILM.
I AM A HUGE FAN, THIS IS YOUR FIRST WHERE WES ANDERSON MOVIE
AND HE SAYS, AND I CONSIDER THIS MAYBE AS HIGH AN HONOR AS YOU
CAN GETS A FILM ACTOR, HE WROTE THIS PART ESPECIALLY FOR YOU,
TELL US WHO YOU PLAY AND WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO GET THAT CALL.
>> YEAH, I MEAN, IT WAS A WONDERFUL GIFT.
IT IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SCRIPTS THAT I HAD READ.
IT IS A STORY ABOUT A GROUP OF WRITERS IN A FICTIONAL TOWN IN
FRANCE IN THE '50S WHO WERE WRITING FOR MAGAZINE CALLED THE
FRENCH DISPAP.
IT IT SENDS DISPATCHES BACK FROM FRANCE TO THE UNITED STATES AND.
I PLAY A WRITER NAMED ROBUCK WRIGHT WHO IS KIND OF LOOSELY
BASED IN SOME WAYS ON LITTLE JAMES BALDWIN, A LITTLE AJ
LEADLING WHO WAS A FOOD CRIT ECK FORTH NEW YORKER, MAYBE A LITTLE
BIT OF TIMOTHY WILLIAM, A MICK OF VARIOUS WRITERS WHO
ASSOCIATED WITH "THE NEW YORKER."
AND HE WRITES PRIMARILY ABOUT FOOD BUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS
ASSIGNMENT WHEREBY HE IS GOING TO INTERVIEW ONE OF THE GREATEST
CHEFS IN THE TOWN WHO HAPPENS TO WORK FOR THE POLICE COMMISSIONER
MAYHEM, AN HIS STORY GUESS IN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT DIRECTION.
>> James: I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE IT.